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Good Kops vs. Bad Kops: The 1% Solution…
25
January

No one can say that I’ve not been blessed with a variety of acquaintances and circumstances throughout my life. Two of them are Michael and Robert Meeropol, the sons of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, murdered by the state as Soviet spies in 1953.

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg

The release of hundreds of thousands of gov’t papers since, document that, indeed, they were both ardent members of the CPUSA (allies to the US during WW-II). Julius (37) was an electrical engineer and Ethel (Greenglass, 35) was a union organizer. They lived in NYC.

They were both scapegoats of the anti-communist hysteria whipped up by J. Edgar Hoover and Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI). Somebody had to be publicly burned at the stake for the Soviet’s developing their own atomic bomb (1949). more…

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Social History: 99% & 1%…
23
January

“One class-conscious prisoner is worth 1,000 lawyers.”

Twenty-years in federal prison tends to give a person a certain je ne sais quoi into crime, law, and state control. Since extended tribal families were formed some 10,000+Y.A., associations of humans have come to general agreement that certain common laws are needed.

Anthony V. Mangione, ICE

Initially, I surmise that these social agreements tended to centralize around common issues of physical predation. Family-society came to generally view murder, assault and theft as such universal crimes. more…

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Courts, Corporatists & Other Criminals…
21
January

While the corporate media distracts the public with their trick-bag of dysfunctional Republican idiots, aka candidates, the US Supreme Court pulled off another three-card monte.

In a devilish compromise, the Court unanimously instructed a lower court in Texas to “take another look” at the Texas Legislator’s redistricting maps (favoring Republicans).

The Texas court had redrawn the Congressional voting maps in line with the Census count (as required by the Constitution).

That remapping included fair representation by the affected Hispanic communities. The USSC effectively killed that plan. more…

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NDAA & SOPA: Another Milestone on the Road to Corporate Fascism…
16
January

Hans Post, the grandfather of Australia’s peace movement, warns in a recent web message that it’s long past “time that we all really wake up before it’s too late.”

He’s specifically referring to Congress’s current foray into anti-democratic legislation, to wit: The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). more…

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Commentary: Political Consciousness…
14
January

When I was first asked for my opinion of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement last October, I responded that the most significant factor was their central issue of 99% vs. 1%, and that this was, objectively, an anti-capitalist call.

She replied that she didn’t think that the OWS movement was making such a lofty statement nor that such would development.

“We’ll see,” I said, but also thought, That’s the difference between subjective and objective analysis. more…

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9/11 & Conservative Freaks…
11
January

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”   Ben Franklin

On 9/11, as the rest of the world was learning of the Saudi-Wahhabist terror attack in NYC, I was taken from the federal prison factory at FCI Jesup, Georgia, and locked down incommunicado in the punitive isolation “hole” for the next 50 days.

Just business...

That was only one minor beginning of the power-security grab and the Patriot Act that was enacted by the Bush-Cheney criminal administration (and continues to this day). more…

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Social Consciousness…
09
January

People acculturate normally into our respective societies thru family, peers, schools and nation. We tend to accept the broad systemic beliefs and behaviors of what we’ve observed, been taught and told.

These beliefs and attitudes are borne thru early formative psycho-social development. Basic identification with certain morals, values and ideals serve to determine how we later relate to and define social, political and psychological events. Thus is life… more…

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Rick Santorum: Inquisition Man…
06
January

If an archetype did not exist for a grown man twisted from the roots of shame, guilt and conservative hypocrisy, we might have to invent him. However, such is not the case; Richard John “Rick the Rooster” Santorum, 53, already exists.

Mitt Romney is a corporate zealot seeking to fill his father’s underpants. Newt Gingrich is an old-timey corrupt politician. Rick Perry is a frustrated Texan gaucho. Ron Paul is a racist-nativist cum faux-populist, and Michelle Bachmann is her own caricature of a female (circa the 18th century-or-so).

Ol’ Rick is the genuine article: A stone cold Conquerer Worm…straight from the hell of the Vatican-Inquisitional archives, or so he chooses. more…

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2012: Diagnosis & Prescription for Revolution; A New Year’s Tale…
02
January

Perhaps there’s some truth to the saying that it takes one to know one…that bank robbers, thieves and fraudsters tend to sense their own.

Either some phenomenal synchronicity or sensory recognition process is going on in Wall Street and other financial centers, or the system itself is a criminal enterprise to begin with and attracts like-minded conspirators. My money’s on the latter. more…

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300th AmericanTribune.org Article…
30
December

AmericanTribune.org commenced publishing in May of 2010. This 300th article coincides with the end of 2011. As the Chinese curse goes, it’s been an interesting year…

The last regular military has left Iraq. The Weapons of Mass Destruction (all originally gifted from the US) were never found. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 (there was no Al Qaeda in Iraq before we got there). The War for Oil was created long before 9/11, a more ubiquitous excuse than the Reichstag Fire. more…

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