Toxic Clean Room: Enter at Your Own Risk

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Cattle ranching is an honorable way of life.
Not many families are keeping this way if life.
It is demanding and tough on the body and mind.
Thanks to the heartless search for energy profits,
mining profits, manufacturing profits, the weather
is dangerously unpredictable. The last ten years have
damaged the well being of family ranchers. Death of
livestock, because of a damaged ecology. Drought,
extreme weather, unreasonable weather. High costs,
for everything.

(The billionaires are buying. Ask the Koch brothers.)

The resulting destruction and pollution has caused an imbalance in the equilibrium
of the Earth's weather systems.

An Asshole becomes a cultural hero, and reflects badly on honorable ranchers-

Cliven Bundy ripped into low-income Americans for collecting government subsidies at the same time that he was stiffing the government of $1 million in back grazing fees."

"Since then, only a handful of articles have called out the rest of his public-lands ranching brethren for the hand-outs they receive. The mainstream media acts as though all that welfare ranching stuff disappeared with Bundy’s armed rebellion."

February 12, 2015

Five hundred million dollars[1]. That’s what 21,000[2] ranchers who graze their livestock on America’s iconic western rangelands are estimated to have cost US taxpayers in 2014 — and every year for the past decade.

(The fee for 2015 was raised to $1.69 per AUM. What did the billionaire and millionaire ranchers get in exchange for agreeing to pay a few more cents ?)


This averages out to an annual taxpayer subsidy of $23,809 per rancher — approximately a quarter of a million dollars each since 2005.

The fee that livestock operators pay to graze a cow and her calf or five sheep for an entire month on public lands, otherwise defined as an AUM (animal unit month).

In 2014 it was just $1.35 (priced less than a can of dog food) — a figure that is the lowest fee that can be legally charged. $1.35. is well below the market price to graze on private land ($21.60).

February 12, 2015

Five hundred million dollars[1]. That’s what 21,000[2] ranchers who graze their livestock on America’s iconic western rangelands are estimated to have cost US taxpayers in 2014 — and every year for the past decade.

This averages out to an annual taxpayer subsidy of $23,809 per rancher — approximately a quarter of a million dollars each since 2005.

The fee that livestock operators pay to graze a cow and her calf or five sheep for an entire month on public lands, otherwise defined as an AUM (animal unit month).

Two-thirds to three quarters of the low fees ranchers pay go right back into the rancher's pockets, leaving approximately $7.9 million to help defray total costs.

Public lands ranchers paid just $376 for what cost taxpayers $6,838 last year.

USDA Wildlife Services spends $8 million[4] to kill millions of native predators every year.

The BLM’s Wild Horses and Burros program also removes thousands of federally protected horses and burros each year from designated wild horse habitat. The cost of that program tops $80 million a year.

That’s $380 per rancher to kill predators (wolves, coyotes, bear, cougars, bobcats and eagles) and ten times that much ($3,809) to get rid of wild horses and burros.

USDA has a livestock assistance program, under which payments are made directly to ranchers due to natural disasters, like droughts.

The US Army Corps of Engineers, the EPA, the USDA, and Dept. of Justice are involved with grazing issues. The costs are $500 million and $1 billion a year.

What did the Bundy Ranch fiasco cost the taxpayer ?

http://dailypitchfork.org/?p=631

 

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1974, the Bureau of Land Management accused Mary and her sister Carrie of illegally grazing their cattle on public land. The Danns countered that they owned the land. They sued the federal government. The case wended its way through the courts.

Basically in a nutshell in 1985 The Supreme Court held to the decision that the Treaty gave use, not ownership, of the land to the Shoshone. The Treaty stated that the US government was to set aside funds for the “encroachment” of “use” to compensate the tribes for loss of use of the land but that the treaty was specific in noting that the federal government owned mineral and mining rights. In 1986 the District court again said that the Dann’s could graze cattle, but did not own the land.

September 2002, federal agents seized 227 cattle from the Dann ranch. The Dann sisters purchased the ranch from their father Dewey Dann in the 1930s.

The Dann sisters did not transfer grazing permits into their name from their late father, Dewey Dann.

In December 2002, the Danns were ordered to remove remaining livestock and were charged with trespassing on public land. They were served with $3 million in fines for past due grazing fees. The Dann’s said that their land is within the boundaries of the Western Shoshone and therefore under territory rule. The government says the land is now public and it was purchased from Western Shoshone in 1979.


More than 70 years of harsh Nevada wind and sun have etched deep lines across the faces of sisters Carrie and Mary Dann. The two have spent their entire lives ranching in northern Nevada upon the ancestral land of their people, the Western Shoshone Indians, and the women wear the evidence of their vigorous, outdoor livelihood on their weathered faces. Yet there exists another fainter dimension in their countenances. Upon their brows are the deeply furrowed lines of people who have spent much of their lives fighting for their heritage.

I couldn’t understand why the government was harassing two elderly ranching women in a semi-desolate desert in Nevada,” Beth Gage says of the creation of the film. “It didn’t make sense to me, and I thought that there’s got to be more to this.”
wsdp.org

1998, the BLM issued trespass notices, ordered the removal of hundreds of head of cattle and horses, and fined the sisters and the tribe some $3 million. Even an endorsement and order by the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination failed to dissuade the federal government. And an attempt by Sen. Reid to end the matter by distributing $20,000 to each tribal member failed to come to fruition.

The Danns weren’t above the federal law of the land — even if that law had shifted like desert sand.

The Danns had the support of the United Nations, but not the endorsement of armed “patriots” or an outpouring of assistance from conservative media outlets and right-wing political action networks.
- April 24, 2014

http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns-blogs/john-l-smith/shoshone-sisters-also-couldn-t-beat-blm

Opponents of the cash distribution felt it would affect their claims that the Western Shoshone never gave up land under the Ruby Valley Treaty, only right of way to the land. The Western Shoshone say this territory includes tens of millions of acres making up most of Nevada and reaching into Idaho, Utah and Southern California.

Longtime Western Shoshone activist Carrie Dann of Crescent Valley said at a BIA meeting in Elko last summer that land is life for future generations, and “you’re ripping them off” with the cash distribution.”

February 19, 2015

Horses taken during a "gather" are sold to horse slaughter by a BLM contractor.
The judge did not give a fuck.
There was clear evidence.
"Decline."
The man broke the law.

G.W. Bush pretended that he was a Texas cowboy, on his Potemkin ranch.
How much did GW get when he sold the 10,000-square-foot single level mansion ?
It was built on a little pig farm.

"GW Bush's preferred weekend retreat was to the Rainbo Club, an exclusive lakeside hunting club in Henderson County, about an hour south of Dallas, much closer to the comforts of Austin."

GW moved to another million dollar mansion in the suburbs, in Dallas, after he left the white House.

He does not care what happened to the Dann sister's horses.
The horses on the property were not his horses.
(He did not ride.)

"The Dann sisters say the real reason is the resources hidden beneath this seemingly barren land, their Mother Earth: it is the second largest gold producing area in the world."

http://www.amazon.com/American-Outrage-Carrie-Dann/dp/B0025Z4Q3U

 

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America Reframed
Yellow Fever


Army veteran Tina Garnanez returns home to the Navajo Reservation to discover that it has become a battleground in a protracted war over nuclear proliferation. She strives to learn about her family's relationship to the uranium mines.

Navajo people died of cancers, because they worked in the uranium mines without adequate protections. Now, the mining industry is trying to sell applying fracking methods to the extraction of underground uranium. Fracking for oil and gas has done so much harm to private citizens who farmed and raised animals. What hope do the Navajo have for their traditional way of life, if their water sources are contaminated by uranium frackers ?

*gsgs comment- It was heart breaking, to hear that the government waited until the 1990s to admit that many Navajo died needlessly, because information was suppressed. It was ugly to hear the profits made by the usual suspects, at the expense of a small population.The Navaho people helped the United States end the war with the Japanese, by supplying uranium. But, someone decided that those who died would be denied lawful compensation, and only a fraction of the money set aside, would be given. The ancestral lands were poisoned.

Despite loss and injustice, the Navajo tribe gave us something precious, that we needed very badly-

It wasn't until 1968, when the Code Talkers operation was declassified, that the men began to receive recognition for their service. In 2001, the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Other Code Talkers were awarded the Silver Medal."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/06/04/318873830/last-of-the-navajo-code-talkers-dies-at-93


It is ironic that many of the men who became Navajo code talkers had been punished, sometimes brutally, for speaking Navajo in government-run classrooms. The government which had punished them for their language prior to the war was now asking them to use their language to help them win the war.

The U.S. Army in both the Pacific and in Europe used Sioux Code Talkers who used Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota Sioux languages as code. As with the Navajo, the Sioux Code Talkers program was classified and the contribution of these soldiers was not officially recognized until long after the war.

The Comanche were recruited by the Army for use in Europe because their language had no written form and could not be easily decoded by the Germans.

The Navajo people proved that they cared about the fate of America. How were they rewarded for their sacrifices and losses ?

During World War I over 8,000 American Indian soldiers, of whom 6,000 were volunteers, served.

25,000 American Indians served in the military during World War II
Nearly 800 Native American women served in the military during World War II

21,767 in the Army, 1,910 in the Navy, 874 in the Marines, and 121 in the Coast Guard.
Nearly 800 Native American women joined the WAC and Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).

40,000 Native Americans worked in defense industries during the war, and twenty percent of Native American women living on reservations left for jobs mainly in urban areas

1924 the story really got interesting: that was the year all Indians were brought into the union as actual citizens, courtesy of the Indian Citizenship Act. Among other things, the Act gave Indians the right to vote in elections. Unfortunately, many states defied the Act and deliberately denied Indians that most fundamental of American rights: the right to vote.

 

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OK, let me start with the basics. Should the categories "right" and "wrong" apply to food?
- Kathrn Schulz

Personally, I think right and wrong are maybe a little too apocalyptic as terms. But you know, food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go. Even before we get into food professionals or food bloggers or food nerds, you're already talking about something that people identify very closely with their identities.

-Anthony Bourdain

http://www.slate.com/blogs/thewrong...ur_words_anthony_bourdain_on_being_wrong.html

"songcatcher," was an inhabitant of the Lit's GB, for many years. songcatcher, was offended by the idea that a Chinese person might be waiting to eat a human fetus, as it emerged from the vagina of a woman.

"With chopsticks at the ready."

China was a strange country, to begin with. It is a stranger place, after Europeans tried to exploit China.

What is strange to many people, is the practice of eating the nearly newly hatched chick, of a bird, that is still in the shell.

These are Balut, or Balot, Eggs.

"The whole egg will be cooked and kept warm in buckets of warm sand. After being sold, the egg would be carefully cracked and the broth inside drunk before opening the rest of the shell. In some cases, the white will be discarded, as it may be unappetizing, cartilaginous and tough."

http://www.theprairiestar.com/enter...cle_6ce4766e-7a47-11e3-a165-001a4bcf887a.html

Chicken soup, to go! The container can be recycled. What could be more organic, than an egg shell ?
The fetus chick can be eaten whole. The bones are soft and can be chewed and swallowed.
The feathers are from an fetus bird, and can be swallowed. The break is soft cartilage.

If there is no mother bird to hatch the eggs, why waste living breathing protein and a longevity extender ?

A human fetus is also living breathing protein, and a longevity extender.

"The powdered flesh, which officials said came from dead babies and foetuses, is reportedly thought by some to cure disease and boost stamina."


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-17980177


Life is harsh in Russia and China. If you do not have wealth, power, and influence to protect you, you are vulnerable.

If you only have worth, if you are useful and productive, what is done, in the name of protecting health, longevity, and self preservation ?

If a human fetus, is being miscarried or aborted, why waste the protein, and longevity extenders ?

It is a dog eat dog world, after all ?

Dog meat is not legally on the menu in America. Neither is the flesh of a human fetus.

Soylent Green- For a planet that is so overpopulated, so polluted, so depleted, so corrupt, that protein from human flesh cannot be wasted.

The planet cannot support the growth of soy beans. The label is deliberately deceptive.

Black market for fetus flesh of human miscarriages ?

1984

Are we there, yet ?

New World Order ?

It is easy to be a healthy, productive, and happy vegan, if you can afford it.
It was affordable, at one point.

http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-me...rows-latest-master-cleanse-people-food-stamps

Who better to speak to the struggles of food stamp recipients than Gwyneth Paltrow? The actress and founder of GOOP, the oft-ridiculed lifestyle blog that peddles everything from $900 throw blankets to $50 sunscreen, was recently summoned by chef Mario Batali in an Ice Bucket-esque challenge to join him in the fight against food stamp cuts.


Challenge- Feed a family for a week, on $29.00!

Her commitment to the challenge had not lasted for 24 hours because the very next day she was spotted having brunch at Tavern in LA (Brentwood) and last night she went to an $80/plate promotional dinner at Animal. E! News reports:

(GP's collection of items, looked like a vegetarian dinner for a family, for one night. With eggs.)

The only way to understand these fights is to understand that the GOP is threatening to destroy the government and the world economy in order to get rid of Obamacare (as well as a panoply of other right wing demands). Just as terrorists use the fact that you care more about the lives of the hostages than they do to get leverage, Republican threats rely on believing they don’t care about the consequences, while Democrats do.


http://www.alternet.org/belief/how-christian-delusions-are-driving-gop-insane

 

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Vanilla Ice’s claim to Choctaw heritage, destroyed-

(Special thanks to gawker.com)

Since he claimed his Choctaw heritage through his mother’s mother, let’s concentrate on that area of his family tree. Mr. Ice’s maternal grandmother Nina Roth Dickerson was born in Kansas. Nina’s parents are William J. and Ida Eberline Roth (Ice’s greatgrandparents).

William was born in Iowa on February 13th, 1887 to parents Jacob and Edith Howe Roth. Jacob was born in August of 1854 in Pennsylvania in an area flooded with German immigrants. Edith was born in 1868 in Germany. You can see clearly in the 1900 federal census record below that Jacob and Edith both reported all four of their parents were also born in Germany.

Ida Clara Eberline was born in Kansas in 1884 to parents Ferdinand Robert and Nancy C.

Reynolds Eberline. Ferdinand Eberline was born in the city of Meiningen in the state of Thüringen in Germany.

Ida’s mother Nancy was not German, but she also could not have been Choctaw. She was born in Iowa in 1860, and her parents John James and Elizabeth Hatfield Reynolds were both born in Ohio in 1821 and 1836, respectively. This is suspiciously close to the time Choctaw leaders were signing the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (1830) and Choctaws were enduring the Choctaw removal (1831). Spiceland says, “It’s pretty clear from these records that Nina Roth Dickerson was at the very least 75% German, and the other 25% was probably also Western European.”

http://idlenomorewisconsin.tumblr.c...ia-rachelsbyington-vanilla-ice-claims-choctaw

 

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Vanilla Ice’s claim to Choctaw heritage, destroyed-

(Special thanks to gawker.com)

Since he claimed his Choctaw heritage through his mother’s mother, let’s concentrate on that area of his family tree. Mr. Ice’s maternal grandmother Nina Roth Dickerson was born in Kansas. Nina’s parents are William J. and Ida Eberline Roth (Ice’s greatgrandparents).

William was born in Iowa on February 13th, 1887 to parents Jacob and Edith Howe Roth. Jacob was born in August of 1854 in Pennsylvania in an area flooded with German immigrants. Edith was born in 1868 in Germany. You can see clearly in the 1900 federal census record below that Jacob and Edith both reported all four of their parents were also born in Germany.

Ida Clara Eberline was born in Kansas in 1884 to parents Ferdinand Robert and Nancy C.

Reynolds Eberline. Ferdinand Eberline was born in the city of Meiningen in the state of Thüringen in Germany.

Ida’s mother Nancy was not German, but she also could not have been Choctaw. She was born in Iowa in 1860, and her parents John James and Elizabeth Hatfield Reynolds were both born in Ohio in 1821 and 1836, respectively. This is suspiciously close to the time Choctaw leaders were signing the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (1830) and Choctaws were enduring the Choctaw removal (1831). Spiceland says, “It’s pretty clear from these records that Nina Roth Dickerson was at the very least 75% German, and the other 25% was probably also Western European.”

http://idlenomorewisconsin.tumblr.c...ia-rachelsbyington-vanilla-ice-claims-choctaw

His claim of Choctaw heritage was in the face of several Native American actors and the cultural adviser walked out of the filming of Adam Sandler Netflix movie"Ridiculous Six."

They walked out over stereotypes such as a character called "Beaver Breath" and some of the disrespectful language in the script towards women and elders. All the Sandler camp came back with were lines such as "It's satire. It's comedy."

 

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Collateral damage ?

The World Bank Broke Its Promise To Protect The Poor

http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/worldbank-evicted-abandoned


World Bank Accused Of Unfair Evictions


http://www.npr.org/2015/05/03/403946587/world-bank-accused-of-unfair-evictions

 

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My family makes its Rocky Mountains cattle ranch pay by selling timber off the mountain and running it as a dude ranch. The cattle are a nice visual touch, though.

 

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Why does the Southern Poverty Law Center consider The American Freedom Defense Initiative to be a hate group ?

Who is Pamela Geller and the American Freedom Defence Initiative?

Pamela Geller, whose American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group, declared on Sunday that "the war is here" after two heavily armed suspects were killed outside the Curtis Culwell Centre in Garland, north of Dallas.

Ms Geller, 56, is banned from entering the United Kingdom, following a ruling by Theresa May in 2013 preventing her from speaking at a rally for the far-Right English Defence League rally in London.

The Home Office said Geller had been told not to travel to Britain because she had set up organisations “described as anti-Muslim hate groups".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-the-American-Freedom-Defence-Initiative.html


"Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest

From its inception, the event in Texas was controversial. The main organizer, Pamela Geller, has been threatened by Muslim extremists in the past, and the organization paid $10,000 for extra security.

Joe Harn, a Garland, Texas, police officer, said that meant that local police, the FBI, the ATF and a S.W.A.T. team were on hand when the suspects opened fire.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...mmad-cartoon-contest-attack-came-out-shooting

One of the suspects has been identified as Nadir Soofi.

The other, identified as Elton Simpson.

Thanks to Pam Geller, and her millions of dollars, no one can post an opinion.

A ban on political advertising on MTA property was approved overwhelmingly and will go into effect "immediately," a transit spokesman told the Washington Post.


http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...olitical_messages_after_order_to_include.html

 

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Why does the Southern Poverty Law Center consider The American Freedom Defense Initiative to be a hate group ?

Who is Pamela Geller and the American Freedom Defence Initiative?

Pamela Geller, whose American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group, declared on Sunday that "the war is here" after two heavily armed suspects were killed outside the Curtis Culwell Centre in Garland, north of Dallas.

Ms Geller, 56, is banned from entering the United Kingdom, following a ruling by Theresa May in 2013 preventing her from speaking at a rally for the far-Right English Defence League rally in London.

The Home Office said Geller had been told not to travel to Britain because she had set up organisations “described as anti-Muslim hate groups".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-the-American-Freedom-Defence-Initiative.html


"Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest

From its inception, the event in Texas was controversial. The main organizer, Pamela Geller, has been threatened by Muslim extremists in the past, and the organization paid $10,000 for extra security.

Joe Harn, a Garland, Texas, police officer, said that meant that local police, the FBI, the ATF and a S.W.A.T. team were on hand when the suspects opened fire.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...mmad-cartoon-contest-attack-came-out-shooting

One of the suspects has been identified as Nadir Soofi.

The other, identified as Elton Simpson.

Thanks to Pam Geller, and her millions of dollars, no one can post an opinion.

A ban on political advertising on MTA property was approved overwhelmingly and will go into effect "immediately," a transit spokesman told the Washington Post.


http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...olitical_messages_after_order_to_include.html

She's one of the reasons why we must protect the First Amendment, yet she's also the reason why we should be able to be free to criticize and ridicule the lunatics!

 

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MAY 6, 2015

"The point is, our city has become a national playground. It is under the influence of a national, even a worldwide, collection of big money players, financiers, banks, conglomerates, insurance companies and a few billionaires who are making a profit..."


"...we’re in the middle of an inflation of greed as huge as the one that eight years ago brought Wall Street to a collapse that mom and pop bailed out."

"...while the decisions about our city’s final contribution to civilization are being made up the coast somewhere, across the ocean somewhere — on the other side of the planet somewhere..."

http://sandiegofreepress.org/2015/05/losing-ones-perch-on-americas-finest-tourist-plantation/

 

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Hands across the salty water pond ?

Why does the phrase "coach and six" arise when I think on MP Cameron and his "friends" ?


General Election 2015: Photographic history of Bullingdon Club tracked down - including new picture of David Cameron in his finery

Buller for them: former members of the club unmasked

1959 Lord Rothschild OM GBE, chairman of RIT Capital Partners plc, and head of the banking family.

Lord Palumbo, former chairman of the Arts Council and a friend of Prince Charles.

1975 Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch: at time of the photograph he was yet to inherit the dukedom and was styled the Earl of Dalkeith. Largest private landowner in Britain, with four estates covering 240,000 acres in England and Scotland. Art collection comprises 300 paintings including the £30m Leonardo da Vinci painting Madonna of the Yarnwinder.

Roddie Fleming, former chairman of private bank Fleming Family & Partners, and nephew of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett, now the chairman of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust.

1980 Lord David John Ogilvy, heir of the 13th Earl of Airlie. Married Geraldine, daughter of Viscount Rothermere, the following year but by 1990 the couple divorced.

Mark Francis Robert Baring, the son of Lord Ashburton, the former chairman of BP. Is a trustee of the Baring Foundation – its website describes him as being “the manager of an agricultural, residential and sporting estate in Hampshire.”

1981 Rupert Soames, Old Etonian grandson of Sir Winston Churchill and brother of Nicholas Soames, the Conservative MP and friend of the Prince of Wales. Now 55, he is the chief executive of the outsourcing giant Serco, which has attracted criticism for the way it runs the Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre. Appointed OBE in 2010.

Illustration of the illustrious-

Richard Scott, the 10th Duke of Buccleuch, is the largest private landowner in Britain (Getty) Richard Scott, the 10th Duke of Buccleuch, is the largest private landowner in Britain (Getty)

WJC Meath-Baker, has dropped his first names William John and is known as Clovis Meath-Baker. A former Director of Intelligence Production at GCHQ, he was awarded the OBE in 2003 for his work in Afghanistan, and the CMG in 2013 for services to British interests in the Middle East.

1982 Philip Astor, the younger brother of Lord Astor, and a barrister who is married to Justine Picardie, editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar UK.

1996 Yuvraj of Jodhpur, otherwise known as Shivraj Singh, the Crown Prince of Jodhpur. Is now back in India to “assist the Maharaja in his enterprise, particularly in the management of the palace hotel chain,” according to his family’s website.

Tom Lawson, son of Lord Lawson and half-brother of Nigella, was educated at Eton before going to Oxford, and is now deputy head of Christ’s Hospital school in Horsham, West Sussex.

1998 Lord Irwin, Earl of Mornington. Otherwise known as Arthur Wellesley, he is a direct descendant of the Duke of Wellington. Another of his titles is the Marquess of Douro, and he is married to former model Jemma Kidd.

Prince Nicholas Doimi de Frankopan, a descendant of Croatian aristocratic family the Frankopans. He is the brother-in-law of Lord Nicholas Windsor, who is married to his sister Princess Paola.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-of-david-cameron-in-his-finery-10224679.html

 

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It is not true that “there is nothing new in the TPP that would affect existing dispute-resolution mechanisms.” Of course, we don’t have the final text, but based on past agreements like NAFTA, foreign investors would be able to contest a wide range of labor and environmental issues in the investor-state dispute settlement tribunals established by the TPP.

For example, if New York State wants to restrict fracking, a foreign gas or oil company could contest the ban in an investor-state tribunal. If Altman and Haass have information indicating that this is not true, they do not disclose it in the column.

http://fair.org/blog-entries/three-fake-myths-and-two-actual-ones-about-tpp-trade-pact/

 

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FOX TV inserted film footage under false pretenses, to boost a viewpoint that was false ? You don't say!

But the footage of protesters chanting anti-police slogans was not from Sharpton's December 13 march, which The Washington Post described as a "peaceful civil rights march led by families of the slain and organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network."

In a later segment flagged by liberal news site Raw Story, Fox sandwiched -- without explanation -- a clip of the "dead cops" chant in between two clips of Sharpton speaking at the "Justice for All" rally, conflating the two events.

Although an on-screen graphic identified the "dead cop" chant as coming from the New York City protest, co-host Tucker Carlson strongly implied that all the footage shown was from Sharpton's event, stating, "Huh. So the first clip you heard people are saying, 'We want the cops dead.' And the second you heard Al Sharpton say 'We're not against the police.'

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/12/14/fox-amp-friends-airs-misleading-footage-to-sugg/201874

The Wall Street Journal is giving credibility to right wing extremist supporter, Judicial Watch? You don't say!

 

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Scott Walker

According to the American Prospect, “This question [about President Obama’s Christian faith] does actually reveal something worth knowing about Walker, because it’s rooted in today’s Republican Party.

It tells us that Walker is (as yet anyway) unwilling to stand up to the Republican primary electorate’s ample population of lunatics, the people who think Barack Obama is a Mooslem Marxist foreigner enacting his secret Alinskyite plan to destroy America.

Depending on which poll you read, those people may constitute a majority of Republican voters. Walker is either afraid to alienate them, or perhaps he genuinely shares many of their beliefs.

This isn’t about whether you’re a “real” conservative; you can be emphatically right-wing on every policy issue but still be tethered enough to reality not to get seduced by conspiracy theories and fantasies of Obama’s otherness.” [Paul Waldman – American Prospect, 2/23/15]

Scott Walker, friend of Karl Rove...

Former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, who is the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, said Walker’s record on the economy has been a failure compared to Minnesota’s economy under DFL Gov. Mark Dayton.

“He’s promised a road to prosperity and the only road to prosperity that’s working in Wisconsin is the bridge that’s being built to Minnesota,” Rybak said.

http://blogs.mprnews.org/capitol-view/2015/04/dfl-to-walker-wisconsin-economy-stinks/

Think of Dayton as Scott Walker's mirror image. With the help of GOP-controlled legislatures, Walker and other Republican governors, such as Kansas' Sam Brownback, have passed wish lists of conservative policies and touted their states as laboratories that demonstrate the benefits of conservative governance.

Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, has parlayed that hype into a potential 2016 presidential run. And across the border in Minnesota, Dayton seized a brief moment of unified Democratic control to create the liberal alternative to Walker's Wisconsin—a blue-state laboratory for demonstrating the potential of liberal policies. Dayton didn't "set out" with the objective of one-upping Walker in mind, he told me after the Eagan event. But "the contrast," he notes, is obvious.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/mark-dayton-minnesota-governor-profile-scott-walker

Dayton came into office as the state GOP was fighting the final battles of a civil war that had already pulled the party dramatically to the right.

For decades, the Minnesota GOP—which until 1995 had called itself the Independent-Republican party—had worked with Democrats to invest in education, infrastructure, and job growth. That began to change in the 2000s, as religious conservatives like Michelle Bachmann displaced the Rockefeller Republicans of old. The state's last budget surplus came in 1999, when then-Gov. Jesse Ventura returned the money to voters in the form of tax cuts and rebates rather than shoring up the state budget for a rainy day. When, inevitably, revenues later dipped, Republicans under Gov. Tim Pawlenty refused to raise taxes (especially as Pawlenty began to angle for the White House).

The state constitution prohibits the government from borrowing money in almost all instances, so legislators pushed costs down to the school districts that could take out loans, with the hope that the state would one day pay them back.

By the time Dayton was sworn in, on January 3, 2011, the recession and Pawlenty's budget tomfoolery had left Minnesota with a $6.2 billion deficit for the next two years, and the state GOP, which had won control of both houses of the Legislature for the first time since the state ended nonpartisan elections in 1974, was in no mood to help. Immediately following the 2010 election, the state GOP excommunicated Republicans who had endorsed Horner, the independent, for governor—including Arne Carlson, who had been the Republican governor of the state for eight years in the 1990s. Tony Sutton, the state party chair, warned Republicans in the House and Senate that they too would be cast out if they dared to compromise with Dayton, let alone raise taxes.

Back when I first raised [the idea of] taxes on the richest Minnesotans in 2009," Dayton says, "it was considered the kiss of death among even the Democratic political establishment of the country." That might not have been the accepted wisdom, but Dayton now brags that he "won because of that issue," and that "politically it was the right thing to do."

https://www.minnpost.com/party-politics/2015/05/tea-party-not-happy-minnesota-house-republicans

Tea Party does not change its tune

“Give it back,” exhorted the state Republican Party during the legislative debate about how to deal with the state’s $2 billion surplus.

Says Thomas Jefferson said "that government is best which governs least."
— Scott Walker on Thursday, May 14th, 2015 in a tweet



A tweet Walker posted May 14, 2015 caught our attention.

A graphic image attached to the tweet said: "That government is best which governs least. -- Thomas Jefferson."

And the text of the tweet itself read: "Thomas Jefferson said it best. Retweet if you agree that we need a smaller, more conservative government."

That might sound like Jefferson. But it’s not.

In September 2014, PolitiFact Georgia checked a similar claim by U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, R-Georgia, who at the time was running for the seat he now holds. Hice attributed this quote to Jefferson in a tweet: "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."

Our colleagues rated Hice’s claim False.

"That sounds like something that he might have said or written, but in fact, he did not," Anna Berkes, the research librarian at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, said at the time.

Meanwhile, the quote Walker used is so often misattributed to Jefferson that it appears on the "Spurious quotations" page of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation’s website.

That page says of the quote:

"Although the ideas expressed in this quotation may be in line with Jefferson's opinions to some extent, the exact phrasing is almost certainly not Jefferson's. However, this quotation has been associated with the ideological descendants of Jefferson's Democratic-Republican party for a very long time, and this is likely why it ultimately came to be attributed to him."

While it may match closely with Jefferson’s views, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation lists the quote as one of the many that are mistakenly attributed to Jefferson.

We rate Walker’s statement False.

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin...walker-says-it-was-thomas-jefferson-who-utte/


May 21, 2015
It's Official: Scott Walker Gets an "F" in His First Term in Office
Scott Walker might not be in Wisconsin anymore as he campaigns for president all over the country, but the final grade for his first term in office is ready -- and it's an "F."
According to the latest and most accurate quarterly federal jobs numbers, the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (“QCEW”), which Scott Walker has referred to as the “gold standard” when it comes to tallying job creation, Walker created just 129,131 new jobs in his first term, or 51.7 percent of his promise.
Scott Walker ran for office -- twice -- on a central campaign promise to create 250,000 new Wisconsin jobs in his first term. In fact, at his first State of the State address, Walker defined success for his first term as governor by his "ability to shape an environment where 250,000 jobs are created.”


http://wisdems.org/news/press/view/2015-05-its-official-scott-walker-gets-an-f-in-his-first-ter

Minnesota’s students get more shares of the money. Scott Walker is taking his state's school system apart.

 

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Between June and October 2013, Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, paid a local Pennsylvania police department more than $50,000 to patrol a controversial pipeline upgrade. The company requested that the officers, though officially off-duty, be in uniform and marked cars. Kinder Morgan’s aim, according to documents obtained by Earth Island Journal, was to use law enforcement to “deter protests” in order to avoid “costly delays.”

Kinder Morgan sought off-duty police officers to “deter protests” and avoid delay of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline upgrade.

It’s unclear if the police department instructed its officers to explicitly “deter protests” but, if officers carried out Kinder Morgan’s request, their conduct would clearly violate the First Amendment rights of protesters.

“It is politically and socially entirely inappropriate for a private company to be able to hire a police department and use its officers to try to intimidate protesters of one stripe or another,” says David Rudovsky, a civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia and a Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.


“The EPRPD was engaged specifically for the purposes of enforcing the law and the terms of the injunction,” he wrote. “Kinder Morgan has no interest in limiting constitutionally protected free speech rights and legitimate, lawful protest activity.”

During the contract period, however, several local residents and activists reported being followed by the police for doing little more than monitoring pipeline construction activity. One volunteer monitor was charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct after taking photographs of sediment drainage near Cummin’s Creek.

Kinder Morgan, which was spun off from the energy giant Enron in the mid 1990s, has recently become embroiled in several pipeline conflicts. In British Columbia they’ve had to delay their Trans Mountain pipeline project, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta to the Pacific Coast, after encountering fierce opposition from First Nation’s groups, environmental activists, and local officials. In Massachusetts the company was forced to reroute a section of pipeline because of intense local opposition.


https://www.popularresistance.org/kinder-morgan-paid-pa-police-department-to-deter-protests/


Say good bye to home rule, if that agreement gets fast tracked ?

More oil spills, for everyone!

 

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They bought everything, including your rights as a citizen ?

http://www.thepennsylvaniaprogressive.com/

The revised order prohibited Scroggins from going within 100 feet of any active well pad or access roads of properties Cabot owns or has leased mineral rights, even if on public property.

Although the judge agreed that his preliminary order may have been broad and violated Scroggins' First Amendment rights, he continued the injunction, which still violated her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

What Seamans didn't agree about was his conflict-of-interest. He refused to remove himself from the case. On Nov. 9, 2007, he and Elexco Energy signed a mineral lease agreement for 79 acres in New Milford Twp., in the northern part of the county. On April 29, 2008, that lease was transferred to Southwestern Energy. Whether or not that lease proved to be financially lucrative is not in dispute-what is in dispute is that the judge, by signing with an energy company working separate fields in the same area as the plaintiff, even if not Cabot, could benefit, thus compromising his objectivity.

 

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MA governor, Charlie Baker was swanning around in Western MA.

Charlie Baker visits Yankee Candle, and gives the corporation a little free publicity.

Did he break the news gently, that he is cutting funds to the tourism boards across MA ?

Tourist attraction in Deerfield, MA is the flagship Yankee Candle store, and the surrounding village of attractions.


BOCA RATON Jarden Corp. head Martin Franklin collected $118 million last year to run his Fortune 500 company, a gaudy sum that works out to $2.3 million a week and $323,459 a day.

Jarden owns Yankee Candle. The takeover took the best jobs away from local people.
Sweat, blood, hard work, and a Small Business Administration loan built a small hope in 1983.

Goldman Sachs was the shark that tore the prize away from the other ravenous predators.

Gov. Baker saw fit to give a nationwide note of support to his pals at Kinder Morgan, despite the fact that everyone is fighting the pipeline.

Now that Johnny Depp has finished filming the Whitey Bulger story, Gov. Baker has seen fit to cut the budget of funds that might lure other production companies.

Looking to be senator, or president, Gov. Baker ?


Who was he, before he became governor ?

"Charlie, when you rescued Harvard Pilgrim you also outsourced jobs to India and you shut down an operation in Rhode island that cost about 1200 jobs, so the same question I ask to Martha I ask to you, why should people have confidence that you can create the jobs you claim you can in the private sector and public sector?”

“One quick thing about the outsourcing, I get your explanation that you had to save Harvard Pilgrim, what I don’t get though is the picture I’ve seen of you when you got dressed up in the tuxedo and you got an award, the Outsourcing Excellence Award, like there was something to celebrate about outsourcing jobs out of the country.”

Baker promised an eventual end to the technical snarls that have plagued the health plan for years. His plan involves outsourcing tasks to Perot Systems Corp., based in Dallas. The $300 million, five-year contract calls for Perot Systems to take over Harvard Pilgrim’s computer systems, process all claims, maintain and upgrade the computers, and manage the large databases containing the company’s medical and financial information. It remains unclear whether the 1,100 Harvard Pilgrim employees currently working on the company’s information systems will become Perot Systems employees, remain on Harvard Pilgrim’s payroll, or be laid off.” [Boston Globe, 7/29/99]

http://democraticgovernors.org/char...-from-his-outsourcing-record/#~peczvTanvWcMgk


Charlie Baker will have to confront the truth about his tenure at Harvard Pilgrim. While making millions of dollars as the CEO, Baker eliminated health insurance coverage for 3,500 seniors in Western Massachusetts. This is the same Charlie Baker who is currently involved in a pay-to-play investigation and who outsourced jobs to India while his own salary tripled.

http://democraticgovernors.org/char...estern-massachusetts-seniors/#~pecBYNh5bs73cY

 

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Pants On Fire’: Analysis Shows 60% Of Fox News ‘Facts’ Are Really Lies

Fox News leads the major TV networks in broadcasting lies, but that doesn’t mean CNN or MSNBC are far behind.

May 12, 2015


MINNEAPOLIS — Analysis of Fox News suggests that the TV news network is a leader in lying to the American public, beating out CNN and MSNBC for the amount of falsehoods broadcasted.

The analysis comes from Punditfact, a partnership between the Tampa Bay Times and Politifact.com, which maintains scorecards on the accuracy of major TV news networks. As of January, about 60 percent of facts reported by Fox News were false.

Fox began claiming that neighborhoods and even entire cities were off-limits to non-Muslims. The controversy gave rise to the Twitter hashtag #foxnewsfacts.

Fox News’ penchant for inaccuracy has give rise to popular urban legends, debunked by Snopes.com, suggesting that Fox won the right to lie in court — a claim based on a court case that involved a local Fox affiliate — and that the network was banned in Canada for lying.


http://www.mintpressnews.com/pants-o...y-lies/205563/

May 25, 2015

Fox's viewers were not turned into conservatives by watching Fox. They watch Fox because they are conservatives who need to have their preconceptions validated. Then, by being exposed to the bias and disinformation that makes up Fox's programming, they become ignorant, radicalized conservatives.

The real power that Fox wields is with Republican office-holders, candidates and party strategists. They have been fooled into believing that Fox's ratings are an indication of the nation's political mood. Consequently, they believe that taking positions aligned with the extremist right-wingers on Fox will advance their electoral goals. That has cost the party dearly in the last two national elections.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...olitico-Still-Don-t-Understand-About-Fox-News

All of this should make the next few weeks oodles of fun as GOP candidates seek to please the Fox-gods so that they win a spot on the debate stage.

That means more chest-beating about war with Iran, more hate-speech about gays, more talk of bigger, stronger fences on the border, more promises to slash taxes and government programs, and much more bashing of President Obama and Hillary Clinton. And that competition to become the most extreme wingnut will filter into the campaign strategies of the rest of the GOP field as they struggle to become the Fox favorite..

All of which will result in making them completely unelectable in the fall of 2016.

gsgs comment-

Then, again, the news feeds will be clogged with quotes from all the wingnuts.

/end gsgs comment

 

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“Laura Snapes totally wants to fuck me / get in line, bitch… Laura Snapes totally wants to have my babies.”

"There’s this girl named Laura Snapes, she’s a journalist. She’s out to do a story on me, has been contacting a lot of people who know me.”


"You think you’re the only person who wants to get a face-to-face interview with me? Get in line. I’m the best person you never met and one day, if you ever meet me, you’ll probably want to have my baby.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...st-a-bh-in-front-of-1900-people-10299576.html

‘Wait ’til you see me up there [on stage]. You’re gonna be like a cat in heat.’

Context-

"Any given song might encompass his isolation acting on the Swiss set of Paolo Sorrentino’s new film, Youth, visiting a sick friend in Ohio, his HBO habits, cats, gigs, his waning fitness versus his rich appetite."

Universal Themes documents several broken teeth and Kozelek’s attempts to do more exercise, which we discussed in our email exchange. Was he feeling any fitter? “Yeah. Wait ’til you see me up there [on stage]. You’re gonna be like a cat in heat.”

http://www.theguardian.com/music/20...ed-mark-kozelek-he-called-me-a-bitch-on-stage


gsgs comment-

This is not the 1960s, or the 1970s.
You are a not a Rock God, or a Living National Treasure.
You are not on the internets, you are speaking to a living, breathing, vulnerable human being, in public.
Think before you open your mouth.

/end gsgs comment

 

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Begin gsgs sarcasm-

Their home is a temple, and all the males are Gods/gods of that temple.
The God/god that they serve would forgive them.
Every sperm is sacred, and only the male produces sperm.
Therefore a male is sacred.

If the young teen would have died from the beating and the brutally induced miscarriage, their God/ god would have forgiven them.

Just as the Good Christian sent his own daughter to be gang raped and to her death, to protect a man from gang rape, they are justified in covering up a rape, incest, and a pregnancy. The young rapist would have been sent to prison, and raped. Sperm would be wasted, because he would be absent from the presence of females, and have no opportunity to force sperm on them.

The sperm must be protected and guarded.

If rape were made legal, there would be no danger to sperm.

In the temple of the town, all share their worship of the Sperm God/god.
All the temple members forgive as their God/god forgives.
They all help the cover up, and condemn and punish the female that drew the rapist to rape.

If the Sperm incubator dies, none will speak of the corpse of the female, or the babby burned into cinders.

Stars and universes, look upon the Earth and its psychotic worshippers.
The apocalypse has not happened!
Why torment human beings, as if it has happened ?
What if the God/god they serve, is Cthulhu ?

Was not the purpose of Jesus the Christ, to put an end to human sacrifices ?
A roasted babby, burned to cinders sends up fragrant smoke into the sky.
Does their God/ god seem pleased ?

The female has been forced to offer up pain, shame, fear and suffering in the name of protecting the Sperm.

If their God/ god is pleased...

Their God/god was not pleased. They did not complete the ritual by devouring the sacrifice. Their God/god does not like waste. They should have crushed the bones to powder and mixed it with wine to drink.

Their God/ god knows how to get rid of evidence.

/end gsgs sarcasm

The hours-long attack allegedly occurred in 2013, but the girl stayed quiet until another woman, who said she witnessed part of the assault, took her to a police station May 22.

The girl said she became pregnant after she was sexually assaulted by a family member in August 2012 in the 1200 block of North Masters Drive, near Lake June Road, according to an affidavit.

She told police she was a virgin before she was raped and “did not tell anyone about the sexual assault because … she was embarrassed.”

Police said the girl’s relatives found out between January and March 2013 that she was pregnant and “became very nervous and were concerned about … [Child Protective Services] removing children from the residence,” the affidavit says.

Sharon Jones gave the girl “multiple doses of birth control pills, Plan B [emergency contraception] pills and cinnamon tablets … to abort the baby,” police said.

After the pills failed to induce an abortion, Cecila McDonald pinned the girl down while Lonnell McDonald began “repeatedly bouncing up and down” while sitting on the girl’s abdomen. He also is accused of kicking the girl repeatedly.

Cecila McDonald told her, “You ain’t about to get my kids taken away from me,” while Lonnell McDonald laughed, according to the affidavit.

The woman who helped file a police report last month told police the girl was crying in extreme pain. Sharon Jones told the girl to “shut up” and cry into a pillow during the assault, which lasted about six hours, according to the affidavit.

The attack didn’t stop until the girl began bleeding heavily. She said the baby was stillborn about two hours later.

The relatives tried to burn the baby’s body in a charcoal grill, but the remains were not destroyed, the affidavit says. Two days later, Sharon Jones paid Cedric $25 to “take care of the rest of it,” and the remains were disposed of in a plastic bag at an unknown location.

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/201...old-family-member-to-abort-unborn-child.html/

Robert Joseph Cayald, 22, is charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. He is being held in the Dallas County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail.


DNA evidence, from the miscarried corpse will prove him to be the father ?

 

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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

A name from past, filed away and stored in my memory.
Someone mentioned an author, and through the mists
of my clouded mind, Solzhenitsyn's name emerged.
The two names are linked, somehow.

The filing system of a human mind works in mysterious ways.

"Ever since the Solzhenitsyn family moved from Zurich to Vermont, in the summer of 1976, the residents of Cavendish—all one thousand three hundred and twenty-three of them—have been vigilant in protecting the privacy of their Nobel Prize winner. When James Jeffords, the state’s Republican senator, who was then in the House of Representatives, came to visit some years ago, he had to explain at length his station in Washington before anyone would help him find the Solzhenitsyn house."

Profiles
February 14, 1994

The Exile Returns

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/02/14/the-exile-returns

1993, the Boston Globe’s former Moscow correspondent, Alex Beam, published an opinion piece in the paper under the headline “SHUT UP, SOLZHENITSYN.”

1990 Russia agrees to let people immigrate to America.


May 27, 1994

Dissident writer Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia

Alexander Solzhenitsyn has flown back to his native Russia after 20 years of exile in the United States.

His plane touched down in the far eastern port of Magadan from Anchorage, Alaska, and he was greeted by 2,000 people, given flowers and the traditional welcome gift of bread and salt.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/27/newsid_2495000/2495895.stm


25 January 2003

Vassili Berezhkov, a retired KGB colonel and historian of the secret services and the NKVD (the precursor of the KGB), said: "The question of ethnicity did not have any importance either in the revolution or the story of the NKVD. This was a social revolution and those who served in the NKVD and cheka were serving ideas of social change.

"If Solzhenitsyn writes that there were many Jews in the NKVD, it will increase the passions of anti-semitism, which has deep roots in Russian history. I think it is better not to discuss such a question now."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/25/russia.books

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: His final interview

05 August 2008

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-solzhenitsyn-his-final-interview-885152.html


Wall Street crashes the world's economy. What happened to Russia ?

 

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Excerpted from "Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties"


http://www.salon.com/2015/06/07/wil...to_know_about_conservatives_and_civil_rights/

The only black face in the audience was that of Baldwin’s friend, Sidney Poitier.

proposition under consideration was “The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.”

For Buckley, who had long opposed the civil rights movement, it seemed to be a perfect venue for him to explain his position.




As a signal crafter of conservative talking points in the midcentury years, throughout the 1950s and 1960s National Review developed arguments to oppose every motion in favor of civil rights, indiscriminately using sometimes contradictory ideas in order to pursue a single goal: the continued subjugation of America’s black people.


Buckley himself had developed two arguments against civil rights, both of which were little more than disguised racism, both of which led the line at National Review. The first emerged early in his career. Since the 1950s, Buckley had argued that civil rights should be opposed not because black people were biologically inferior to white people, but because they were not yet “civilized” enough to take part in democratic government. Or, as Buckley put it in 1959, “There are no scientific grounds for assuming congenital Negro disabilities. The problem is not biological, but cultural and educational.”


(The salon quote, includes Buckley's support of "state's rights, and more. How did I miss this side of William F. Buckley ? Forget what I said about having respect for this man. This is my fault. With the everything at my fingertips, I never asked myself if he was a racist. I am surprised that I have not seen Buckley say anything like this.:

Buckley would have done well to listen to his co-combatant. Instead, he looked over his notes, appeared distracted, and smiled wistfully. His mind seemed elsewhere.

When Baldwin rose to go next, he first laid a trap for Buckley. Anticipating that Buckley would rely on his two main arguments against civil rights, Baldwin dismissed them in advance, saying, “The white South African or Mississippi sharecropper or Alabama sheriff has at bottom a system of reality which compels them really to believe when they face the Negro, that this woman, this man, this child must be insane to attack the system to which he owes his entire identity.” Buckley, Baldwin was saying, was identical to the Alabama sheriff who just couldn’t understand why someone would attack a culture that had allowed him to prosper. Buckley may or may not have been an outright racist, but that was beside the point. He simply couldn’t understand the plight of the downtrodden because he himself had been so successful.

gsgs comment- Buckley never woke from his delusions. *sigh*
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January 1, 1923 a massacre was carried out in the small, predominantly black town of Rosewood in Central Florida.

The massacre was instigated by the rumor that a white woman, Fanny Taylor, had been sexually assaulted by a black man in her home in a nearby community.

A group of white men, believing this rapist to be a recently escaped convict named Jesse Hunter who was hiding in Rosewood, assembled to capture this man. Prior this event a series of incidents had stirred racial tensions within Rosewood.

During the previous winter of 1922 a white school teacher from Perry had been murdered and on New Years Eve of 1922 there was a Ku Klux Klan rally held in Gainesville, located not far away from Rosewood.

In response to the allegation by Taylor, white men began to search for Jesse Hunter, Aaron Carrier and Sam Carter who were believed to be accomplices. Carrier was captured and incarcerated while Carter was lynched. The white mob suspected Aaron's cousin, Sylvester Carrier, a Rosewood resident of harboring the fugitive, Jesse Hunter.

On January 4, 1923 a group of 20 to 30 white men approached the Carrier home and shot the family dog. When Sylvester's mother Sarah came to the porch to confront the mob they shot and killed her. Sylvester defended his home, killing two men and wounding four in the ensuing battle before he too was killed.

The remaining survivors fled to the swamps for refuge where many of the African American residents of Rosewood had already retreated, hoping to avoid the rising conflict and increasing racial tension.

The next day the white mob burned the Carrier home before joining with a group of 200 men from surrounding towns who had heard erroneously that a black man had killed two white men.

As night descended the mob attacked the town, slaughtering animals and burning buildings. An official report claims six blacks killed along with two whites. Other accounts suggest a larger total. At the end of the carnage only two buildings remained standing, a house and the town general store.


Right on the heels of the book publication, in 1997, came the film Rosewood. Though critically acclaimed, the drama, directed by John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood) starring Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle and Jon Voight was not a commercial success. I don't think general audiences in America were ready to stare this history in the face—and own it. Perhaps now, as more young people join in the protests of #Blacklivesmatter, it will be revisited.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/04/1354699/-Remembering-the-Rosewood-Massacre

 

[Aglaopheme]

The Black Wall Street

January 1, 1923 a massacre was carried out in the small, predominantly black town of Rosewood in Central Florida.

The massacre was instigated by the rumor that a white woman, Fanny Taylor, had been sexually assaulted by a black man in her home in a nearby community.

A group of white men, believing this rapist to be a recently escaped convict named Jesse Hunter who was hiding in Rosewood, assembled to capture this man. Prior this event a series of incidents had stirred racial tensions within Rosewood.

During the previous winter of 1922 a white school teacher from Perry had been murdered and on New Years Eve of 1922 there was a Ku Klux Klan rally held in Gainesville, located not far away from Rosewood.

In response to the allegation by Taylor, white men began to search for Jesse Hunter, Aaron Carrier and Sam Carter who were believed to be accomplices. Carrier was captured and incarcerated while Carter was lynched. The white mob suspected Aaron's cousin, Sylvester Carrier, a Rosewood resident of harboring the fugitive, Jesse Hunter.

On January 4, 1923 a group of 20 to 30 white men approached the Carrier home and shot the family dog. When Sylvester's mother Sarah came to the porch to confront the mob they shot and killed her. Sylvester defended his home, killing two men and wounding four in the ensuing battle before he too was killed.

The remaining survivors fled to the swamps for refuge where many of the African American residents of Rosewood had already retreated, hoping to avoid the rising conflict and increasing racial tension.

The next day the white mob burned the Carrier home before joining with a group of 200 men from surrounding towns who had heard erroneously that a black man had killed two white men.

As night descended the mob attacked the town, slaughtering animals and burning buildings. An official report claims six blacks killed along with two whites. Other accounts suggest a larger total. At the end of the carnage only two buildings remained standing, a house and the town general store.


Right on the heels of the book publication, in 1997, came the film Rosewood. Though critically acclaimed, the drama, directed by John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood) starring Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle and Jon Voight was not a commercial success. I don't think general audiences in America were ready to stare this history in the face—and own it. Perhaps now, as more young people join in the protests of #Blacklivesmatter, it will be revisited.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/04/1354699/-Remembering-the-Rosewood-Massacre

This brings this to mind.
http://youtu.be/X4IvFXPGYNA

So, that's the long version. The sweetened condensed version:

http://sfbayview.com/2011/02/what-happened-to-black-wall-street-on-june-1-1921/