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It never ceases to amaze me what people will believe…
I mean, think about it! Corporatist klanners (the Tea Party) are shocked that their “non-profit” fronts have been targeted for investigation by the IRS for illicit political activity?
Their corporate-owned and operated “news” media lead the mob in witch-hunting this dastardly deed. Meanwhile, neo-liberals stifle their mirth behind a façade of investigating “the usual suspects.” more…
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Over the course of some 400 published articles in this blog, I’ve written a number that refer to my criminal case. For easy reference, I will condense here the basic elements that led to that trial, conviction and sentence.
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia…
The trial itself was a 2-wk affair before a jury in Detroit federal court, Aug-Sept of 1990 before Judge Bernard A. Friedman.
A former Wayne County prosecutor, he was appointed to the bench by Ronald Reagan in 1988. I was his first major trial. more…
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NOTE: Let’s see if we can get away from the round-the-clock news re the Boston Marathon and the Texas plant explosion. The first was–whatever else–a state-power exercise in total control over the mass-population of a major American city. You can bet that lesson was not lost on our ultimate rulers. “A new normal…”
Texas was a conservative opportunity in the diversion of blame regarding their continuing destruction of “big gov’t,” to wit: all corporatist responsibility in addition to any regulations regarding public safety and service.
Perhaps the former is simply serendipity, but the latter? Direct causality. In both cases, adding ethnic and class alienation, we can expect a whole more…
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The following article was forwarded to me by Rabbi Michael Lerner from the Tikkun Daily site. I present it below (edited for space):
Puppets & Jackals…
In 1990, Secretary of State James Baker had basically had it up to here with the Israeli government. The Bush administration [George the Elder] had been trying to entice Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir into negotiations with the Palestinians, but he kept adding new conditions to get the US off his back. more…
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The corporate criminals now ruling Detroit hardly bother disguising their intent any longer. For them it’s open class war and most of the victims are clueless as to the source of their social and political impoverishment.
Detroit: A Fixer-Upper…
From time to time, as capital-corporatism is confronted with its own Ponzi-like profiteering, these privateers either accept a compromise from their unbridled predatory practice or seek to place the full burden of their theft on the “lower” classes. Today, they’re going for the Full Monte…again. more…
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Fortunately, Cass Corridor’s own Sixto Rodriguez won’t awaken this April Fool’s Day to a faux surprise. He really is now recognized as all the talent that he imagined himself to be these past 50 years-or-so. Rolling Stone magazine just reported that he’s now “making $millions” on the road. We’ve all heard the “Cinderella Story“…(if one can imagine her at the Ball at 70)…
Sixto Rodriguez at 70 in Paris…
Watching the Academy Awards I was surprised that “Searching for Sugar Man” won. I assumed that it would go to the Israeli documentary, “The Gatekeepers,” or the Palestinian, “Five Broken Cameras.”
However–for Sixto as well as Detroit in these times–that selection was no less than a cosmic act of justice and synchronicity. more…
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What remained of democracy in Detroit has now been usurped under corporatist rule by Michigan’s Governor, Rick Snyder.
Atty. Kevyn Duane Orr (55)…
Snyder, a venture-capitalist CPA who made his $millions as a Gateway board-director and other enterprises that exported jobs overseas, has appointed Attorney Kevyn Orr to lead point in the latest phase of the corporatist plan: America, Inc.
In an act of ironic synchronicity, Orr is a younger lookalike to another racial quisling, Clarence Thomas, one of the Gang of Five on the US Supreme Court. more…
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I got off the Trailways in downtown Detroit Saturday morning, the 18th of September, 1965. My sole possessions were on my back.
Walking a couple of blocks to the ancient Saginaw Trail cum Woodward Avenue–the white man’s first paved-concrete road in the world–Detroit’s Finest lost no time picking me up. I could hardly blame them…
I wore a cut-off, coarse white shirt with a faded “P” on the back, white pants of the same material and a pair of well-worn Beatle boots with no zippers. No socks, no underwear, no ID. After 23-yrs on Earth and six years in the Old South, that just about summed me up. more…
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Disclosure: The author is a democratic, constitutional socialist and a Doctor of Psychology (PsyD). I conclude that the emerging corporatist state is a psychopathic pathology.
Some of my political and professional colleagues consider the liberal-conservative paradigm to be one of a left-right socio-political dichotomy. I do not, at least not completely. It is far more that of a developmental continuum. Its most mature stage is universalized social consciousness and responsibility.
The more one experiences during their formative years the pathology of authoritative, punitive and individualized self-entitlement, the less mature is their development and the more fixated they become in self-focus and infantile projection (how they perceive others and their environment).
Corporateers and their cadre are at root a partnership of those who are developmentally fixated on profiteering and sociopathologically-framed mental syndromes and disorders. more…
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Throughout American history there have been occasions when gov’t and society have labeled monopoly capitalism in violation of fair competition and free enterprise and busted them up.
Banking conning tower..
Congress’s first such law was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890. Senator John Sherman (R-OH) was the brother to famed Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. more…
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