veteranstoday--2020-07-02--Mobsters Out of Federal Lockdown Still Get COVID-19

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veteranstoday--2020-07-03--Johnson and Trump now share the same covid policy: Pretend it doesn’t exist

__________ Politics.co.uk Johnson and Trump now share the same covid policy : Pretend it doesn ’ t exist It is perhaps no coincidence that , before they became world leaders , both Boris Johnson and Donald Trump made cameo appearances as themselves on soap operas .
In 2009 Johnson propped up the bar of the Queen Vic , while in 2005 Trump appeared in Days of Our Lives .
Both men have short attention spans and love performing .
The main appeal of soap , of course , is that things constantly happen but never for too long .
New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and events that captivate viewers one month are well forgotten the next .
A mystery killer virus on Brookside once killed a couple of minor characters and then vanished .
The reality of politics actually has quite a lot in common with soap .
News cycles are episodic , major figures can be quickly dispatched , and newspapers will cast a protagonist as hero and then villain in the same month .
Politicians , like scriptwriters , depend on short memories .
But here ’ s the problem .
Real life actually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not a storyline .
And yet both Johnson and Trump are behaving as though it is – and urgently want to wrap it up .
In Johnson ’ s press conference last week he announced that pubs , restaurants and cinemas would reopen on July 4th , and social distancing would be reduced to ‘ one metre plus ’ .
He has urged people to return to shops and bars almost as a patriotic duty .
Trump , meanwhile , has all but ignored the new record highs in daily cases , blaming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two countries ’ outbreaks are different , but the political tactics broadly the same .
The virus , for all intents and purposes , no longer exists .
The leaders have declared we must move on , so move on we must .
The reason is straightforward enough .
Soaps , like demagogues , exist to be popular , and when push comes to shove , coronavirus isn ’ t very entertaining .
It grabbed people ’ s attention , and was certainly dramatic , but it wasn ’ t comfort viewing .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ end .
For the government , that has made it both boring and dangerous .
The answer , on both sides of the Atlantic , is simply to cancel it .
Part of this is narcissism .
Both Johnson and Trump are gripped by the myth of their own greatness and their delusion of total control .
In the mould of all strongmen , they want to believe they can dictate and decree their countries ’ fortunes .
This is the Brexit model of fantasy : you can engineer any defiance of reality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ What these men can not control must simply disappear .
But it is also more practical and political than that .
Johnson and Trump believe they can write the narrative of coronavirus quite literally .
From the start , covid has been treated like a political campaign , conducted in soundbites .
The focus is always the script and the stage , never the work behind the scenes .
In Britain it is about war rhetoric , massaging figures , and presenting every fresh disaster as a government triumph against the odds .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s election chances , bashing the Democrats and opening a new front in the culture war .
In both countries public relations have trumped public health .
Nothing really matters provided the government is winning .
When you treat the virus as drama , everything becomes presentation .
The key means of communicating to the public – press briefings and national addresses – have been measured not by clarity of communication but by ratings .
Trump boasted about the viewing figures for his press conferences as though they were just another reality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the weekend briefings because of low ratings .
Now the pandemic storyline is over , of course , there is no need for the conferences – and so last week Downing Street scrapped them altogether .
The message to viewers was plain enough : move on , because there ’ s nothing to see here .
Certainly , Johnson wasn ’ t blatant enough to declare the pandemic literally finished .
He has not reprised his March 19th exhortation to “ get the virus done ” , like an epidemiological Brexit .
Not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that do will not be as they were before .
But the prime minister knows people are not reading the small print .
The messaging is more important than the substance , and could not be clearer : social distancing is out , the pubs are back , July 4th is our independence day and everything is back to normal .
Of course , we are all desperate to return to normality .
No doubt many of the government ’ s critics will be enjoying a pint on Saturday .
Lockdown has now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ want to have their families round for dinner , hug their friends , and go for a drink .
In short , people want not to be afraid anymore , and the government is notionally giving them what they want .
Except this isn ’ t actually about what people want .
This is about what the government wants .
Johnson is tired of the virus , panicked by the polls , and desperate to get back to entertaining the public .
Fist-banging about Brexit is fun , mitigating a pandemic is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ become even more toxic .
Of course people will crowd the beaches .
Of course they will loosen up in the pub .
Of course , after months of hardship , some will behave excessively .
But those people have also followed the government ’ s nudge-and-wink messaging .
So when cases begin to rise , as they inevitably will , it will be the fault of the people who were confused , not the people who confused them .
Ministers are , in effect , setting up the public to fail .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ cake and eat it .
First , it gets to distract people and pretend the virus no longer exists .
Then , when the virus turns out very much to exist , they can blame the public for not navigating the tightrope they laid out for them .
It is a double-whammy of cynicism that allows the government to absolve itself of responsibility in all circumstances .
It is no consolation that Trump ’ s version of this tactic is even more extreme : to pretend the virus has disappeared by concealing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ declares his intention to cut the number of tests , and his government is ending the federal funding of 13 testing sites .
Vice-President Mike Pence , the marginally less unhinged face of the administration , has insisted that cases are only rising because tests have , but that is simply untrue .
New York is conducting 50 % more tests than last month and getting 60 % fewer positive results , while Florida is testing 22 % fewer people and getting 341 % more positives .
The virus in America is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is barely getting started .
And so now begins the great project of old power-grabs and new distractions .
The UK government is offering the generational shake-up of the civil service , a Brexit ‘ shock and awe ’ campaign , and a bogus promise of grand public investment .
The US administration is returning to the promotion of white supremacy and the excitement of Trump ’ s re-election battle .
Johnson and Trump are desperate to be strongmen , but like their counterparts Vladimir Putin and Jair Bolsonaro , they just happen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s worst outbreaks .
We all wish this virus would go away and , indeed , that it had never arrived at all .
As humans we instinctively seek to curb nature ’ s greatest dangers and struggle to accept our own weakness .
But covid is not a storyline our leaders can ditch when it gets too dull or convoluted , and the writers can ’ t subsequently pretend it never happened .
Johnson and Trump love drama and love entertaining , but what they love most of all is themselves .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ come close .
Jonathan Lis is deputy director of the pro-EU think tank British Influence and a political writer and commentator .
The opinions in Politics.co.uk ’ s Comment and Analysis section are those of the author and are no reflection of the views of the website or its owners .

__________
Politics.co.uk
Johnson and Trump now share the same covid policy: Pretend it doesn’t exist
By Jonathan Lis
It is perhaps no coincidence that, before they became world leaders, both Boris Johnson and Donald Trump made cameo appearances as themselves on soap operas. In 2009 Johnson propped up the bar of the Queen Vic, while in 2005 Trump appeared in Days of Our Lives. Both men have short attention spans and love performing. The main appeal of soap, of course, is that things constantly happen but never for too long. New characters arrive, storylines get tidied up, and events that captivate viewers one month are well forgotten the next. A mystery killer virus on Brookside once killed a couple of minor characters and then vanished.
The reality of politics actually has quite a lot in common with soap. News cycles are episodic, major figures can be quickly dispatched, and newspapers will cast a protagonist as hero and then villain in the same month. Politicians, like scriptwriters, depend on short memories. But here’s the problem. Real life actually is not soap, and coronavirus is not a storyline. And yet both Johnson and Trump are behaving as though it is – and urgently want to wrap it up.
In Johnson’s press conference last week he announced that pubs, restaurants and cinemas would reopen on July 4th, and social distancing would be reduced to ‘one metre plus’. He has urged people to return to shops and bars almost as a patriotic duty. Trump, meanwhile, has all but ignored the new record highs in daily cases, blaming the spike on increased testing. The two countries’ outbreaks are different, but the political tactics broadly the same. The virus, for all intents and purposes, no longer exists. The leaders have declared we must move on, so move on we must.
The reason is straightforward enough. Soaps, like demagogues, exist to be popular, and when push comes to shove, coronavirus isn’t very entertaining. It grabbed people’s attention, and was certainly dramatic, but it wasn’t comfort viewing. It was also a story seemingly without end. For the government, that has made it both boring and dangerous. The answer, on both sides of the Atlantic, is simply to cancel it.
Part of this is narcissism. Both Johnson and Trump are gripped by the myth of their own greatness and their delusion of total control. In the mould of all strongmen, they want to believe they can dictate and decree their countries’ fortunes. This is the Brexit model of fantasy: you can engineer any defiance of reality if you simply believe hard enough. What these men cannot control must simply disappear.
But it is also more practical and political than that. Johnson and Trump believe they can write the narrative of coronavirus quite literally. From the start, covid has been treated like a political campaign, conducted in soundbites. The focus is always the script and the stage, never the work behind the scenes. In Britain it is about war rhetoric, massaging figures, and presenting every fresh disaster as a government triumph against the odds. In America it is about safeguarding Trump’s election chances, bashing the Democrats and opening a new front in the culture war. In both countries public relations have trumped public health. Nothing really matters provided the government is winning.
When you treat the virus as drama, everything becomes presentation. The key means of communicating to the public – press briefings and national addresses – have been measured not by clarity of communication but by ratings. Trump boasted about the viewing figures for his press conferences as though they were just another reality show, while the British government ditched the weekend briefings because of low ratings. Now the pandemic storyline is over, of course, there is no need for the conferences – and so last week Downing Street scrapped them altogether. The message to viewers was plain enough: move on, because there’s nothing to see here.
Certainly, Johnson wasn’t blatant enough to declare the pandemic literally finished. He has not reprised his March 19th exhortation to “get the virus done”, like an epidemiological Brexit. Not everything will open on Saturday and things that do will not be as they were before. But the prime minister knows people are not reading the small print. The messaging is more important than the substance, and could not be clearer: social distancing is out, the pubs are back, July 4th is our independence day and everything is back to normal.
Of course, we are all desperate to return to normality. No doubt many of the government’s critics will be enjoying a pint on Saturday. Lockdown has now lasted for almost four months. People want to have their families round for dinner, hug their friends, and go for a drink. In short, people want not to be afraid anymore, and the government is notionally giving them what they want.
Except this isn’t actually about what people want. This is about what the government wants. Johnson is tired of the virus, panicked by the polls, and desperate to get back to entertaining the public. Fist-banging about Brexit is fun, mitigating a pandemic is not.
And so here is where things become even more toxic. Of course people will crowd the beaches. Of course they will loosen up in the pub. Of course, after months of hardship, some will behave excessively. But those people have also followed the government’s nudge-and-wink messaging. So when cases begin to rise, as they inevitably will, it will be the fault of the people who were confused, not the people who confused them. Ministers are, in effect, setting up the public to fail.
This way the government can have its cake and eat it. First, it gets to distract people and pretend the virus no longer exists. Then, when the virus turns out very much to exist, they can blame the public for not navigating the tightrope they laid out for them. It is a double-whammy of cynicism that allows the government to absolve itself of responsibility in all circumstances.
It is no consolation that Trump’s version of this tactic is even more extreme: to pretend the virus has disappeared by concealing the numbers of cases. The president openly declares his intention to cut the number of tests, and his government is ending the federal funding of 13 testing sites. Vice-President Mike Pence, the marginally less unhinged face of the administration, has insisted that cases are only rising because tests have, but that is simply untrue. New York is conducting 50% more tests than last month and getting 60% fewer positive results, while Florida is testing 22% fewer people and getting 341% more positives. The virus in America is not over, and in some states it is barely getting started.
And so now begins the great project of old power-grabs and new distractions. The UK government is offering the generational shake-up of the civil service, a Brexit ‘shock and awe’ campaign, and a bogus promise of grand public investment. The US administration is returning to the promotion of white supremacy and the excitement of Trump’s re-election battle. Johnson and Trump are desperate to be strongmen, but like their counterparts Vladimir Putin and Jair Bolsonaro, they just happen to be presiding over the world’s worst outbreaks.
We all wish this virus would go away and, indeed, that it had never arrived at all. As humans we instinctively seek to curb nature’s greatest dangers and struggle to accept our own weakness. But covid is not a storyline our leaders can ditch when it gets too dull or convoluted, and the writers can’t subsequently pretend it never happened. Johnson and Trump love drama and love entertaining, but what they love most of all is themselves. The people they lead have never even come close.
Jonathan Lis is deputy director of the pro-EU think tank British Influence and a political writer and commentator.
The opinions in Politics.co.uk’s Comment and Analysis section are those of the author and are no reflection of the views of the website or its owners.


veteranstoday--2020-07-03--Maxwell Indictment Includes Two Areas Where Trump Can Be Prosecuted for Pedophilia

In December 2016 when Donald Trump bragged that the child rape lawsuit brought against him ( below ) was dismissed , he was correct .
It was dismissed because Ghislaine Maxwell testified that the accusations made were false .
Now Maxwell faces prison for , among other things , lying in the 2015-2016 “ Jane Doe ” lawsuit against Trump and Epstein , which cleared Trump of potential criminal charges for child rape and allowed him to assume the presidency .
Now he is no longer cleared .
The documents below , starting with page 10 of the indictment , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s crimes .
Mentioned , or rather not mentioned but referred to as “ other , ” there are clear references to those who are not charged .
The reason is clear as well .
The testimony that would have indicted Trump didn ’ t exist , not because Trump didn ’ t rape kids but because Maxwell , as outlined in the indictment , lied in civil cases including one cited in the indictment which included charges of child rape against both Trump and Epstein .
The indictment is purposefully hazy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in civil cases where she is now charged with lying .
It was Maxwell ’ s lies that got a 2015 case dismissed that accused Trump and Epstein of child rape .
( see case filings below ) No information on the case was given in the indictment other than an untraceable docket number .
However , and this is included below in the comprehensive list of Maxwell cases in which she may have been questioned , there was only one case that fit the indictment which cited her 2016 testimony and that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Epstein .
This ties it up completely and all required is here .
Why has no one else bothered ?
U.S. v. Ghislaine Maxwell I… by catherine_fenlon on Scribd Details of a civil lawsuit , made public in January 2015 , contained a deposition from “ Jane Doe 3″ that accused Maxwell of recruiting her in 1999 , when she was a minor , and grooming her to provide sexual services for Epstein .
[ 16 ] A 2018 exposé by Julie K. Brown in the Miami Herald revealed Jane Doe 3 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ previously known as Virginia Roberts .
Giuffre met Maxwell at Donald Trump ’ s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach , Florida , where Giuffre was working at the time .
[ 16 ] She asserted that Maxwell had introduced her to Epstein , after which she was “ groomed by the two [ of them ] for his pleasure , including lessons in Epstein ’ s preferences during oral sex ” .
[ 51 ] [ 16 ] Maxwell has repeatedly denied any involvement in Epstein ’ s crimes .
[ 41 ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allegations that she has acted as a procurer for Epstein and denied that she had “ facilitated Prince Andrew ’ s acts of sexual abuse ” .
Her spokesperson said “ the allegations made against Ghislaine Maxwell are untrue ” and she “ strongly denies allegations of an unsavory nature , which have appeared in the British press and elsewhere , and reserves her right to seek redress at the repetition of such old defamatory claims ” .
[ 47 ] [ 52 ] Giuffre asserted that Maxwell and Epstein had trafficked her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sex parties hosted by Epstein at his homes in New York , New Mexico , Palm Beach , and the U.S. Virgin Islands .
Maxwell called her a liar .
Giuffre sued Maxwell for defamation in federal court in the Southern District of New York in 2015 .
While details of the settlement have not been made public , in May 2017 the case was settled in Giuffre ’ s favour , [ 53 ] with Maxwell paying Giuffre “ millions ” .
[ 54 ] In 2017 , Sarah Ransome filed a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Court Southern District of New York , against Epstein and Maxwell , alleging that Maxwell hired her to give massages to Epstein and later threatened to physically harm her or destroy her career prospects if she did not comply with their sexual demands at his mansion in New York and on his private Caribbean island , Little Saint James .
The suit was settled in 2018 under undisclosed terms .
[ 55 ] [ 3 ] [ 39 ] [ 56 ] On 16 April 2019 , Maria Farmer went public and filed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York , alleging that she and her 15-year-old sister , Annie , had been sexually assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell in separate locations in 1996 .
Farmer ’ s affidavit was filed in support of a defamation suit between Virginia Giuffre against Alan Dershowitz .
[ 57 ] According to the affidavit , Farmer had met Maxwell and Epstein at a New York art gallery reception in 1995 .
The affidavit says that in the summer of the following year , they hired her to work on an art project in billionaire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , where she was then sexually assaulted by both Maxwell and Epstein .
[ 58 ] [ 59 ] Farmer reported the incident to the New York Police Department and the FBI .
[ 42 ] Her affidavit also stated that during the same summer , Epstein flew her then 15-year-old sister , Annie , to his New Mexico property where he and Maxwell molested her on a massage table .
[ 60 ] [ 61 ] Farmer was interviewed for CBS This Morning in November 2019 where she detailed the 1996 assault @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both her career and her life after the assault .
[ 62 ] On 14 August 2019 , Jennifer Araoz filed a lawsuit in New York County Supreme Court against Epstein ’ s estate , Maxwell , and three unnamed members of his staff ; the lawsuit was made possible under New York state ’ s new Child Victims Act , which took effect on the same date .
[ 63 ] Araoz later amended her complaint on October 8 , 2019 with the names of the previously unidentified women enablers to include @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the late Rosalyn Fontanilla .
[ 64 ] Ghislaine Maxwell was named in one of three lawsuits filed in New York on 20 August 2019 against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein .
[ 65 ] The woman filing the suit , identified as “ Priscilla Doe ” , claimed that she was recruited in 2006 and trained by Maxwell with step-by-step instructions on how to provide sexual services for Epstein .
[ 66 ] [ 67 ] Annie Farmer , represented by David Boies , sued Maxwell and Epstein ’ s estate in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2019 , accusing them of rape , battery and false imprisonment and seeking unspecified damages .
[ 68 ] [ 5 ] In January 2020 , a lawsuit was filed against Maxwell and Epstein alleging that they recruited a 13-year-old music student at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in 1994 and subjected her to sexual abuse .
[ 5 ] The suit states that Jane Doe was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Epstein over a four year period and that Maxwell played a key role both in her recruitment and by participating in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ filed a lawsuit on 12 March 2020 against Epstein ’ s estate , which claimed she had been a longtime employee of Epstein ( from 1998 to 2006 ) [ 69 ] who had served to manage his property holdings in the U.S. Virgin Islands , New York , New Mexico , Florida and Paris [ 70 ] while continuing to deny any knowledge or involvement in his criminal activities .
[ 6 ] [ 7 ] According to the lawsuit , filed in Superior Court in the U.S. Virgin Islands , Maxwell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ associated with defending herself against her accusers ) that she claims Epstein had promised to cover for her .
[ 6 ] [ 7 ]

Berman fired as US Attorney SDNY to protect Trump. Berman would have controlled Maxwell case, targeted Trump
[ Editor’s Note: The Daily Mail is adding more background on Ms. Ghislaine. She is looking at life in prison for the number of counts she will have, and thus a prime candidate for rolling over on others, and also becoming an alleged suicide statistic with Epstein.
But other ghosts are coming out of the closet now. We of course had known Pappa Maxwell had been an Israeli spy, his major work in nuclear espionage and proliferation, and also a long history spying for Russia going back to his younger days.
The document below references the role of Alan Dershowitz and the nature of the alleged Mossad blackmail ring run by Epstein and Maxwell.
Epstein, Dershowitz, Maxwell Court References to Blackmail by Gordon Duff on Scribd
The man was an arch criminal, which certainly British Intel should have been savvy enough to eventually pick up on, so they will have some ass covering to do here. There are a lot of people and organizations that might be praying that she has a fatal stroke or heart attack.
VT would like to ask the authorities what took them so long. There was no rocket science involved. So that led us to believe she was allowed to get away because she had been flipped by someone very powerful. Prince Andrew will now face more exposure.
We felt the same way with Trump’s buddy Felix Sater and a football sized team of Kosher Nostra business gangsters who have operated out of Trump Tower for a long time. Even if Trump loses and Biden gets in, that is no assurance that his administration will really clean house.
Such an effort would trigger the possibility of people getting murdered to demonstrate that the bad guys are not going to go down without inflicting some major pain. Expect to see a major showdown here between the hopefully good, and the provenly evil.
Thus ends my cheery missive for the day … Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published … July 03, 2020 –
In December 2016 when Donald Trump bragged that the child rape lawsuit brought against him (below) was dismissed, he was correct. It was dismissed because Ghislaine Maxwell testified that the accusations made were false.
Now Maxwell faces prison for, among other things, lying in the 2015-2016 “Jane Doe” lawsuit against Trump and Epstein, which cleared Trump of potential criminal charges for child rape and allowed him to assume the presidency.
Now he is no longer cleared.
The documents below, starting with page 10 of the indictment, tie Donald Trump to Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes. Mentioned, or rather not mentioned but referred to as “other,” there are clear references to those who are not charged.
The reason is clear as well. The testimony that would have indicted Trump didn’t exist, not because Trump didn’t rape kids but because Maxwell, as outlined in the indictment, lied in civil cases including one cited in the indictment which included charges of child rape against both Trump and Epstein.
The indictment is purposefully hazy in outlining Maxwell’s false testimony in civil cases where she is now charged with lying. It was Maxwell’s lies that got a 2015 case dismissed that accused Trump and Epstein of child rape. (see case filings below)
No information on the case was given in the indictment other than an untraceable docket number. However, and this is included below in the comprehensive list of Maxwell cases in which she may have been questioned, there was only one case that fit the indictment which cited her 2016 testimony and that was the Jane Doe rape by Trump and Epstein.
This ties it up completely and all required is here.
Why has no one else bothered?
Censorship, control of the media?
U.S. v. Ghislaine Maxwell I… by catherine_fenlon on Scribd
Donald Trump & Jeffrey … by davidbix on Scribd
Civil cases and accusations
Virginia Roberts Giuffre v. Maxwell (2015)
Details of a civil lawsuit, made public in January 2015, contained a deposition from “Jane Doe 3″ that accused Maxwell of recruiting her in 1999, when she was a minor, and grooming her to provide sexual services for Epstein.[16] A 2018 exposé by Julie K. Brown in the Miami Herald revealed Jane Doe 3 to be Virginia Giuffre, who was previously known as Virginia Roberts. Giuffre met Maxwell at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, where Giuffre was working at the time.[16] She asserted that Maxwell had introduced her to Epstein, after which she was “groomed by the two [of them] for his pleasure, including lessons in Epstein’s preferences during oral sex”.[51][16]
Maxwell has repeatedly denied any involvement in Epstein’s crimes.[41] In a 2015 statement, Maxwell rejected allegations that she has acted as a procurer for Epstein and denied that she had “facilitated Prince Andrew’s acts of sexual abuse”. Her spokesperson said “the allegations made against Ghislaine Maxwell are untrue” and she “strongly denies allegations of an unsavory nature, which have appeared in the British press and elsewhere, and reserves her right to seek redress at the repetition of such old defamatory claims”.[47][52]
Giuffre asserted that Maxwell and Epstein had trafficked her and other underage girls, often at sex parties hosted by Epstein at his homes in New York, New Mexico, Palm Beach, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Maxwell called her a liar. Giuffre sued Maxwell for defamation in federal court in the Southern District of New York in 2015. While details of the settlement have not been made public, in May 2017 the case was settled in Giuffre’s favour,[53] with Maxwell paying Giuffre “millions”.[54]
Sarah Ransome v. Epstein and Maxwell (2017)
In 2017, Sarah Ransome filed a suit, in the United States District Court Southern District of New York, against Epstein and Maxwell, alleging that Maxwell hired her to give massages to Epstein and later threatened to physically harm her or destroy her career prospects if she did not comply with their sexual demands at his mansion in New York and on his private Caribbean island, Little Saint James. The suit was settled in 2018 under undisclosed terms.[55][3][39][56]
Affidavit filed by Maria Farmer (2019)
On 16 April 2019, Maria Farmer went public and filed a sworn affidavit in federal court in New York, alleging that she and her 15-year-old sister, Annie, had been sexually assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell in separate locations in 1996. Farmer’s affidavit was filed in support of a defamation suit between Virginia Giuffre against Alan Dershowitz.[57] According to the affidavit, Farmer had met Maxwell and Epstein at a New York art gallery reception in 1995. The affidavit says that in the summer of the following year, they hired her to work on an art project in billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner’s Ohio mansion, where she was then sexually assaulted by both Maxwell and Epstein.[58][59] Farmer reported the incident to the New York Police Department and the FBI.[42] Her affidavit also stated that during the same summer, Epstein flew her then 15-year-old sister, Annie, to his New Mexico property where he and Maxwell molested her on a massage table.[60][61]
Farmer was interviewed for CBS This Morning in November 2019 where she detailed the 1996 assault and alleged that Maxwell had repeatedly threatened both her career and her life after the assault.[62]
Jennifer Araoz v. Epstein’s estate, Maxwell, and Jane Does 1–3 (2019)
On 14 August 2019, Jennifer Araoz filed a lawsuit in New York County Supreme Court against Epstein’s estate, Maxwell, and three unnamed members of his staff; the lawsuit was made possible under New York state’s new Child Victims Act, which took effect on the same date.[63] Araoz later amended her complaint on October 8, 2019 with the names of the previously unidentified women enablers to include Lesley Groff, Cimberly Espinosa, and the late Rosalyn Fontanilla.[64]
Priscilla Doe v. Epstein’s estate (2019)
Ghislaine Maxwell was named in one of three lawsuits filed in New York on 20 August 2019 against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.[65] The woman filing the suit, identified as “Priscilla Doe”, claimed that she was recruited in 2006 and trained by Maxwell with step-by-step instructions on how to provide sexual services for Epstein.[66][67]
Annie Farmer v. Maxwell and Epstein’s
Estate
(2019)
Annie Farmer, represented by David Boies, sued Maxwell and Epstein’s estate in Federal District Court in Manhattan in November 2019, accusing them of rape, battery and false imprisonment and seeking unspecified damages.[68][5]
Jane Doe v. Maxwell and Epstein’s Estate (2020)
In January 2020, a lawsuit was filed against Maxwell and Epstein alleging that they recruited a 13-year-old music student at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in 1994 and subjected her to sexual abuse.[5] The suit states that Jane Doe was repeatedly sexually assaulted by Epstein over a four year period and that Maxwell played a key role both in her recruitment and by participating in the assaults.[5]
Maxwell v. Epstein’s Estate, Darren K. Indyke, Richard D. Kahn, and NES LLC (2020)
Maxwell filed a lawsuit on 12 March 2020 against Epstein’s estate, which claimed she had been a longtime employee of Epstein (from 1998 to 2006)[69] who had served to manage his property holdings in the U.S. Virgin Islands, New York, New Mexico, Florida and Paris[70] while continuing to deny any knowledge or involvement in his criminal activities.[6][7] According to the lawsuit, filed in Superior Court in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Maxwell was seeking damages for legal fees (associated with defending herself against her accusers) that she claims Epstein had promised to cover for her.[6][7]


veteranstoday--2020-07-04--The Civil Rights Movement and the Collapse of the Black Family

The collapse of the black family we alluded to in an earlier article is inextricably linked to the rise of the Civil Rights Movement .
In his sociological study “ The Origins of African-American Family Structure , ” sociologist and historian Steven Ruggles of the University of Minnesota documents that from 1880 until 1960 , married households with two-parent homes were the general rule of the black family structures .
[ 1 ] Others have argued that in 1880 , black families were nuclear families in places like Philadelphia .
“ Two parent households were generally more common among ex-slaves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ found 80 percent of the time among ex-slaves , while the figure for the freeborn was 77 percent.
” [ 2 ] The church played an important role in this aspect .
In fact , non-churchgoers “ fared considerably less well than their churchgoing neighbors in all significant social indicators : they had smaller families , fewer two-parent households , high residential density levels , and they were disproportionately poor.
” [ 3 ] We see similar data in places like Harlem in the 1920s .
[ 4 ] In 1960 , only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in single-parent families , which means that 78 percent of all black families were structured around mothers and fathers .
[ 5 ] In the same year , “ 51 percent of black females between ages of 15 and 44 were married and living with their husbands , another 20 percent were divorced , widowed , or separated , and only 28 percent had never been married.
” [ 6 ] By the 1970s , one writer argues , “ The radical delegitimation of the family was so pervasive that even people at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ 7 ] By 1994 , 56 percent of black females were never married .
“ While only 22 percent of black children were born to unmarried women in 1960 , 70 percent were by 1994.
” [ 8 ] By 2010 , 72 percent of black children were born to unwed mothers .
[ 9 ] In 2015 , 77 percent of black children were born into fatherless households .
[ 10 ] This obviously has had a catastrophic effect on society in general .
For example , in 1964 “ the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to twenty-four was 12.6 percent ; by 1978 , it was 20 percent .
During the same period , crime rates , in particular those involving young black men , went up.
” [ 11 ] It gets even more interesting .
As Walter E. Williams himself puts it : “ As early as 1900 , the duration of black unemployment was 15 percent shorter than that of whites .
Today it ’ s about 30 percent longer .
Would anyone suggest that during earlier periods , there was less racial discrimination ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ adds : “ What about ghetto riots , crimes in general and murder in particular ?
What about low levels of labor force participation and high levels of welfare dependency ?
None of those things was as bad in the first 100 years after slavery as they became in the wake of the policies and notions of the 1960s.
” [ 13 ] After the 1960s , says Sowell , “ a retrogression toward barbarism ” began to take place .
“ The principal victims of these retrogressions are the decent , law-abiding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who are prey to hoodlums and criminals.
” [ 14 ] Even when it comes to education , the average black did far better before the 1960s .
The history of Dunbar High School , which had a remarkable academic record from 1872 and all the way to the middle of the 1950s , is a classic example .
Founded as an educational Christian school and the first high school for black students , Dunbar High School outperformed two of the other three schools in Washington in the early part of the twentieth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without affirmative action , without the Civil Rights Movement , and without government programs .
Even during the 1950s , when the school was on the brink of falling apart due to social engineering by the Supreme Court and other covert actors , Dunbar was actually sending “ 80 percent of its graduates to college , the highest percentage of any Washington school , white or Negro.
” [ 15 ] This was a consistent pattern for eighty-seven years , and everyone knew that those who had gone to Dunbar “ were highly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dunbar High School “ repeatedly equaled or exceeded national norms or standardized tests in the 1930s , 1940s , and early 1950s.
” [ 17 ] By 1954 , “ more than sixteen thousand young men and women had graduated from the institution…Dunbar was a mighty force in the District.
” [ 18 ] Dunbar students were poorer than the average student today .
In fact , some of the known occupations of the parents of the students who went to Dunbar were janitors , maids , laborers , messengers , and just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the prevailing notion that bad schools are the results of slavery or poverty or even racism is simply historically false .
Those who propound these ideas have never heard of Dunbar High School , nor are they willing to do any serious study on schools that have successfully met the needs of students before the Civil Rights Movement .
Despite poverty and other obstacles , those students survived because both the nuclear family and a school that understood its mission in society were strong .
As one writer puts it : “ The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they were qualified .
Extracurricular tutoring , securing scholarships for graduating seniors , getting parents of promising students to keep them in school despite family finances—all these were part of the voluntary workload of Dunbar teachers and principals… .
“ Latin was taught throughout the period from 1870 to 1955 , and in the early decades , Greek was taught as well…Throughout the 85-year period of its academic ascendancy , Dunbar never had adequate financial support.
” [ 20 ] Stephen Jackson , one of the principals at Dunbar , flesh out his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be a principal , especially at an urban high school , you should not be in your office , because you can not run a building from your office .
You run a building from being in the hallways , being in the classrooms , being in the cafeteria .
Making sure that the building is being run properly .
“ You can not see anything by being in the office .
Rarely do I have meeting in my office during the day .
And that is only because that in order @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must be visible .
The principal must greet the students in the morning .
They must see them off in the afternoon .
They must talk to them during the day .
We have about 900 students here , and I practically know the name of every last one of them.
” [ 21 ] In short , the Civil Rights Movement didn ’ t help the black family ; it weakened the moral and social progress which schools like Dunbar High School made possible .
“ By the 1960s a newspaper story @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Elite Institution Now Typical Slum Facility.
’ ” [ 22 ] By 1973 , programs like the Children ’ s Defense Fund which was created by Marian Wright Edelman , wife of Peter Elderman , attacked the nuclear family by seeing “ children not as the offspring of individual mothers and fathers responsible for rearing them , but as an oppressed class living in generic , nebulous , and never-to-be-analyzed ‘ families.
’ Framing the problem of ghetto children in this way , CDF was able to mount a powerful case for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to daycare to housing subsidies , in the name of children ’ s developmental needs , which did not seem to include either a stable domestic life or , for that matter , fathers.
” [ 23 ] James Q. Wilson again admits that during the Great Depression , crime rates were largely stable or declining but got to a high pitch during the 1960s .
[ 24 ] Spelman College is a classic example .
Originally called Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary , Spelman College was founded in 1881 by Christians who wanted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But in 1960 , during the counter-culture revolution , Spelman College ’ s heritage was completely turned around .
And one of the individuals behind this revolution was then Professor of History , Howard Zinn .
[ 25 ] Zinn , by his own admission , does not even believe in objective history .
“ Objectivity is impossible , ” he declares , “ and it is also undesirable .
That is , if it were possible it would be undesirable , because if you have any kind of social aim , if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some way ; should serve the progress of the human race ; should serve justice in some way ; then it requires that you make your selection on the basis of what you think will advance causes of humanity.
” [ 26 ] While teaching at Spelman as the head of the history department , Zinn got the chance to refashion and mold black writers such as Alice Walker , best known for The Color Purple , and Marian Wright Edelman .
After working tirelessly to encourage the school to join the civil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Zinn began to write articles against the school , which eventually led to his dismissal .
But Zinn ’ s efforts did result in getting a fairly decent percentage of Spelman ’ s students to participate in the civil rights movement , and through his ideology turned those students into revolutionaries Harry G. Lefever , who was a professor of sociology at Spelman during that era , declares , “ In spring 1960 , many of Spelman ’ s students literally broke free from their parochial and conservative past .
With their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the city in a radical direction.
” [ 27 ] In March 1960 , a group of students began protesting , using tactics like sit-ins .
They specifically “ selected restaurants at city and county courthouses , lunch counters located in federal buildings , and cafeterias connected with bus and train terminals as targets for their first sit-ins , since presumably all were covered by the Fourteenth Amendment .
“ Specifically , the students selected lunch counters at the following ten locations : the state capitol , Fulton County Courthouse , City @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Union and Terminal railway stations , S. H. Kress 10-cent store , and two cafeterias—the S & S and Sprayberry—located in federal buildings .
Much of the preparation for the students ’ first major action took place in the living room of Howard and Roz Zinn , who lived in an apartment in the back part of MacVicar Hall on Spelman ’ s campus .
Although the Zinns did not actually sit in with the students in March 15 , Howard Zinn played a significant role.
” [ 28 ] These actions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ including fourteen from Spelman.
” [ 29 ] Yet the student body continued to follow Zinn ’ s revolutionary ideas : “ The class of 1960 dedicated the 1960 volume of Reflections ( the student yearbook ) to Howard Zinn , professor of history and chair of the Social Science Department .
Along with his picture , the students published words of appreciation for his friendship and guidance.
” [ 30 ] The tribute stated that Zinn “ has been an inspiration to the whole Spelman family since his arrival.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had established himself as a revolutionary influence in the lives of the students at Spelman , the moral pendulum in the life of those students began to change for the worst .
In an article entitled “ Finishing School for Pickets , ” Zinn discussed the changed attitude he had helped to inspire in the students .
In the article , Zinn discussed how Spelman students had rejected the ‘ generations-old advice ’ of their elders— ‘ be nice , be well-mannered and ladylike , don ’ t speak loudly , and don @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continued by saying that Spelman girls are still nice , but ‘ not enough to keep them from walking up and down , carrying picket signs in front of the supermarkets in the heart of Atlanta.
’ [ 32 ] Very few people have thoroughly examined these issues through these lenses .
Daniel Patrick Moynihan obviously couldn ’ t do it in 1965 when he released the Moynihan Report .
He did address the issue that the nuclear family is what lacking in the black community , but he never addressed how it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the crime rate among blacks to genes .
[ 33 ] In order for this theory to work , proponents have to ignore the fact that the black family was stronger during the first 100 years after slavery .
As an antidote to the breakdown of the family , Glenn C. Loury argues that people need to return to Logos , and that would provide a foundational basis for moral responsibility , character , and social harmony .
He then concluded : “ My pursuit of personal freedom—my constant quest to be free @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the source of much of my unhappiness.
” [ 34 ] Perhaps Black Lives Matter and other proxy warriors need to listen to Loury here .
• [ 4 ] Joseph Giordano and Irving M. Levin , “ Carter ’ s Family Policy : The Pluralist ’ s Challenge , ” Journal of Current Social Issues , Winter 1977 : 50 .
• [ 10 ] Steven A. Camarota , “ Births to Unmarried Mothers by Nativity and Education , ” Center for Immigration Studies , May 5 , 2017 .
• [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Black Family Is Struggling , and It ’ s Not Because of Slavery , ” Daily Signal , September 20 , 2017 .
• [ 13 ] Thomas Sowell , “ The Scapegoat for Strife in the Black Community , ” National Review , July 17 , 2015 .
• [ 15 ] Alison Stewart , First Class : The Legacy of Dunbar , America ’ s First Black Public High School ( Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books , 2013 ) , 173 .
• [ 26 ] Quoted in Flynn , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ People Fall for Stupid Ideas ( New York : Crown Forum , 2004 ) , 99 .
• [ 34 ] “ Loury ’ s Exodus : A profile of Glenn Loury , ” New Yorker , May 1 , 1995 .

Editor’s Note: Dear readers, I strongly recommend viewing the whole video at the end as it is one of the most interesting ones I have seen on the American civil rights topic.
Not mentioned in the video, to add framing is that the Dunbar school’s philosophy was similar to Booker T. Washington’s, where he advised that the improvement to living conditions in the black community was to focus on education to ensure that all could be gainfully employed to have economic security.
This would create the conditions for stable family situations where young people were surrounded by positive role models throughout their community. Unfortunately, there was a white backlash to some of this based purely on envy. The Southern semi or fully ignorant white class is still with us today.
I was shocked to learn in the video that not only was Dunbar the first public black high school in the country, but it also accomplished this when no white public high school yet existed.
During my years in Atlanta, I learned that it had charted its own path toward civil rights improvement during the flag fight controversy. I did a Jim Dean Journal Show with ex-Governor, WWII disabled Vet Ernst Vandiver, where he described how Georgia dodge a lot of the early civil rights turmoil that had gone on in Alabama. This was the first live audience I ever had
All though there was a hand full of legislative hard liners that wanted civil rights legislation to proceed slowly, the majority, all white and all male, put a complete package together that passed with an overwhelming majority. You will need to hire a detective to find any mention of this in the historical record.
Unfortunately, when the NAACP with its early backers from a specific ethnic-religious group began demanding government management for dealing with the problem, the success of the Booker T. Washington movement was targeted.
As Gordon has so often said, “It’s a nasty world out there”…Jim W. Dean
The collapse of the black family we alluded to in an earlier article is inextricably linked to the rise of the Civil Rights Movement. In his sociological study “The Origins of African-American Family Structure,” sociologist and historian Steven Ruggles of the University of Minnesota documents that from 1880 until 1960, married households with two-parent homes were the general rule of the black family structures.[1]
Others have argued that in 1880, black families were nuclear families in places like Philadelphia. “Two-parent households were generally more common among ex-slaves. Taken together, two-parent households were found 80 percent of the time among ex-slaves, while the figure for the freeborn was 77 percent.”[2]
The church played an important role in this aspect. In fact, non-churchgoers “fared considerably less well than their churchgoing neighbors in all significant social indicators: they had smaller families, fewer two-parent households, high residential density levels, and they were disproportionately poor.”[3] We see similar data in places like Harlem in the 1920s.[4]
In 1960, only 22 percent of black children were raised in single-parent families, which means that 78 percent of all black families were structured around mothers and fathers.[5] In the same year, “51 percent of black females between ages of 15 and 44 were married and living with their husbands, another 20 percent were divorced, widowed, or separated, and only 28 percent had never been married.”[6] By the 1970s, one writer argues, “The radical delegitimation of the family was so pervasive that even people at the center of power joined in.”[7]
By 1994, 56 percent of black females were never married. “While only 22 percent of black children were born to unmarried women in 1960, 70 percent were by 1994.”[8] By 2010, 72 percent of black children were born to unwed mothers.[9] In 2015, 77 percent of black children were born into fatherless households.[10]
This obviously has had a catastrophic effect on society in general. For example, in 1964 “the unemployment rate for black men aged twenty to twenty-four was 12.6 percent; by 1978, it was 20 percent. During the same period, crime rates, in particular those involving young black men, went up.”[11]
It gets even more interesting. As Walter E. Williams himself puts it: “As early as 1900, the duration of black unemployment was 15 percent shorter than that of whites. Today it’s about 30 percent longer. Would anyone suggest that during earlier periods, there was less racial discrimination?”[12] Thomas Sowell himself adds:
“What about ghetto riots, crimes in general, and murder in particular? What about low levels of labor force participation and high levels of welfare dependency? None of those things was as bad in the first 100 years after slavery as they became in the wake of the policies and notions of the 1960s.”[13]
After the 1960s, says Sowell, “a retrogression toward barbarism” began to take place. “The principal victims of these retrogressions are the decent, law-abiding members of black communities across the country who are prey to hoodlums and criminals.”[14]
Even when it comes to education, the average black did far better before the 1960s. The history of Dunbar High School, which had a remarkable academic record from 1872 all the way to the middle of the 1950s, is a classic example.
Founded as an educational Christian school and the first high school for black students, Dunbar High School outperformed two of the other three schools in Washington in the early part of the twentieth century. The school was a success without affirmative action, without the Civil Rights Movement, and without government programs.
Even during the 1950s, when the school was on the brink of falling apart due to social engineering by the Supreme Court and other covert actors, Dunbar was actually sending “80 percent of its graduates to college, the highest percentage of any Washington school, white or Negro.”[15] This was a consistent pattern for eighty-seven years, and everyone knew that those who had gone to Dunbar “were highly motivated academic students…”[16]
Dunbar High School “repeatedly equaled or exceeded national norms or standardized tests in the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s.”[17] By 1954, “more than sixteen thousand young men and women had graduated from the institution…Dunbar was a mighty force in the District.”[18] Dunbar students were poorer than the average student today. In fact, some of the known occupations of the parents of the students who went to Dunbar were janitors, maids, laborers, messengers, and just one doctor.[19]
So the prevailing notion that bad schools are the results of slavery or poverty or even racism is simply historically false. Those who propound these ideas have never heard of Dunbar High School, nor are they willing to do any serious study on schools that have successfully met the needs of students before the Civil Rights Movement. Despite poverty and other obstacles, those students survived because both the nuclear family and a school that understood its mission in society were strong. As one writer puts it:
“The teachers were as dedicated and demanding as they were qualified. Extracurricular tutoring, securing scholarships for graduating seniors, getting parents of promising students to keep them in school despite family finances—all these were part of the voluntary workload of Dunbar teachers and principals.
“Latin was taught throughout the period from 1870 to 1955, and in the early decades, Greek was taught as well…Throughout the 85-year period of its academic ascendancy, Dunbar never had adequate financial support.”[20]
Stephen Jackson, one of the principals at Dunbar, flesh out his philosophy this way:
“In order to be a principal, especially at an urban high school, you should not be in your office, because you cannot run a building from your office. You run a building from being in the hallways, being in the classrooms, being in the cafeteria. Making sure that the building is being run properly.
“You cannot see anything by being in the office. Rarely do I have meetings in my office during the day. And that is only because in order to turn schools around, the principal must be visible. The principal must greet the students in the morning. They must see them off in the afternoon. They must talk to them during the day. We have about 900 students here, and I practically know the name of every last one of them.”[21]
In short, the Civil Rights Movement didn’t help the black family; it weakened the moral and social progress which schools like Dunbar High School made possible. “By the 1960s a newspaper story on the school was titled ‘Black Elite Institution Now Typical Slum Facility.’”[22]
By 1973, programs like the Children’s Defense Fund which was created by Marian Wright Edelman, wife of Peter Elderman, attacked the nuclear family by seeing
“children not as the offspring of individual mothers and fathers responsible for rearing them, but as an oppressed class living in generic, nebulous, and never-to-be-analyzed ‘families.’ Framing the problem of ghetto children in this way, CDF was able to mount a powerful case for a host of services, from prenatal care to daycare to housing subsidies, in the name of children’s developmental needs, which did not seem to include either a stable domestic life or, for that matter, fathers.”[23]
James Q. Wilson again admits that during the Great Depression, crime rates were largely stable or declining but got to a high pitch during the 1960s.[24] Spelman College is a classic example. Originally called Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman College was founded in 1881 by Christians who wanted to improve the education of blacks. But in 1960, during the counter-culture revolution, Spelman College’s heritage was completely turned around. And one of the individuals behind this revolution was then Professor of History, Howard Zinn.[25]
Zinn, by his own admission, does not even believe in objective history. “Objectivity is impossible,” he declares, “and it is also undesirable. That is if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of social aim if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the human race; should serve justice in some way; then it requires that you make your selection on the basis of what you think will advance causes of humanity.”[26]
While teaching at Spelman as the head of the history department, Zinn got the chance to refashion and mold black writers such as Alice Walker, best known for The Color Purple, and Marian Wright Edelman. After working tirelessly to encourage the school to join the civil rights movement in the 1960s but failing, Zinn began to write articles against the school, which eventually led to his dismissal. But Zinn’s efforts did result in getting a fairly decent percentage of Spelman’s students to participate in the civil rights movement, and through his ideology turned those students into revolutionaries
Harry G. Lefever, who was a professor of sociology at Spelman during that era, declares, “In spring 1960, many of Spelman’s students literally broke free from their parochial and conservative past. With their statements and actions, they turned the campus and the city in a radical direction.”[27]
In March 1960, a group of students began protesting, using tactics like sit-ins. They specifically
“selected restaurants at city and county courthouses, lunch counters located in federal buildings, and cafeterias connected with bus and train terminals as targets for their first sit-ins, since presumably all were covered by the Fourteenth Amendment.
“Specifically, the students selected lunch counters at the following ten locations: the state capitol, Fulton County Courthouse, City Halls, Trailways and Greyhound bus stations, Union and Terminal railway stations, S. H. Kress 10-cent store, and two cafeterias—the S&S and Sprayberry—located in federal buildings. Much of the preparation for the student’s first major action took place in the living room of Howard and Roz Zinn, who lived in an apartment in the back part of MacVicar Hall on Spelman’s campus. Although the Zinns did not actually sit in with the students on March 15, Howard Zinn played a significant role.”[28]
These actions led to the arrest of seventy students, “including fourteen from Spelman.”[29] Yet the student body continued to follow Zinn’s revolutionary ideas: “The class of 1960 dedicated the 1960 volume of Reflections (the student yearbook) to Howard Zinn, professor of history and chair of the Social Science Department. Along with his picture, the students published words of appreciation for his friendship and guidance.”[30] The tribute stated that Zinn “has been an inspiration to the whole Spelman family since his arrival.”[31]
By the time Zinn had established himself as a revolutionary influence in the lives of the students at Spelman, the moral pendulum in the life of those students began to change for the worst. In an article entitled “Finishing School for Pickets,” Zinn discussed the changed attitude he had helped to inspire in the students.
In the article, Zinn discussed how Spelman students had rejected the ‘generations-old advice’ of their elders—‘be nice, be well-mannered and ladylike, don’t speak loudly, and don’t get into trouble.’ He continued by saying that Spelman girls are still nice, but ‘not enough to keep them from walking up and down, carrying picket signs in front of the supermarkets in the heart of Atlanta.’[32]
Very few people have thoroughly examined these issues through these lenses. Daniel Patrick Moynihan obviously couldn’t do it in 1965 when he released the Moynihan Report. He did address the issue that the nuclear family is lacking in the black community, but he never addressed how it got into disarray.
Others have attributed the crime rate among blacks to genes.[33] In order for this theory to work, proponents have to ignore the fact that the black family was stronger during the first 100 years after slavery. As an antidote to the breakdown of the family, Glenn C. Loury argues that people need to return to Logos, and that would provide a foundational basis for moral responsibility, character, and social harmony. He then concluded: “My pursuit of personal freedom—my constant quest to be free of constraint, to be unfettered—has been the source of much of my unhappiness.”[34]
Perhaps Black Lives Matter and other proxy warriors need to listen to Loury here.


veteranstoday--2020-07-03--Vltchek: Why is China Painted as ‘Capitalist’ by Western Propaganda?

Let us start with the punchline : “ Mass media in the United States , Europe , Canada , and Australia is depicting the People ’ s Republic of China as ‘ capitalist ’ because ‘ capitalist ’ is now a dirty word .
Even people in the West see ‘ market economy ’ as some sort of filth.
” To call China ‘ capitalist ’ is to smear China .
It is as if to say : “ Chinese people are precisely like us .
China is doing to the world the same injustice , committing the same crimes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years.
” Western , but particularly the British and the U.S. demagogy , have managed to reach ‘ heights ’ of nothing lesser than deadly perfection .
They already conditioned billions of brains , in all corners of the world , forced them into the uniformed , servile way of thinking .
All this is not just propaganda anymore ; it is the true art of indoctrination .
It hardly ever misses its target .
And even if it fails to convince some strong individuals completely , it always leaves a mark on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ struggling to be different and ‘ independent.
’ In short : Western propaganda is perfect .
It is deadly .
Until now , it is bulletproof .
All those terms like “ capitalist China , ” “ Chinese state capitalism , ” are violating the truth , and they are repeated over and over again until no one dares to contradict them anymore .
The same goes for the lies about Uyghurs , Hong Kong , the Sino-Indian border , as well as various historical events .
But why really to lie about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The answer is simple : it is because of most people associate words like ‘ socialism ’ and ‘ Communism ’ with hope .
Yes , they do !
At least subconsciously .
Even after decades of brainwashing and smear campaigns !
“ Socialist China ” means “ China which brings optimism to its own people and humanity.
” On the other hand , people on all continents associate ‘ capitalism ’ with something depressing , stale , and regressive .
Therefore , call China ‘ capitalist ’ , and it evokes feelings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ capitalist West can not compete with socialism , anymore .
Therefore , it tries to drag it through filth , tries to destroy it .
Either indirectly , by sanctions and attempts to orchestrate coups in places like Iran , DPRK , Bolivia , Cuba , and Venezuela , or directly , like in the Middle East .
China is being attacked on ‘ all fronts , ’ from economic ones to ideological , although not yet militarily .
The most powerful and repulsive weapon , so far , has been constant injections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Just look at Hong Kong !
Nihilism is deadly .
It destroys enthusiasm , and it robs countries of confidence and courage .
And that is precisely what the West is trying to achieve : to derail progressive socialist countries from marching forward and prevent nations oppressed by neo-colonialism from dreaming , hoping , resisting .
( I described this destructive process in my book “ Revolutionary Optimism , Western Nihilism ” ) .
The Western demagogues know : China robbed of its essence – and the essence is “ the Socialism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which can not inspire , can not offer alternatives to the world .
The most effective way to smear China , to silence it , is precisely to convince the world that it is ‘ capitalist.
’ Such techniques were used , for instance , by German Nazis who claimed that resistance against their occupation actually consisted of a bunch of terrorists .
The U.S. is known to do the same .
Or the British Empire , which christened rebellious local people in its colonies as “ hordes of savages.
” Just reverse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shamelessly , turn them upside-down , repeat your lies thousands of times , print them in all your mass media outlets .
Chances are , your fabrications would be eventually accepted by billions of people .
In the case of China , West is trying to convince the world that PRC is the same type of gangster states like the United States or Great Britain , France , or Canada .
It is doing it by calling China capitalist , by calling it even imperialist .
By ridiculously equating China ’ s behavior @ @ @ @ @ @ @ powers .
By declaring that China is oppressing its own minorities , as the West has been doing for centuries .
But China is not a capitalist country , as it is not an imperialist one .
It is the least expansionist major country on the Planet .
It does not kill millions of human beings worldwide , it does not overthrow governments in foreign countries , and it is not robbing already destitute nations of all they have left .
It is not governed by bankers and oligarchs .
Instead , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Its private and state companies have to obey the government and the people .
They have to produce goods and services in order to improve the standard of living of the nation and the world .
Companies are precisely told what to do by the government , which represents the people , not the other way around , as happens in the West .
Because in the West , it is companies that are selecting the governments !
That is socialism .
“ Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
” The socialism which managed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the country with almost 1.4 billion inhabitants .
The socialism which is building “ Ecological civilization ” .
The socialism which is connecting the world , including , until now , the destitute countries on Earth , through the “ Belt and Road Initiative ” .
In China , democracy is not about sticking pieces of paper into a box .
It is literally the ‘ rule of the people ’ ; it is all about the country which is developing in a socialist way , consistently making lives of its men @ @ @ @ @ @ @ better , year after year .
It is a fresh , optimistic , constantly improving , and evolving system .
Ask people in the Chinese cities and the countryside , and they will tell you .
The vast majority of them are happy ; they are hopeful and optimistic .
Ask people in the North American cities or countryside , and… you know what they will tell you .
That increasingly , life is s**t !
The big problem is that majority of North Americans and Europeans know China only from the hardly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the television set or from the heavily censored Yahoo or Google ‘ front ’ news pages .
Many of those who go to , or who “ do China ” are traveling in groups , visiting major tourist destinations only .
Even that is , of course , much better than nothing .
China is impressive everywhere .
But only a small fraction of the Westerners , those who dare to pass judgments , know China in depth .
This includes even such ‘ top White House advisors , ’ like Peter Kent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy , who knows close to nothing about China , speaks no Chinese , but writes anti-Chinese books .
Or such as senior Republican Senator Marco Antonio Rubio .
And the propagandists in London , Paris , and New York are well aware of the lack of knowledge about China , at least in the West .
They feel free to declare and to publish the most outrageous lies and fabrications because they know they ’ d not be confronted .
And if confronted , they ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who ’ d dare to contradict them .
How many times have you seen on a British television channel , a Chinese Communist man or a woman , speaking about his or her country ?
Never !
It is forbidden .
Truth is not allowed , at least in the West .
Only those Chinese people who are tugging the Western propaganda line can speak freely on Western channels .
Never thought about it ?
Then think !
Or , how many Russians , pro-President Putin or pro-Communist , have you ever heard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Media is digging out the filthiest chapters of Western history , and without blinking an eye , turns things around and attributes them to China .
Australians , North Americans have been sterilizing native , Roma , Aborigines , or other women .
So , they invent , say that China is doing it now .
For centuries , West has been locking people in its colonies and even in Europe , in the concentration camps .
In a twisted way , propaganda gurus in London and Washington are attributing such behavior @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Let your imagination run wild .
People are used to lies .
They are obedient , brainwashed .
And they like it when other , non-Western nations are smeared , especially when they are accused of the same crimes which Europe and the United States have been committing for centuries .
It makes them feel less guilty .
They can then say : “ The entire world is disgusting .
We are all equally terrible !
” Perhaps , after these propaganda assaults , there is no more hope left .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is no rush to shed those complexes of superiority , and to get rid of the privileges .
And so , ‘ China is capitalist !
’ While baobabs are actually bougainvillea .
Western-imposed global dictatorship is , believe it or not , democratic .
And Western advisors have a full moral mandate to lecture the world .
Some Chinese Communist Party officials are now banned [ by the West ] from traveling to the United States .
In contrast , the U.S. officials , who are responsible for ordering mass killings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can travel virtually anywhere .
The Communist Party of China is responsible for building a prosperous , highly educated , and increasingly ecologically sound nation of almost 1.4 billion .
While the Imperialist apparatchiks of the United States are responsible for overthrowing countless progressive governments , bombing millions of people , ruining the environment in the colonies , and starving hundreds of millions through sanctions .
But they are not sanctioned themselves and can go almost anywhere they desire .
Strange world ?
Go figure… The better China is doing , the more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to do even better in the future , it may get attacked directly , perhaps even militarily .
And rest assured that socialist China will be doing better and better .
Yes , you are guessing correctly : Under the banner of the Communist Party !
So , what should we prepare ourselves for ?
World War III ?
Annihilation of the human race ?
Just because the West doesn ’ t know how to lose ?
Just because capitalism and imperialism would not let go of their global grip on power , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all of us ?
Just because North America and Europe are notorious liars , suffering from pathological complexes of superiority , as well as genocidal instincts ?
I don ’ t think this is a good prospect for our Planet .
I ’ d much rather bet on optimistic , socialist China , instead of on the Western system which in the last 500+ years has already murdered hundreds of millions of people and which is , until now , covering up its crimes and its undeniable mental illness .
And not only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rather join China , which is building a much better and ethical world .
As we all should do !
As some of us are already doing .
[ First published by NEO – New Eastern Outlook – a journal of the Russian academy of Sciences ] Andre Vltchek is a philosopher , novelist , filmmaker and investigative journalist .
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By: Andre Vltchek for VT
Let us start with the punchline: “Mass media in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia is depicting the People’s Republic of China as ‘capitalist’ because ‘capitalist’ is now a dirty word. Even people in the West see ‘market economy’ as some sort of filth.”
To call China ‘capitalist’ is to smear China. It is as if to say: “Chinese people are precisely like us. China is doing to the world the same injustice, committing the same crimes as we have been doing for 500+ years.”
Western, but particularly the British and the U.S. demagogy, have managed to reach ‘heights’ of nothing lesser than deadly perfection. They already conditioned billions of brains, in all corners of the world, forced them into the uniformed, servile way of thinking. All this is not just propaganda anymore; it is the true art of indoctrination. It hardly ever misses its target. And even if it fails to convince some strong individuals completely, it always leaves a mark on the psyche of even those who are struggling to be different and ‘independent.’
In short: Western propaganda is perfect. It is deadly. Until now, it is bulletproof.
All those terms like “capitalist China,” “Chinese state capitalism,” are violating the truth, and they are repeated over and over again until no one dares to contradict them anymore.
The same goes for the lies about Uyghurs, Hong Kong, the Sino-Indian border, as well as various historical events.
But why really to lie about China ‘not being socialist’?
The answer is simple: it is because of most people associate words like ‘socialism’ and ‘Communism’ with hope. Yes, they do! At least subconsciously. Even after decades of brainwashing and smear campaigns! “Socialist China” means “China which brings optimism to its own people and humanity.” On the other hand, people on all continents associate ‘capitalism’ with something depressing, stale, and regressive. Therefore, call China ‘capitalist’, and it evokes feelings of gloominess and slump.
Imperialist, capitalist West cannot compete with socialism, anymore. Therefore, it tries to drag it through filth, tries to destroy it. Either indirectly, by sanctions and attempts to orchestrate coups in places like Iran, DPRK, Bolivia, Cuba, and Venezuela, or directly, like in the Middle East. China is being attacked on ‘all fronts,’ from economic ones to ideological, although not yet militarily. The most powerful and repulsive weapon, so far, has been constant injections of lies, contradictions, and nihilism. Just look at Hong Kong!
Nihilism is deadly. It destroys enthusiasm, and it robs countries of confidence and courage.
And that is precisely what the West is trying to achieve: to derail progressive socialist countries from marching forward and prevent nations oppressed by neo-colonialism from dreaming, hoping, resisting. (I described this destructive process in my book “Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism”).
The Western demagogues know: China robbed of its essence – and the essence is “the Socialism with Chinese characteristics” – is China which cannot inspire, cannot offer alternatives to the world. The most effective way to smear China, to silence it, is precisely to convince the world that it is ‘capitalist.’
Such techniques were used, for instance, by German Nazis who claimed that resistance against their occupation actually consisted of a bunch of terrorists. The U.S. is known to do the same. Or the British Empire, which christened rebellious local people in its colonies as “hordes of savages.” Just reverse the truth and win!
Twist things shamelessly, turn them upside-down, repeat your lies thousands of times, print them in all your mass media outlets. Chances are, your fabrications would be eventually accepted by billions of people.
In the case of China, West is trying to convince the world that PRC is the same type of gangster states like the United States or Great Britain, France, or Canada. It is doing it by calling China capitalist, by calling it even imperialist. By ridiculously equating China’s behavior to the behavior of the Western colonialist powers. By declaring that China is oppressing its own minorities, as the West has been doing for centuries.
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But China is not a capitalist country, as it is not an imperialist one. It is the least expansionist major country on the Planet.
It does not kill millions of human beings worldwide, it does not overthrow governments in foreign countries, and it is not robbing already destitute nations of all they have left.
It is not governed by bankers and oligarchs. Instead, it is directed by the socialist 5-year plans. Its private and state companies have to obey the government and the people. They have to produce goods and services in order to improve the standard of living of the nation and the world. Companies are precisely told what to do by the government, which represents the people, not the other way around, as happens in the West. Because in the West, it is companies that are selecting the governments!
That is socialism. “Socialism with Chinese characteristics.” The socialism which managed to get rid of all extreme poverty in the country with almost 1.4 billion inhabitants. The socialism which is building “Ecological civilization”. The socialism which is connecting the world, including, until now, the destitute countries on Earth, through the “Belt and Road Initiative”.
In China, democracy is not about sticking pieces of paper into a box. It is literally the ‘rule of the people’; it is all about the country which is developing in a socialist way, consistently making lives of its men, women, and children better and better, year after year.
It is a fresh, optimistic, constantly improving, and evolving system. Ask people in the Chinese cities and the countryside, and they will tell you. The vast majority of them are happy; they are hopeful and optimistic.
Ask people in the North American cities or countryside, and… you know what they will tell you. That increasingly, life is s**t!
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The big problem is that majority of North Americans and Europeans know China only from the hardly strategic position of their couch commonly facing the television set or from the heavily censored Yahoo or Google ‘front’ news pages.
Many of those who go to, or who “do China” are traveling in groups, visiting major tourist destinations only. Even that is, of course, much better than nothing. China is impressive everywhere.
But only a small fraction of the Westerners, those who dare to pass judgments, know China in depth. This includes even such ‘top White House advisors,’ like Peter Kent Navarro, Assistant to President Donald Trump and Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, who knows close to nothing about China, speaks no Chinese, but writes anti-Chinese books. Or such as senior Republican Senator Marco Antonio Rubio.
And the propagandists in London, Paris, and New York are well aware of the lack of knowledge about China, at least in the West. They feel free to declare and to publish the most outrageous lies and fabrications because they know they’d not be confronted. And if confronted, they’d easily manage to censure those individuals who’d dare to contradict them.
How many times have you seen on a British television channel, a Chinese Communist man or a woman, speaking about his or her country? Never! It is forbidden. Truth is not allowed, at least in the West. Only those Chinese people who are tugging the Western propaganda line can speak freely on Western channels. Never thought about it? Then think! Or, how many Russians, pro-President Putin or pro-Communist, have you ever heard on the British or U.S. radio stations?
The Western firewall is complete.
Media is digging out the filthiest chapters of Western history, and without blinking an eye, turns things around and attributes them to China. Australians, North Americans have been sterilizing native, Roma, Aborigines, or other women. So, they invent, say that China is doing it now. For centuries, West has been locking people in its colonies and even in Europe, in the concentration camps. In a twisted way, propaganda gurus in London and Washington are attributing such behavior to China.
No proof is needed. Let your imagination run wild. People are used to lies. They are obedient, brainwashed. And they like it when other, non-Western nations are smeared, especially when they are accused of the same crimes which Europe and the United States have been committing for centuries. It makes them feel less guilty. They can then say: “The entire world is disgusting. We are all equally terrible!”
Perhaps, after these propaganda assaults, there is no more hope left. But at least, in the West, there is no rush to shed those complexes of superiority, and to get rid of the privileges.
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And so, ‘China is capitalist!’ While baobabs are actually bougainvillea. Western-imposed global dictatorship is, believe it or not, democratic. And Western advisors have a full moral mandate to lecture the world.
Some Chinese Communist Party officials are now banned [by the West] from traveling to the United States. In contrast, the U.S. officials, who are responsible for ordering mass killings in all parts of the world, can travel virtually anywhere.
The Communist Party of China is responsible for building a prosperous, highly educated, and increasingly ecologically sound nation of almost 1.4 billion. While the Imperialist apparatchiks of the United States are responsible for overthrowing countless progressive governments, bombing millions of people, ruining the environment in the colonies, and starving hundreds of millions through sanctions. But they are not sanctioned themselves and can go almost anywhere they desire. Strange world? Go figure…
The better China is doing, the more it gets smeared. If it manages to do even better in the future, it may get attacked directly, perhaps even militarily.
And rest assured that socialist China will be doing better and better. Yes, you are guessing correctly: Under the banner of the Communist Party!
So, what should we prepare ourselves for? World War III? Annihilation of the human race? Just because the West doesn’t know how to lose? Just because capitalism and imperialism would not let go of their global grip on power, even if it means the end for all of us?
Just because North America and Europe are notorious liars, suffering from pathological complexes of superiority, as well as genocidal instincts?
I don’t think this is a good prospect for our Planet.
I’d much rather bet on optimistic, socialist China, instead of on the Western system which in the last 500+ years has already murdered hundreds of millions of people and which is, until now, covering up its crimes and its undeniable mental illness.
And not only ‘bet’; I’d rather join China, which is building a much better and ethical world. As we all should do! As some of us are already doing.
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[First published by NEO – New Eastern Outlook – a journal of the Russian academy of Sciences]


veteranstoday--2020-07-03--Professor Fired for Tweeting “All Lives Matter” Rehired After Recanting and Admitting “No Lives Matt

Professor Fired for Tweeting “All Lives Matter” Rehired After Recanting and Admitting “No Lives Matter”

Philosophy Professor Fuddley Dudwhump of Miskatonic University , fired last week for tweeting “ all lives matter , ” was rehired yesterday after his tearful recantation was viewed thousands of times on YouTube , eliciting dozens of favorable comments .
“ I was wrong , so terribly , awfully wrong , ” Dudwhump sobs in the video .
“ What ever could have made me tweet ‘ all lives matter ?
’ That is a horrific , insensitive thing to say .
And what ’ s more , it is obviously not true .
The truth , of course , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We are mere specks of animated mud , crawling like microscopic insects across the face of slightly-better-than-average but rapidly deteriorating planet in a garden-variety solar system two-thirds of the way out a random and not particularly distinguished arm of a fairly typical galaxy amidst the hundred billion or so that have thus far been detected .
To think that the lives of any one of the more than seven billion humans infesting this minuscule , insignificant planet called Earth really matter would be a grossly intolerable and deeply offensive conceit .
Nobody who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be employed in today ’ s secular materialist academy , which holds that humans , and indeed life itself , are simply cosmic accidents , accretions of random mutations with no inherent value whatsoever .
Claiming that all lives matter—all seven billion human lives—is as absurd as claiming that all grains of sand on all the oceans ’ beaches matter , or that all the ants in all of the earth ’ s anthills matter , or that all of the atoms of stardust in all the Milky Way ’ s stars matters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cosmic scheme of things , a single human life is nothing !
Nada !
Zilch !
Waloo !
And quite frankly , since my own life doesn ’ t matter , and nor does anyone else ’ s , I can ’ t imagine why anyone should care whether I choose to make an absurdly specious claim like ‘ all lives matter , ’ or recant it by admitting the truth , which is that obviously no lives matter , nor does anything else when you really get down to it .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fired .
Claiming that anything whatsoever matters , or that human lives are somehow more than just randomness acting on dead matter in space-time , is damnable heresy to the secular materialists who run the academy .
So it was only natural that they ran me out of town on a proverbial rail .
And it will be equally natural when they re-hire me after I confess my sin and swear on a leather-bound copy of Darwin ’ s Origin of Speciesthat never again will I hold that anything or anyone matters in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ statement accepting Duddwhump ’ s apology , adding that since Duddwhump and his offensive statement didn ’ t matter at all in the cosmic scheme of things , nor did balancing the University budget , the professor would be reinstated and his salary raised a hundredfold .

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Philosophy Professor Fuddley Dudwhump of Miskatonic University, fired last week for tweeting “all lives matter,” was rehired yesterday after his tearful recantation was viewed thousands of times on YouTube, eliciting dozens of favorable comments.
“I was wrong, so terribly, awfully wrong,” Dudwhump sobs in the video. “What ever could have made me tweet ‘all lives matter?’ That is a horrific, insensitive thing to say. And what’s more, it is obviously not true. The truth, of course, is that ‘no lives matter.’ We are mere specks of animated mud, crawling like microscopic insects across the face of slightly-better-than-average but rapidly deteriorating planet in a garden-variety solar system two-thirds of the way out a random and not particularly distinguished arm of a fairly typical galaxy amidst the hundred billion or so that have thus far been detected. To think that the lives of any one of the more than seven billion humans infesting this minuscule, insignificant planet called Earth really matter would be a grossly intolerable and deeply offensive conceit. Nobody who thinks that any lives matter deserves to be employed in today’s secular materialist academy, which holds that humans, and indeed life itself, are simply cosmic accidents, accretions of random mutations with no inherent value whatsoever. Claiming that all lives matter—all seven billion human lives—is as absurd as claiming that all grains of sand on all the oceans’ beaches matter, or that all the ants in all of the earth’s anthills matter, or that all of the atoms of stardust in all the Milky Way’s stars matters. The fact is, in the cosmic scheme of things, a single human life is nothing! Nada! Zilch! Waloo! And quite frankly, since my own life doesn’t matter, and nor does anyone else’s, I can’t imagine why anyone should care whether I choose to make an absurdly specious claim like ‘all lives matter,’ or recant it by admitting the truth, which is that obviously no lives matter, nor does anything else when you really get down to it.
“But I do understand why I was fired. Claiming that anything whatsoever matters, or that human lives are somehow more than just randomness acting on dead matter in space-time, is damnable heresy to the secular materialists who run the academy. So it was only natural that they ran me out of town on a proverbial rail. And it will be equally natural when they re-hire me after I confess my sin and swear on a leather-bound copy of Darwin’s Origin of Species that never again will I hold that anything or anyone matters in the slightest.”
The University issued a statement accepting Duddwhump’s apology, adding that since Duddwhump and his offensive statement didn’t matter at all in the cosmic scheme of things, nor did balancing the University budget, the professor would be reinstated and his salary raised a hundredfold.
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist is one of America’s best-known critics of the War on Terror. He is the host of TRUTH JIHAD RADIO; a hard-driving weekly radio show funded by listener subscriptions at Substack and the weekly news roundup FALSE FLAG WEEKLY NEWS (FFWN). He also has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS, and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin; where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host. Archived Articles (2004-2016) www.truthjihad.com


veteranstoday--2020-07-03--Hey Trump, Mt. Rushmore Has Ties to White Supremacy Groups

Each year , two million visitors walk or roll from the entrance of Mount Rushmore National Memorial , in South Dakota , to the Avenue of Flags , to peer up at the 60-foot visages of George Washington , Thomas Jefferson , Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt .
Dedicated 75 years ago this month , Mount Rushmore was intended by its creator , Gutzon Borglum , to be a celebration of not only these four presidents but also the nation ’ s unprecedented greatness .
“ This colossus is our mark , ” he wrote with typical bombast .
Yet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that this beloved site is also a testament to the ego and ugly ambition that undergird even our best-known triumphs .
In 1914 , Borglum was a sculptor in Connecticut of modest acclaim when he received an inquiry from the elderly president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy , C. Helen Plane , about building a “ shrine to the South ” near Atlanta .
When he first glimpsed “ the virgin stone ” of his canvas , a quartz hump called Stone Mountain , Borglum later recalled , “ I saw @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all my life.
” He sketched out a vast sculpture of generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson , and was hired .
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