vice | In the second half of the 20th century, New York City saw a boom in
organized crime, with New York and New Jersey at the epicenter of mob
rule in the US. Meanwhile, the gay scene had exploded.
The
Mafia—which had a stranglehold on nightlife since the end of
Prohibition—spotted a gap in the market. There was a whole new audience
who wanted to go to a bar or nightclub to experience the then luxury of
being among other gay people. In the aftermath of Prohibition, a new
underground scene developed, and naturally the Mafia wanted in on the
action. What followed was years of pimping, financial exploitation, the
NYPD completely ignoring the LGBT community's concerns, and gossipy FBI
files speculating about certain mobsters' sexualities.
Phillip Crawford Jr., author of the book The Mafia and the Gays,
argues that the Mafia were much more than proprietors of illegal
nightspots; he says that they are in fact an intrinsic part of the LGBT
movement, sparking the Stonewall riots and enabling the gay community to
thrive. VICE called him up to talk about all that.
VICE: Hi, Phillip. When did the link between the gay community and the Mafia begin? Phillip Crawford Jr: The
Mafia was behind many speakeasies in the big cities, such as Chicago
and New York, during Prohibition. After Prohibition was repealed, state
agencies regulated bars with vague standards against disorderly premises
and moral indecency, which were interpreted to prohibit serving gays.
Accordingly, the Mafia took its experience with speakeasies and used it
to operate gay bars, which involved paying off the police departments
and liquor authorities charged with enforcing these discriminatory laws.
It seems like an unusual fusion... Well, the Mafia
didn't much care about enforcing societal mores or respecting government
rules. Ernest Sgroi Sr, one of the principal fronts for gay bars
controlled by mob boss Vito Genovese in Greenwich Village, obtained his
first liquor license right after the repeal of Prohibition. He was
involved with some of the most popular gay bars during the post-war
years, including the Bon Soir and the Lion, which started off as
nightclubs with live entertainment attracting both straight and gay
patrons but ultimately became predominantly gay bars. The Lion was where
Barbra Streisand made her first public singing performance in 1960.
So do you think the Mafia exploited the gay community purely for their own financial ends? The
Mafia controlled most gay bars due to their illegal status, and
extracted a monetary premium from the gay community. This recognized
both the legal risk the Mob was taking and the near-monopoly status it
enjoyed. After all, where else were gay folks going to meet? There were
often high cover charges and minimum drink requirements. Moreover, gay
men were at risk of blackmail from their Mob overlords. The Mob's
exploitation of the gay community was among the reasons for the 1969
protests outside the Stonewall Inn. Indeed, after the Stonewall
protests, once of the principal goals of the activist groups such as Gay
Activists Alliance and Gay Liberation Front was to get organized crime
out of the gay bars.
HuffPo | In
the ’30s and ’40s lesbians formed an unusual alliance when they started
working for and with the mafia in New York City’s Greenwich Village.
Back then, dressing in a suit was illegal for women — It could mean the
difference between life and death. Butch women were taking real fashion risks and the mafia offered lesbians much-needed protection.
Although
it might sound surprising to hear about out lesbians working with and
for the mob, there was a time in New York City when all the gay clubs
were mafia-run. —Vice
There’s
always been an attempt to erase women from his-story, but make no
mistake, the suffragettes were the first to plant their flag in the
Village. The Village was run by lesbians. Working with the mob gave them
clout and there was a good amount of money to be made.
Most
of the bars in the Village were lesbian...The Village belonged to the
gay girls, because the suffragettes had been there first, and they were
all queer as pink plates. —Vice
While
the mafia used their power to pay off the cops, lesbians in the Village
found their own brand of power. Many performed as drag kings, dressed
to the nines in suits and ties. They put together acts that included a
variety of talents. They worked the biggest drag shows in town, and were
some of America’s first drag superstars. Drag was appealing — it meant
cash and freedom. Coming out of the Depression, lesbians in Greenwich
Village were living it up, buying cars and spending like there was no
tomorrow.
“It
was mafia bosses who founded hot spots, from the famed Stonewall Inn to
the lesbian haunt the Howdy Club to the 181 Club.” —“New York Post”
Off
stage, women who broke the dress code oozed with style and sex appeal.
Their hair, sleek and daring. Their style choices, undeniably seductive.
Women never needed men to tell us what was sexy— We already knew.
We are waking up as no society that we've ever been taught about, has had to do. No society that we've ever been taught about has been where we are today. Our current situation is not a pretty thing. We know about some of the changes, events, and developments that we're allowed to know about. These are the underlying causes for societal dysfunction that are blamed for our current predicament, and even these permitted causes of societal dysfunction cannot be addressed in any agreeable way. Too many needy people appeared as if out of nowhere too fast. All our budgets are strained with expenditures far outpacing revenues. The welfare of those who brought about this predicament will not be sacrificed. It will never be sacrificed for those already stigmatized as society's weakest links, no matter who is really to blame for their condition.
The proprietors cannot proceed into the world of tomorrow dragging a heavy burden of the unproductive and unprofitable forward with them. They cannot compete with other elite proprietor's in the global 1% and maintain their influence within that global elite if they spend their last borrowed dime on the unproductive and unprofitable. What our elites are faced with today is a perfect storm of aging boomers, unsustainable national debt and continued borrowing, legislative dysfunction, automation, continued job-shedding with 95 million already on the sidelines, apathy, all of which lead to the type of events which unfolded last weekend in Charlottesville. You're kidding yourself if you think this situation is going to get any better. From here forward, it can only get worse.
Only ignorant peasants wonder why the war on drugs has never been won, why the situation worsens by the day, and why those governance pretend at helplessness to do anything about it. That is because the entire human livestock management scheme is designed. Drugs are just one aspect of the human livestock management scheme. The unproductive and unprofitable have overstayed their welcome. 99% of this herd is subject to accelerated cull. The challenge, to the extent there is one, is putting down these two-legged cattle without being too obviously to blame for the cull. This is the way the corporate neofeudal system works. Top people, thought-leaders are rewarded and accorded status for their cleverness at squeezing out profits under by any means necessary but under cover of law - and doing so in a manner designed to shield them and the proprietors they represent from any liability for any externalities that may be involved in yielding that profit.
If the bottom can't support the top...the structure collapses.
Oh I get it you all think you support those below...
You think the top or roof supports the foundation of the structure...well I guess in your mind where LAW that governs the Universe does not apply you could imagine such.
The bottom produces everything and the top monetizes it...They then mark up everything and sell it back to the bottom to get their money back.
The top owns the money system...it and all the money belongs to them...it's their money that monetizes the wholesale production operation...not yours...all the money in circulation does not belong to any of you...You just think it does.
The difference between the wholesale cost and the retail price is the yield the top lives off of...well then how does the bottom make up the difference?
By supplying the top with more than the top gives...forever...Until the bottom can't supply the top with the yield they demand.
Somebody has been glorifying the use of drugs, especially alcohol, for quite some time now. Think, "most interesting man in the world", when was the last time you saw a commercial that showcased the actual results of alcohol indulgence? Colleges are ranked by how hard they "party". Endless televised coverage of the young and beautiful doing themselves in all the while leaving viewers with the impression they are missing out on something wonderful. The drug and degeneracy problem could not have grown to this extent without the complicity of those in power or connected, whether locally or nationally, running things behind the scenes. Most do it for the profit while others for more sinister reasons. Like so many cattle, Americans don't really have to be forced any more to go to their own slaughter. The pied-piper of our celebrity addiction has made it so that Americans seemingly can't get enough.
Self-pity, fringe sexual acts, drugs and alcohol, excessive eating, conspicuous consumption, these humans have become so lacking in meaning and purpose that they destroy themselves (and everything around them) in pursuit of fashionable degeneracy. All this degeneracy has turned us against and blinded us to the fundamental necessity of WORK. WORK is the only thing that rewards and fulfills our being. Not the money we receive from the fruits of our work, not the luxury this money may afford, but the sense of accomplishment and mastery that one discovers within himself. In comparison with this fundamental being-duty, everything else is merely conversation....,
Degeneracy is a deceiver. It lies, telling you how smart, how deserving, how rewarding, how fulfilling it is. Even those who try to WORK can be turned from the truth within, misdirected toward getting money instead of life. These misdirected souls seek money and spend money on the empty things and degeneracy they've been conditioned to believe that others value. This is what hypnotic marketing does to our "monkey-see monkey-do" species ethology. Marketing doesn't tell you humans what you want or need, rather, it convinces you to want what everyone else has been or is being convinced to want. Marketing has built this false consensus, making you believe what the proprietors want you to believe and do what is profitable for them to have you do. Foolish humans, addicted to an unsatisfiable set of urges that cannot be explained by simple biological necessity.
This is our world now, and we're not at the beginning of this process, we are in fact fast approaching its culmination. The contagion of degeneracy and aversion to WORK has become apocalyptic.
statnews | The warning signs of what would become a deadly opioid epidemic
emerged in early 2001. That’s when officials of the state employee
health plan in West Virginia noticed a surge in deaths attributed to
oxycodone, the active ingredient in the painkiller OxyContin.
They quickly decided to do something about it: OxyContin
prescriptions would require prior authorization. It was a way to ensure
that only people who genuinely needed the painkiller could get it and
that people abusing opioids could not.
But an investigation by STAT has found that Purdue Pharma, the
manufacturer of OxyContin, thwarted the state’s plan by paying a
middleman, known as a pharmacy benefits manager, to prevent insurers
from limiting prescriptions of the drug.
The financial quid pro quo between the painkiller maker and the
pharmacy benefits manager, Merck Medco, came to light in West Virginia
court records unsealed by a state judge at the request of STAT, and in
interviews with people familiar with the arrangement.
“We were screaming at the wall,” said Tom Susman, who headed the
state’s public employee insurance agency in the early 2000s and led the
push to limit OxyContin prescribing in West Virginia.
“We saw it coming,” he said of the opioid epidemic,
which today causes 28,000 overdose deaths a year in the United States.
“Now to see the aftermath is the most frustrating thing I have ever
seen.”
Overprescribing of OxyContin and other opioid painkillers is blamed for helping to plant the seeds for the current opioid crisis.
West Virginia has been hit harder than any other state: It suffers the
highest per capita drug overdose death rate in the country — more than
double the national average. It also has one of the highest rates of
painkiller prescribing.
stockboardasset | Earlier this month, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions unveiled a plan to go after doctors and pharmacies suspected of healthcare fraud by oversubscribing opioids. America’s opioid epidemic killed 33,000 people in 2015 making it the worst drug crisis in our history. Last week, President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a national emergency allowing the executive branch to direct funds towards treatment facilities and supplying police officers with naloxone.
As a socio-economist on the front lines of the opioid crisis in
Baltimore, Maryland. I am about to take you through an opioid experience
like you’ve never seen before. We’re going to travel into the inner
city of Baltimore and interview current and former addicts of opioids
and heroin. Some of these individuals used heroin 15-minutes before the
cameras started rolling.
These individuals have never been given the chance to tell their
story until now. Baltimore’s mainstream news is not allowed to share
this because it breaks the narrative that everything is awesome. It
turns out that Baltimore could have the largest methadone clinic in the
United States called Turning Point
Clinic. Each of the interviewees are current and past patients of the
clinic and speak very negatively about it. A similar description of
Baltimore is heard from each of the interviewees of a hellacious city
with decades of deindustrialization, drug abuse, and violent crime.
bitterqueen |Nancy Pelosi's father Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. allegedly was a "constant
companion" of notorious mobster Benjamin "Benny Trotta" Magliano and
other underworld figures during his political years in Baltimore, MD.
D'Alesandro was a Congressman for five terms from 1938 to 1947, and
Baltimore mayor for three terms from 1947 to 1959. Magliano was
identified by the FBI as one of Baltimore's "top hoodlums," and he
widely was acknowledged as the representative for New York's Frankie
Carbo who made his bones with Murder, Inc. and later became a made guy
in the Lucchese family. The allegations are included in D'Alesandro's
recently-released FBI files which Friends of Ours has obtained pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.
In 1947 the FBI investigated Magliano for securing a draft exemption
from Selective Service for himself and prize fighters he controlled by
falsely representing they had essential employment at American Ship
Cleaning Company which was operated by John Cataneo. In fact,
Magliano and his boxers had no such employment, and they were convicted
with Cataneo in federal court for their unpatriotic draft-dodging scam.
Peter Galiano, one of the convicted boxers, told the FBI in January
1947 that "Thomas D'Alesandro was a constant companion of John Cataneo;
Benjamin Magliano . . . and [redacted]":
It was reported that these individuals
had worked hard for Thomas D'Alesandro's reelection to Congress and on
his campaign at that time to become Mayor of Baltimore. It was stated
that John Cataneo and Magliano during the time of this campaign were
under Federal indictments for violation of the Selective Service Act and
for fraud against the Government and were subsequently convicted in
Federal court. Cataneo allegedly admitted giving large sums of money
toward the Democratic campaign and stated that he would receive the
sanitation contracts for Baltimore if Mr. D'Alesandro was elected mayor.
At that time the FBI never investigated D'Alesandro concerning this
or numerous other allegations involving hoodlum associations and public
corruption. Of course, while in Congress D'Alesandro sat on the
appropriations committee and was a friend of Director J. Edgar Hoover.
For example, an FBI memo dated March 27, 1946 from E. G. Fitch to D. M.
Ladd provides:
Supervisor Orrin H. Bartlett advised me
that while talking to Congressman Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr. (D., Md.) on
March 26, 1946, the Congressman advised Agent Bartlett he was running
for Congress again in the fall 1946 election and that in 1947 he was
running for the office of Mayor of Baltimore. Congressman D'Alesandro
advised Agent Bartlett that since he had been on the Appropriations
Committee, he has been back of the Director and the Bureau one hundred
percent, and further, that he was vitally interested in and completely
satisfied with the results of the Bureau's work.
Hoover sent warm congratulations to D'Alesandro upon his November
1946 re-election to the House and then his May 1947 election as
Baltimore Mayor, and after leaving Congress for City Hall D'Alesandro
wrote Hoover by letter dated May 14, 1947:
Thank you very much for message
congratulating me on my election as Mayor of the City of Baltimore. I
was most pleased to receive your good wishes and assure you that I will
do my utmost to give the people of Baltimore an efficient and
outstanding administration. I, too, will miss you and many other
friends in Washington but I am grateful for the proximity of our two
cities which will afford the opportunity for frequent visits when and if
time permits. Whenever you are in Baltimore, please make it a point to
visit me at City Hall.
Meanwhile, the allegations against D'Alesandro continued to pile up.
Finally, in January 1961 President John F. Kennedy requested the G-men
to address "allegations of D'Alesando's involvement with Baltimore
hoodlums; with favoritism in awarding city contracts; [and] protection
for political contributors and the prosecution of local cases."
President Kennedy wanted to appoint D'Alesandro to the United States
Renegotiation Board which was a government watchdog against profit
gouging by defense contractors. A February 6, 1961 memo from Hoover to
the Baltimore and Washington Field Offices cautiously advises: "The
White House has requested that we proceed with a special inquiry
investigation but that if substantial derogatory information were
developed, we should report this and discontinue any further inquiries
because substantiation of any of the allegations would eliminate
D'Alesandro."
theatlantic | The rally in Charlottesville
illustrated that the umbrella of the alt-right is an effective means to
mobilize a highly visible mix of old-school white supremacists and
neo-Nazis. Offline, at least, this isn’t the new white nationalism; it’s the old white nationalism as the primary beneficiary of the activity generated by a looser collection of people online.
Third,
the composition of the crowd in Charlottesville shows that there are
more potential fracture lines in the alt-right than the optics of white
supremacy. Since the 1970s, white nationalism in the United States has
been a sectarian affair. White nationalists all generally agree white
people should be in charge, but they have many different competing
beliefs about why that is the case, and how white rule should be
implemented. These differences are not trivial, and for decades they
have prevented a broadly concerted campaign of action by white
nationalists in America. Charlottesville was an example of how the
alt-right umbrella community can muster numbers that Odinists or the KKK
alone cannot.
The events scheduled for this coming Saturday—a “free speech” rally in Boston and marches scheduled in nine cities to protest Google’s firing of an employee who wrote a screed against diversity—will
help clarify where all the chaotic elements that comprise the alt-right
are headed in the near-term future. (The anti-Google protests are
slated for Atlanta, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Seattle, New York,
Washington, Austin, Boston, and Mountain View, California. On Sunday,
organizers released a statement condemning violence and insisting that they are “in no way associated with any group who organized” in Charlottesville.)
Prior
to Fields’s attack, Charlottesville was on track to be a clear victory
for the alt-right. While attendance of 500 people is a pittance compared
to most mainstream political events, it represents a marked upswing
from 2016. Simply turning out that many people in one place was an
unqualified win.
The fact that few participants sought to conceal
their identities was a bold statement about the mainstreaming of white
nationalism, which did not go unnoticed during an ominous torch-wielding event
the night before the formal rally. Even after the “Unite the Right”
rally itself was shut down by authorities as an unlawful assembly in the
face of escalating violence, the event was seen as a show of strength.
But the terrorist attack by Fields, who attended the rally alongside a neo-Nazi group known as Vanguard America,
was a game-changer. Videos posted online depicted his car accelerating
down a street to target a group of pedestrians with devastating effect.
The horrifying attack, recorded in graphic detail, sparked a massive national outpouring of outrage and condemnation. When “Unite the Right” organizer Jason Kessler attempted to hold a press conference on Sunday in Charlottesville, he was chased away by a crowd of people shouting “murderer” and “shame.”
The
question now is how the alt-right will process the backlash, and an
early indicator will be seen in Saturday’s marches and rallies.
unz |This
past Saturday night, August 12, the media was filled to overflowing
with nothing but lurid and hysterical accounts of the “violence” and the
“massacre” by so-called “white nationalists” (alternately identified as
“white supremacists” or “white racists”) inflicted on poor, innocent
“counter demonstrators” in Charlottesville who were “protesting hate and
bigotry.” That’s the narrative that showed up, including wall-to-wall
coverage on Fox, overpowering everything else, and spewed forth as if
handed down from Mount Olympus by assorted “wise” Republican senators,
including most notably Marco Rubio, Orrin Hatch, and John McCain, whose
biggest complaint was that Donald Trump somehow did not specify that the violence was exclusively caused by something that is termed the “Alt-right.”
Nary
a word about the ultimate and real responsibility of the American Left
for a continuing history of violence, nary a word about the
responsibility of the so-called “resist Trump” organizations and their
actions, nary a word about the uncontrolled rampaging of the Black Lives
Matter movement (e.g., Ferguson, Baltimore, etc.), nary a word about
the stepped up and planned confrontations by the “antifa” (self-titled
“antifascists”) militants. That is, not one word about the history of
virulent street action, fire bombing, trashing of private property, and,
yes, attempts to kill anyone (e.g., Representative Steve
Scalise) to the perceived right of, say, John McCain, anyone who might
in any way say a good word about Donald Trump, or defend older American
traditions and beliefs.
Continually, the networks portray what happened Saturday as simply the manifestation of extremism and bigotry from the Right.
And practically the only voice that got even remotely close to a
rational perspective came from, quite ironically, a black professor,
Carol Swain at Vanderbilt University, who distinguished between the very
legitimate desires, aspirations and fears of America’s under-attack
white majority and the misapprehension that somehow those desires equalinevitably
“white racism” or “white supremacy.” As Swain indicated, what has
happened during the past few decades is a palpable marginalization of
millions of hard working Americans, mostly white and mostly Christian,
who have been sidelined and left behind by the advancing progressivist
revolution (these last words are mine). They are not naturally “racists”
or even “white supremacists,” but rather they seek to guarantee their own survival, and the survival of their families, their communities, and
their culture. They have seen the standards, beliefs, traditions,
morality and customs that they inherited and have cherished—they have
seen them attacked, ridiculed, and, in many cases, banned, even
criminalized.
The
so-called “Alt-right” march and their demonstration in Charlottesville,
then, must be seen as something of a predictable boiling over of that
legitimate and simmering sentiment. Protesting the attempt to take down
the historic Robert E. Lee statue was not, in this sense, the underlying
reason for the Alt-right protest. Rather, it served as a much broader,
if much angrier and extreme, reminder of what is and has been occurring
in our society, a symbol of the continuing destruction of this nation
and its history by those who zealously possess and attempt to impose a
world view, a template, which is the antithesis of those beliefs and
that faith that millions of us have inherited and which we hold dear and
believe.
The
attacks by nearly the entirety of the media—including notably Fox—on
the “Alt-right” demonstrators as “white racists” and “white
supremacists,” then, is not only misguided scattershot, but it partakes
in the dominant and ideologically leftist Deep State establishment
narrative which posits as absolute truth that “hate,” “bigotry,”
“racism,” ad nauseum, onlycome from what
they identity as the “far” or “extreme” right, or more recently,
“Alt-right.” And those terms are all-inclusive for anyone who dissents
even in the slightest from the ongoing progressivist Revolution.
Thus, when the president condemned violence from “both sides,”
it was as if Mount Vesuvius had erupted and had poured down its ash and
lava all over Pompei! The Mainstream Media went literally berserk in
outrage and demanded that he specify by name the “right” and
“rightist violence.” And in jumped with both feet the obsequiously
sickening Marco Rubio and Karl Rove, obedient to the standard Deep State
mindset, urging the president to condemn “white nationalism” and “white
supremacy.”
And
so it went throughout that afternoon and evening…until I finally
couldn’t take it any longer, and switched over to watch John Wayne in
John Ford’s 1950 film masterpiece, “Rio Grande.” (It is always a
gracious reward at the end to hear the Yankee band strike up “Dixie” as
the Union troops pass in review!)
Certainly, the Alt-right demonstrators in Charlottesville included some
extreme elements. Certainly, some would advocate a form of “supremacy,”
or rather a return to a time when white people had more authority in
this nation.
ibtimes | In 2012, the EU parliament voiced concern about "rising nationalistic
sentiment in Ukraine, expressed in support of the Svoboda party".
"[Parliament]
recalls that racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic views go against the
EU's fundamental values and principles and therefore appeals to
pro-democratic parties in the Verkhovna Rada [Ukraine's legislature] not
to associate with, endorse, or form coalitions with this party."
In
2005 Tyahnybok signed an open letter to then Ukrainain president Viktor
Yushchenko urging him to ban all Jewish organisations, including the
Anti-Defamation League, which he claimed carried out "criminal
activities [of] organised Jewry", ultimately aimed at the genocide of
the Ukrainian people.
In December, US Republican senator John McCain flew to Kiev to meet
the three leaders of the opposition at a rally against then president
Victor Yanukovich. McCain sparked criticism when he shook hands with
Tyahnybok.
In a leaked phone conversation
with the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, US secretary of
state Victoria Nuland revealed her wish for Tyahnybok to remain "on the
outside" but to consult opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk "four times a
week".
Fifteen thousand Svoboda members held a torchlit ceremony
in the city of Lviv in January to honour Stepan Bandera, a Nazi
collaborator who led forces to ethnically cleanse western Ukraine of
Poles in 1943 and 1944. Over 90,000 Poles and many Jews were killed.
"Lviv
has become the epicentre of neo-fascist activity in Ukraine, with
elected Svoboda officials waging a campaign to rename its airport after
Bandera and successfully changing the name of Peace Street to the name
of the Nachtigall Battalion, an OUN-B wing that participated directly in
the Holocaust," AlterNet explained.
In Washington, the OUN-B reconstituted under the banner of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) .
"By
the mid-1980s, the Reagan administration was honeycombed with UCCA
members. Reagan personally welcomed Stetsko, the Banderist leader who
oversaw the massacre of 7,000 Jews in Lviv, in the White House in 1983.
"'Your struggle is our struggle,' Reagan told the former Nazi collaborator. 'Your dream is our dream'," AterNet claimed.
In 2010, Viktor Yushchenko who was president of Ukraine at the time, awarded Bandera the title National Hero of Ukraine.
"When
the European parliament condemned Yushchenko's proclamation as an
affront to European values, the UCCA-affiliated Ukrainian World Congress
reacted with outrage, accusing the EU of another attempt to rewrite Ukrainian history during WWII," AlterNet continued.
"On its website, the UCCA dismissed historical accounts of Bandera's collaboration with the Nazis as Soviet propaganda."
slate | Over the course of the day, two similar threads held the second
highest spot in that forum. One argued that “Unite the Right” organizer
Jason Kessler was possibly a secret pro-Obama operative and another said that far-right rallies across the country were part of an “organized smear campaign.”
Alt-right media personality Mike Cernovich, meanwhile, claimed that
the violence was being initiated by left-wing groups in order to provoke
a civil war. Another prominent alt-right social media voice, Jack
Posobiec, said it was part of a “deep state [plot] to remove Trump
allies in the WH and accelerate their coup.”
Julian Assange compared the torch-lit rally
in Charlottesville to ones that took place in Ukraine in 2014, which he
and alt-right voices also claim were Soros-funded affairs meant to
foment the breakdown of civil society.
Finally, former Breitbart writer Patrick Howley wrote that
by pressuring the president to denounce the racist attack, “Trump’s
enemies are clearly hoping to separate Trump from any and all militia
groups that could take part in potential acts of civil disobedience if
Trump gets impeached and the nation heads into a Civil War-type
scenario.”
His old boss, Steve Bannon, is now one of the most senior officials in Donald Trump's government.
He only changed his views in November 2016 (top kek), and established
his white supremacist group, "Unity & Security For America" in
January 2017.
Kessler organized this rally, in a similar vein to prior free speech
rallies to get as many Trump supporters there as possible, and went on
to invite several neo-Nazi and KKK groups to smear everyone attending.
This is right up the alley of Scott Foval and Bob Creamer, Democratic
operatives who organized "bird-dogging" at Trump rallies last year to
smear regular Trump supporters as racist and violent.
Jason Kessler should be arrested.
Spez: He also has several prior charges including assault (as
recently as this year), obstruction of justice and failure to appear.
As a result of this tweet, I'm removing the section about CNN for now
as it has come to my attention that it may be a different Jason
Kessler. If someone can confirm it was the Kessler in question I will
put back the info about CNN.
Spez3: Also removing the part where a "Jason Kessler" received money
for assisting a Democrat in his Senate run. Same reason as Spez2.
Spez4: u/William-WallaceGhost
has posted a video from Lee Stranahan breaking down several instances
of this rally that are identical to the lead-up to the Ukrainian coup of
2013, including the Mosquito Torch March, the chants of "Blood and
Soil", and the demonization of Ukrainian government supporters,
orchestrated by Soros, McCain and Graham. Link
Spez5: This post is getting brigaded. Look out for posts from users spamming conspiracy theories defending Challenger Nazi.
Spez6: Apparently ZeroHedge is running this story. Link
Spez7: From u/pdotuts: Has Kessler been mentioned in any of the leaked emails?
UPDATE: So, it looks like my post has hit a fever pitch. Reported by
DailyCaller, ZeroHedge, Business Insider and InfoWars. That alone means
millions of people have seen this crucial information.
npr | If, underneath that fundamental search is something that's broken — I
call them potholes — is there abuse or trauma or mental illness or
addiction? In my case, many years ago, it was abandonment. I felt
abandoned, and that led me to this community. But what happens is
because there are so many marginalized young people, so many
disenfranchised young people today with not a lot to believe in, with
not a lot of hope, they tend to search for very simple black and white
answers.
Because of the Internet, we now have this propaganda
machine that is flooding the Internet with conspiracy theory propaganda
from the far right — disinformation — and when a young person who feels
disenchanted, or disaffected, goes online where most of them live,
they're able to find that identity online.
They're able to find that community, and they're able to find that
purpose that's being fed to them by savvy recruiters who understand how
to target vulnerable young people. And they go for this solution
because, frankly, it promises paradise. And it requires very little work
except for dedicating your life to that purpose.
But I can say
that they're all being fooled, because the people at the very top have
an agenda. And it's a broken ideology that can never work, that in fact,
is destroying people's lives more than the promise that they were given
of helping the world or saving the white race.
On Charlottesville as a turning point for this country politically and philosophically
I
believe that the world has now seen what we have been sweeping under
the rug for many many years — thinking we were in a post-racial society.
... I think that this catalyst shows the world 1. That it's a problem, a
real problem that exists in our country; 2: that white extremism should
be classified as terrorism, and now that we attached the terrorism word
to it, it will get more resources. It will be at the top of people's
minds.
What people need to understand is that since Sept. 11, more Americans
have been killed on U.S. soil by white supremacists than by any other
foreign or domestic group combined by a factor of two. Yet we don't
really talk about that, nor do we even call these instances of the
shooting at Charleston, S.C., or what happened at Oak Creek, Wis., at
the Sikh temple or even what happened in Charlottesville this weekend —
as terrorism.
realitycallshow |CK: My big question is this: Why does the alt-right
movement appear to be so overwhelmingly male? Is it just that less women
come out to highly-visible protests like Charlottesville, or are there
just far fewer women involved in the movement than men?
TM: Judging by the analytics data of my and other Alt
Right personalities’ social media accounts, I estimate the Alt Right is
about 15% female.
White males are fed up of being systematically
disenfranchised and discriminated against through affirmative action in
all of its many manifestations. But maybe more importantly, the Alt
Right is overtly patriarchal.
We expect men to take leadership positions and to put
themselves on the front lines. We do not expect, or want this of women
– not because we hate women, but because we don’t view it as their job.
The Alt Right doesn’t expect women to put themselves in dangerous
situations, and instead seeks to protect them.
CK: Do you think the media tries to minimize the
presence of women at alt-right gatherings like this? (almost all the big
photos circulated from Charlottesville featured men)
TM: The media tries to minimize all aspects of the Alt
Right that make it look remotely reasonable. We see this when they show
closeups of the few odd guys out of thousands who take it upon
themselves to do Nazi salutes or wear KKK outfits.
Most of us in the Alt Right view Nazi and KKK symbolism
either with distaste, or we use it ironically to trigger hysteria in the
uninitiated (for entertainment purposes).
The vast majority of people in the Alt Right don’t care
about Nazis, or about the KKK. We are focused on the issues that whites
face today.
CK: If you agree that there are far fewer women
involved, what stops them from affiliating with the alt-right?
Ideological reasons, or something else?
TM: What motivates the Alt Right is the love of our people
and the desire to protect them from being disenfranchised politically.
Men are naturally more likely to notice trends like this and to feel it
is their duty to take action to protect their people. So we put this
down to biological male/female roles.
We don’t believe that male/female roles are conditioned by
society to any great extent, but that they are biologically engrained
in us, so we would not consider this ideological but simply a
manifestation of the natural way of things.
It’s not the role of women to protect the borders, the
nation, or the family. So we do not expect this of women, nor do we find
it strange that they are less represented in something that we view as
an innately male occupation: guarding territory.
“But when the tear gas started to fly, thrown by protesters, the police
themselves began to evacuate then. I asked the guy who was in charge,
“Where you going?” He said, “We’re leaving. It’s too dangerous.” They had a chance to nip this thing in the bud and they chose not to.“
medium | Political IQ test: What does it mean when CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and the
President’s Twitter account all agree that a foreign state poses a
suddenly increased threat to America?
A) If they all agree it must be true! B) Well I dislike some of those outlets, but I trust one of them. C) The US intelligence community would never lie to us. D) Hmm… this sounds an awful lot like the leadup to Iraq?
If you said anything but D, you are of course a fucking moron.
The United States power establishment has an extensive history of using
lies, false flags and propaganda to manipulate its hundreds of millions
of citizens into supporting needless military interventionism. From the
Gulf of Tonkin incident to the false Nayirah testimony to the amazing network of lies spun about Saddam Hussein to the “humanitarian” intervention in Libya to the unconscionable Bana Alabed psy-op
in Syria, there is no depth to which the US war machine will not stoop
in deceiving the public about the need to unload the military-industrial
complex’s expensive inventory onto some third world country overseas,
no limit to the evils that America’s unelected power establishment will
commit in order to secure geopolitical dominance, and no end to the mass
media propaganda machine’s willingness to report war propaganda as
objective fact.
It
is quite literally impossible to be too paranoid about these people. If
you had an acquaintance who was a known compulsive liar with an
extensive history of duping people into fighting one another for his own
sociopathic amusement, how would you react if he handed you a gun and
told you that your neighbor is getting ready to attack you?
The US government lies about war, and Phil Donahue was fired from his top-ranked show for expressing skepticism about the Iraq invasion.
This fact should overlay every single segment of news media you consume
which has anything to do with a potential military rival of the United
States and its allies/client states. Like Dr. Gregory House’s perpetual
mantra “people lie”, awareness of the US war machine’s love of deceit
and manipulation is absolutely essential in forming a clear worldview.
reuters | Venezuela’s unraveling socialist government is
increasingly turning to ally Russia for the cash and credit it needs to
survive – and offering prized state-owned oil assets in return, sources
familiar with the negotiations told Reuters.
As
Caracas struggles to contain an economic meltdown and violent street
protests, Moscow is using its position as Venezuela’s lender of last
resort to gain more control over the OPEC nation’s crude reserves, the
largest in the world.
Venezuela's state-owned
oil firm, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), has been secretly negotiating
since at least early this year with Russia's biggest state-owned oil
company, Rosneft (ROSN.MM)
- offering ownership interests in up to nine of Venezuela's most
productive petroleum projects, according to a top Venezuelan government
official and two industry sources familiar with the talks.
Moscow
has substantial leverage in the negotiations: Cash from Russia and
Rosneft has been crucial in helping the financially strapped government
of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro avoid a sovereign debt default or
a political coup.
Rosneft delivered
Venezuela’s state-owned firm more than $1 billion in April alone in
exchange for a promise of oil shipments later. On at least two
occasions, the Venezuelan government has used Russian cash to avoid
imminent defaults on payments to bondholders, a high-level PDVSA
official told Reuters.
Rosneft has also
positioned itself as a middleman in sales of Venezuelan oil to customers
worldwide. Much of it ends up at refineries in the United States –
despite U.S. sanctions against Russia – because it is sold through
intermediaries such as oil trading firms, according to internal PDVSA
trade reports seen by Reuters and a source at the firm.
PDVSA and the government of Venezuela did not respond to requests for comment.
The
Russian government declined to comment and referred questions to the
foreign ministry and the ministries of finance and defense, which did
not respond to questions from Reuters. Rosneft declined to comment.
October
5 has become the Day of No Prostitution Campaign in Davao City. In
2005, the Philippine Information Agency reported documented cases of
children as young as 10 years old forced into prostitution in Davao.
Davao provinces, along with the Caraga region, have become the favorites
of child traffickers posing as tourists.[53]
An undated article reported that, based on an October 1997 source,
Davao is one of the top five areas for child prostitution and sex
tourism.[54]
In 1998, the Tambayan Center for Abused Street Girls reported more than
1,000 teenage girls had turned to prostitution in Davao City, charging
as little as 50 cents.[55]
It works like this: Once a month, the debit-card accounts of those
receiving what we still call food stamps are credited with a few hundred
dollars — about $500 for a family of four, on average — which are
immediately converted into a unit of exchange, in this case cases of
soda. On the day when accounts are credited, local establishments
accepting EBT cards — and all across the Big White Ghetto, “We Accept
Food Stamps” is the new E pluribus unum – are swamped with locals using
their public benefits to buy cases and cases — reports put the number at
30 to 40 cases for some buyers — of soda. Those cases of soda then
either go on to another retailer, who buys them at 50 cents on the
dollar, in effect laundering those $500 in monthly benefits into $250 in
cash — a considerably worse rate than your typical organized-crime
money launderer offers — or else they go into the local black-market
economy, where they can be used as currency in such ventures as the
dealing of unauthorized prescription painkillers — by “pillbillies,” as
they are known at the sympathetic establishments in Florida that do so
much business with Kentucky and West Virginia that the relevant
interstate bus service is nicknamed the “OxyContin Express.” A woman who
is intimately familiar with the local drug economy suggests that the
exchange rate between sexual favors and cases of pop — some dealers will
accept either — is about 1:1, meaning that the value of a woman in the
local prescription-drug economy is about $12.99 at Walmart prices.
Last year, 18 big-city mayors, Mike Bloomberg and Rahm Emanuel among
them, sent the federal government a letter asking that soda be removed
from the list of items eligible to be used for EBT purchases. Mayor
Bloomberg delivered his standard sermon about obesity, nutrition, and
the multiplex horrors of sugary drinks. But none of those mayors gets
what’s really going on with sugar water and food stamps. Take soda off
the list and there will be another fungible commodity to take its place.
It’s possible that a great many cans of soda used as currency go a long
time without ever being cracked — in a town this small, those selling
soda to EBT users and those buying it back at half price are bound to be
some of the same people, the soda merely changing hands ceremonially to
mark the real exchange of value, pillbilly wampum.
WaPo | A further, related point needs to be made: Duterte has been careful
to lay out a case to the public and his subordinates for a “just war” through the use of dossiers
containing lists of officials and others he insists are drug lords,
which he waves around during speeches. Some of these are explicitly
identified; others are mentioned obliquely, suggesting that he is giving
them a chance to mend their ways. And always, he warns: If you do not
surrender or stop, do not be surprised by what happens to you.
This method provides an alibi
not only for himself but also for all officialdom. Here is political
will in spades: assuming responsibility, reiterating the justness of his
war, assuring everyone implicated that the president has their backs.
Whether shocked or awed by the outcome, the country is assured of one
thing: their collective innocence in what has transpired. And so the
country can applaud the liquidations with a clear conscience.
The
day after Tillerson left, having dispensed with the looming expectation
of foreign criticism, Duterte was triumphant and uncompromising.
Addressing the police during their anniversary celebrations, he said:
“Find me a law … that says it is illegal to say those words, ‘I will
kill you if you destroy my country and the youth of my land.’ “
In targeting Rappler, he cited Article 16, Section 11 of
the Constitution. "The ownership and management of mass media shall be
limited to citizens of the Philippines, or to corporations, cooperatives
or associations, wholly-owned and managed by such citizens,"reads the
charter.
Rappler has debunked this claim on foreign ownership, which was first circulated by Duterte's online defenders. (READ: Debunking lies about Rappler)
Rappler is 100% Filipino-owned even if the company uses
Philippine Depositary Receipts (PDRs) to allow foreign partners to have
commercial interests.
Omidyar Network and North Base Media, groups composed of international journalists and investors, have economic interests but own no part of Rappler.
PDRs are financial tools that individuals
or entities can use to have a stake in a company they believe in. Their
involvement is limited to potential commercial benefits. They neither
get voting rights on the Board nor have a say in the management or
day-to-day operations of the company.
Damore wasn't fired because of facts, his screed wasn't factually weighty. Nothing calling itself "evolutionary psychology" is even remotely scientific - it's just institutionally permitted/promoted Bee Deeism. I would certainly expect anyone having spent any time hereabouts to know better by now. Oh well..., I've come to expect very little of these humans and they seldom disappoint. Quillette grinding its alt-right red-pill axe with a hodge-podge of "evolutionary psychologists"doesn't make any of it legit, but it's like polishing and waxing the red-pill before it's bottled.
Google's executives didn't fire Damore because they disagreed with his "facts" or his "science". Like so many overpaid Thomas Friedmans, these silicon valley phuktards mostly agree with Damore's gamma male gas. Wrong as it is, and like a turd that wouldn't flush, Damore's screed floated around Google for more than a month, proof positive that most of its content hadn't bothered any Google executives at all.
Not having taken action for a month, why did Google all of a sudden clumsily spasm and blow this silly nerd-turd into a headline-grabbing shit-storm?
Simple.
Damore publicly questioned the competence of Google's senior leadership.
Take any executive, question his/her competence and the wisdom of his/her policies in a public forum - and see how long your employment lasts. Questioning the authority of "top people", the "thought-leadership" is the totality of why Damore got fired. Danielle Brown was a failure at Intel. She is guaranteed to be an even more epic failure at Google. What specifically in her background qualifies her to effectively integrate ANY of these hardcore nerd-herds?
Damore had the temerity to point out that Google is failing by its own metrics.
Google's "diversity policy" is guaranteed to fail, not because of
biology as he pseudo-scientifically tried to claim, but because Human Resources and Danielle Brown is a waste of time, money, and conversation - and his screed brought ill-timed light and heat to this inconvenient truth.
Executives are overpaid bureaucrats. Top, thought-leading bureaucrats
aren't hired to provide answers. They exist to provide the answers. When their authority 'work' is questioned, you've questioned their raison d'etre. By positing competing beliefs, Damore effectively attacked the institutional authority installed at Google, and by extension - as we know from Assange's article - the institutional authority that runs elite American governance itself!!!
Top people, thought-leadership, clusters like cliques in a
high school. These overpaid pompous jackasses also behave exactly like cliques in a high school. Gossip, pettiness, insecurity, vindictiveness, and group think are normative qualities at the pinnacle of the elite corporate psychopathocracy. Everything else is foolish peasant conversation....,
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