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A persistent American lawyer has uncovered the undeniable fact that the FBI has been continuously lying, including giving false testimony in court, in response to Freedom of Information requests for its records on Seth Rich.
Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar (13 April 1932 – 21 September 1976) was a Chilean economist, politician and diplomat during the presidency of Salvador Allende.A refugee from the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, Letelier accepted several academic positions in Washington, D.C. following his exit from Chile. In 1976, agents of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), the ...
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So, why would the Deep State be hesitant about murdering Seth Rich? Not saying that the Deep State did it, but....
The assassination of Orlando Letelier refers to the September 21, 1976, car bombing, in Washington, D.C., of Orlando Letelier, a leading opponent of Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet.Letelier, who was living in exile in the United States, was killed along with Ronni Karpen Moffitt, who was in the car along with her husband Michael, who worked for Letelier.
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If you think the FBI is not corrupt, then ask yourself why the agency has never released video recordings from the Oklahoma City bombing?
Kenneth Michael Trentadue (December 19, 1950 – August 21, 1995) was an American citizen who was found hanged in his cell at FTC Oklahoma during the investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing.His death was officially ruled a suicide three years after it occurred. Trentadue's family maintains that he was murdered by members of FBI who mistakenly believed he was involved in the Oklahoma bombing ...
Authorities responding to a complaint about loud music later discovered the body of a man inside an apartment near East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park early Friday.
N.S.: The killer(s) probably blasted the music, so the neighbors wouldn't hear him blast the vic.
Authorities responding to a complaint about loud music later discovered the body of a man inside an apartment near East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park early Friday.
ARLINGTON, Texas — A pregnant woman and her unborn child are dead following a wrong-way crash in Arlington Thursday evening. Police say 27-year-old Tristan Bustillos was the wrong-way driver.
A disabled dump truck towed by Texas authorities to an impound yard was later found to contain 36 immigrants believed to be in the U.S. illegally, the Laredo Police Department said Friday. Police ...
By Jerry PDX
Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 1:15:00 P.M. EST
I found this video on YouTube dated 1/28/2020 from the Hungarian border. You can see a large group of invaders swarming the fence and crossing. They ran back, when they ran into the border control forces.
Difficult to see individual faces but it’s obvious they are all young men, most likely Muslim and African.
A few bursts of machine gun fire, and it wouldn’t be a problem anymore.
Illegal Migrants Trying to Enter Hungary
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•Jan 28, 2020
60 illegals tried to sneak through the Hungarian border this morning, but failed to reach the second fence and fled back to Serbia.
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Friday, January 31, 2020 at 2:21:00 A.M. EST
NNN (and the Rest of MSM) Publicize Black Miscreant, Who Received $20,000 (from Ellen Degeneres and Alicia Keys) for Breaking School Rules
GRA: The school administrator is white—he’s being shown as the villain for attempting to enforce some discipline.
Lester Holt said (trying to rile things up), “A black teenager, being told to cut his hair, received support and money from two celebrities today.”
Ellen DeGeneres and Alicia Keys gave the negro school lawbreaker $20,000 on DeGeneres’ show, plus a speech about how the black kid is being oppressed.
“Why do you want to wear your hair that long?”
“This hair is worn like dis because of my heritage,” he riffed. “I’m celebrating my heritage.”
Ellen said, “You keep wearing it and I ask the principal to please allow Deandre to (do whatever the eff he wants) graduate with his class.
Here’s a short CBS summary:
(CBS NEWS) Ellen DeGeneres and Alicia Keys are standing behind a black teenager from Texas who was told that he would not walk at graduation this spring if he doesn’t cut his dreadlocks.
Deandre Arnold, an 18-year-old student at Barber Hills High School in Mont Belvieu, was told he won’t be able to participate in his graduation ceremony unless he cuts his dreadlocks, which fall past his shoulders.
The school’s policy states that male students’ hair “must not extend below the top of a T-shirt collar, below the eyebrows, or below the ear lobes when let down.”
GRA: He’s being rewarded for disobeying school policy—on national TV—AND the white administrator will either be forced to resign or give in. It also turned into a black vs. white thing—so who will win this one?
Not whitey, with a southern accent.
Let the blacks do what they want—right Ellen? Suuuure. Tell all blacks that whitey can eff off—unless whitey is handing out 20Gs.
Ellen is a red when it comes to white and black.
--GRA
Belgian former pro cyclist-turned-reporter Sven Spoormakers set off a sexism storm on social media with his comments on a female reporter covering an event in Argentina.
N.S.: During the 1970s, it was still possible for men journalists to note the hypocrisy of sluts, er, feminists who wore revealing clothes, and then insulted men who looked at what they had desperately wanted them to look at.
Note that the Twit mob could have largely been offset by support for the man, but Chief Twit Jack Dorsey has rigged things by purposely deplatforming thousands of people (like yours truly) who would have supported Spoormakers.
In a now-deleted tweet, Spoormakers shared a picture of ESPN reporter Belen Mendiguren wearing a low-cut top and interviewing a competitor at the Vuelta a San Juan, with the Belgian commenting on Mendiguren's appearance by writing: "Is it cold in Argentina?" The post drew a frigid response from social media users, who called out Spoormakers with accusations of sexism – not least from ...
Asian Indians now run 3 of the top tech firms in the world with Google, Microsoft and now IBM. India's culture is entirely discriminatory based on class [caste]. This is the worst thing for the US.
You know it's bad when... The share price of the company you were CEO of soars after you're replaced... IBM named Arvind Krishna as chief executive officer, replacing longtime CEO Virginia Rometty. Krishna is currently the head of IBM's cloud and cognitive software unit and was a principal architect of the company's purchase of Red Hat, IBM said in a statement Thursday.
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R.C.: 'Tis true.
And how much outsourcing do Google, Microsoft and IBM do these parasite organizations actually do?
Woman finds boyfriend shot to death in car after walking out of grocery store According to police, the man was found dead inside a vehicle in the Fiesta parking lot in the 800 block of South Wayside Drive.
HOUSTON — A man was shot to death Thursday in the parking lot of a southeast Houston grocery store. According to police, the man was found dead inside a vehicle in the Fiesta parking lot in the ...
Songtext: Nobody knows where my Johnny has gone, but Judy left the same time. Why was he holding her hand, when he's supposed to be mine? It's my party and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to, cry if I want to. You would cry too if it happened to you. Play all my records, keep dancing all night, but leave me alone for a while, 'til Johnny's ...
In October 2018, Arturo Macarro Gutierrez, 36, was arrested after one of the girls told her grandmother "daddy" hurt her, according to Fox 59.. However, Gutierrez is not the girls' father but was in a relationship with their mother at the time, according to Breitbart News.. Prior to his initial arrest, the mother took her daughter to the hospital after she learned of the child's ...
French Asians hit back at racism with "I am not a virus" hashtag after newspaper runs "Yellow Alert" coronavirus headline
French Asians have slammed a national newspaper which ran a headline 'Yellow Alert' on a story concerning the coronavirus outbreak, launching a hashtag 'I am not a virus'.
Coronavirus outbreak is declared a global emergency as SIXTH case is confirmed in the US after Chicago man is infected by his wife in first person-to-person spread in North America
Thousands of Australians have been exposed to coronavirus as 167 flights and 49,000 passengers continue to arrive WEEKLY from China - and outbreak is now declared to be a global emergency
Police say a homeowner shot an intruder who was trying to break into a southwest Albuquerque home. On Thursday, police were called out to the 1300 block of Sonya Ave SW, after they said a ...
Fall 1990 Against Academic Apartheid
By Arthur Schlesinger
Volume 1, Number 1 (Fall 1990) Issue theme: "Inaugural issue"
"What then is the American, this new man?" a French immigrant asked two centuries ago. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur gave the classic answer to his own question. "He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds...Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of man."
The conception of America as a transforming nation, banishing old identities and creating a new one, prevailed through most of American history. It was famously reformulated by Israel Zangwill, an English writer of Russian-Jewish origin, when he called America "God's crucible, the great melting pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming." Most people who came to America expected to become Americans. They wanted to escape a horrid past and to embrace a hopeful future. Their goals were deliverance and assimilation.
Thus Crevecoeur wrote his "Letters from an American Farmer" in his acquired English, not in his native French. Thus immigrants reared in other tongues urged their children to learn English as speedily as possible. German immigrants tried for a moment to gain status for their language, but the effort got nowhere. The dominant culture was Anglo-Saxon and, with modification and enrichment, remained Anglo-Saxon.
REPUDIATION OF THE MELTING POT
The melting pot was one of those metaphors that turned out only to be partly true, and recent years have seen an astonishing repudiation of the whole conception. Many Americans today righteously reject the historic goal of "a new race of man." The contemporary ideal is not assimilation but ethnicity. The escape from origins has given way to a search for "roots." "Ancient prejudices and manners" - the old-time religion, the old-time diet - have made a surprising comeback.
These developments portend a new turn in American life. Instead of a transformative nation with a new and distinct identity, America increasingly sees itself as preservative of old identities, We used to say e puribus unum. Now we glorify pluribus and belittle unum. The melting pot yields to the Tower of Babel.
The new turn has had marked impact on the universities. Very little agitates academia more these days than the demands of passionate minorities for revision of the curriculum: in history, the denunciation of Western civilization courses as cultural imperialism; in literature the denunciation of the "canon," the list of essential books, as an instrumentality of the existing power structure.
A recent report by the New York State Commissioner of Education's task force on "Minorities: Equity and Excellence" luridly describes "African Americans, Asian Americans, Puerto Ricans/Latinos and Native Americans" as "victims of an intellectual and educational oppression." The "systematic bias toward European culture and its derivatives," the report claims, has "a terribly damaging effect on the psyche of young people of African, Asian, Latino and Native American descent" - a doubtful assertion for which no proof is vouchsafed.
Of course teachers of history and literature should give due recognition to women, black Americans, Indians, Hispanics and other groups who were subordinated and ignored in the high noon of male Anglo-Saxon dominance. In recent years they have begun belatedly to do so. But the cult of ethnicity, pressed too far, exacts costs - as, for example, the current pressure to teach history and literature not as intellectual challenges but as psychological therapy.
There is nothing new, of course, about the yearnings of excluded groups for affirmations of their own historical and cultural dignity. When Irish-Americans were thought beyond the pale, their spokesmen responded much as spokesmen for blacks, Hispanics and others respond today. Professor John V. Kelleher, for many years Harvard's distinguished Irish scholar, once recalled his first exposure to Irish-American history - "turgid little essays on the fact that the Continental Army was 76% Irish, or that many of George Washington's closest friends were nuns and priests, or that Lincoln got the major ideas for the Second Inaugural Address from the Hon. Francis P. Mageghegan of Alpaca, New York, a pioneer manufacturer of cast-iron rosary beads." John Kelleher called this "the there's-always-an-Irishman-at-the-bottom-of-it-doing-the-real-work approach to American history."
Fortunately most Irish-Americans disregarded their spokesmen and absorbed the American tradition. About 1930, Kelleher said, those"turgid little essays began to vanish from Irish-American papers." He added: "I wonder whose is the major component in the Continental Army these days?" The answer, one fears, is getting to be black, Jews and Hispanics.
There is often artificiality about the attempts to use history to minister to psychological needs. When I encounter black insistence on inserting Africa into mainstream curricula, I recall the 1956 presidential campaign. Adlai Stevenson, for whom I was working, had a weak record on civil rights in America but was a champion of African nationalism. I suggested to a group of sympathetic black leaders that maybe if Stevenson talked to black audiences about Africa, he could make up for his deficiencies on civil rights. My friends laughed and said that American blacks couldn't care less about Africa. That is no longer the case; but one can't escape the feeling that present emotions are more manufactured than organic.
Let us by all means teach women's history, black history, Hispanic history. But let us teach them as history, not as a means of promoting group self-esteem. I don't often agree with Gore Vidal, but I liked his remark the other day: "What I hate is good citizenship history. That has wrecked every history book. Now we're getting 'The Hispanics are warm and joyous and have brought such wonder into our lives,' you know, and before them the Jews, and before them the blacks. And the women, I mean, cut it out!"
Novelists, moralists, politicians, fabulators can go beyond the historical evidence to tell inspiring stories. But historians are custodians of professional standards. Their objective is critical analysis, accuracy and objectivity, not making people feel better about themselves.
Heaven knows how dismally historians fall short of their ideals; how sadly our interpretations are dominated and distorted by unconscious preconceptions; how obsessions of race and nation blind us to our own bias. All historians may in one way or another mythologize history. But the answer to bad history is not "good citizenship history" - more bad history written from a different viewpoint. The answer to bad history is better history.
The ideological assault in English departments on the "canon" as an instrument of political oppression implies the existence of a monolithic body of work designed to enforce the "hegemony" of a class or race or sex. In fact, most great literature and much good history are deeply subversive in their impact on orthodoxies. Consider the American canon: Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Mark Twain, Henry Adams, William and Henry James, Holmes, Dreiser, Faulkner. Lackeys of the ruling class? Agents of American imperialism?
Let us by all means learn about other continents and other cultures. But, lamentable as some may think it, we inherit an American experience, as America inherits a European experience. To deny the essentially European origins of American culture is to falsify history.
We should take pride in our distinctive inheritance as other nations take pride in their distinctive inheritances. Certainly there is no need for Western civilization, the source of the ideas of individual freedom and political democracy to which most of the world now aspires, to apologize to cultures based on despotism, superstition, tribalism and fanaticism. Let us abjure what Bertrand Russell called the fallacy of "the superior virtue of the oppressed."
Of course we must teach the Western democratic tradition in its true proportions - not as a fixed, final and complacent orthodoxy, intolerant of deviation and dissent, but as an ever-evolving creed fulfilling its ideals through debate, self-criticism, protest, disrespect and irreverence, a tradition in which all groups have rights of heterodoxy and opportunities for self-assertion. It is a tradition that has empowered people of all nations and races. Little can have a more "terribly damaging effect on the psyche" than for educators to tell young blacks and Hispanics and Asians that it is not for them.
ONE STEP AT A TIME
Belief in one's own culture does not mean disdain for other cultures. But one step at a time: No culture can hope to ingest other cultures all at once, certainly not before it ingests its own. After we have mastered our own culture, we can explore the world.
If we repudiate the quite marvelous inheritance that history has bestowed on us, we invite the fragmentation of our own culture into a quarrelsome spatter of enclaves, ghettos and tribes. The bonds of cohesion in our society are sufficiently fragile, or so it seems to me, that it makes no sense to strain them by encouraging and exalting cultural and linguistic apartheid. The rejection of the melting pot points the republic in the direction of incoherence and chaos.
In the 21st century, if present trends hold, non-whites in the U.S. will begin to outnumber whites. This will bring inevitable changes in the national ethos but not, one must hope, at the expense of national cohesion. Let the new Americans forswear the cult of ghettoization and agree with Crevecoeur, as with most immigrants in the two centuries since, that in America "individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of man."
He who molds public sentiment
goes deeper than he who enacts
statutes or pronounces decisions.
He makes statutes or decisions
possible or impossible to execute.
- Abraham Lincoln during
the Lincoln-Douglas debates
About the author
Mr. Schlesinger is Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at the City University of New York and winner of Pulitzer Prizes in history and biography. This article is reprinted, with his permission, from the Wall Street Journal.
N.S.: The above article presented the core of what was to become Schlesinger's book, The Dis-Uniting of America. The book was inspired by Schlesinger's dispiriting experiences serving on a panel formed by Gov. Mario Cuomo's New York State Department of Education commissioner, Thomas Sobol, which was supposed to "reform" the public schools' social science curriculum. The exercise was a travesty, and it was all Sobol's fault. He named black supremacist Leonard Jeffries to the panel, and Jeffries took over. The document that Jeffries and his comrades produced, A Curriculum of Inclusion, was a recipe for white genocide. Rather than hold their fire, panel members Schlesinger and Diane Ravitch blew the whistle on the gangsters. An embarrassed Cuomo had Sobol put together a new panel, chaired by genocidal racist Ali Mazrui. Although Mazrui's screed lacked the slapdash syntax and revolutionary rhetoric and of the Jeffries-dominated one, its ideas were identical. However, the forces which protested Jeffries & Co. accepted the new pedantic program for genocide. (I wrote about both versions in my magazine, A Different Drummer in 1992.) Neoconservative sociologist Nathan Glazer wrote a slender book on the debate, We are All Multiculturalists Now, which Harvard University Press published in 1997. Glazer had served on the second committee, whose report was titled, One Nation, Many Peoples: A Declaration of Cultural Interdependence.
Glazer, like his neoconservative cronies, had earlier fought against affirmative action, and on behalf of meritocracy, but We are All Multiculturalists Now was a declaration of unconditional surrender. At dinner parties, he would make whispered asides to mutual friends that sounded like me, but in public... Glazer's title was not meant to be taken as ironic.
The only thing missing that I’d planned for this presentation is an interview with Jerry Fielding, who was about the same age as Peckinpah, died about as young, and apparently was almost as crazy. Fielding said that Sam didn’t know anything about music, but that didn’t stop him from criticizing whatever Fielding had just composed for whatever picture he was working on for him. Fielding said the only solution to Peckinpah’s criticisms was to punch his lights out.
I guess the KK caught up with that clip.
The Wild Bunch (1969) 50th Anniversary with L.Q. Jones and Bo Hopkins A Word on Westerns
“2019 marks the 50th anniversary of director Sam Peckinpah’s THE WILD BUNCH. Many consider it the greatest western film of all time. To celebrate the occasion A WORD ON WESTERNS goes behind-the-scenes combining past interviews with the film’s actors, L.Q. Jones & Bo Hopkins, stuntman Gary Combs and wardrobe supervisor Gordon Dawson.”
“Peckinpah, You Don’t Have Enough Talent to Direct Me to the Men’s Room”: L.Q. Jones on Sam Peckinpah
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Ernest Borgnine on The Wild Bunch
Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
Spoiler alert: The late Ernie Borgnine (1917-2012), may he rest in peace, was a lousy interview. Everyone, in his memory, was (with the possible exception of ex-wife Ethel Merman) “wonderful.” If you’re any good as an interviewer, your attitude needs to be that of T.R.’s only daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1984-1980), who used to invite select guests at formal dinners, “If you haven't anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.”
Jul 9, 2012
American Film Institute
“Ernest Borgnine talks about the critics first screening of THE WILD BUNCH, and Sam Peckinpah's reaction to the response. THE WILD BUNCH ranks #69 on AFI's List, 100 Years...100 Thrills.”
Behind the Scenes Photos: The Wild Bunch
Jerry Fielding: The Wild Bunch (1969) Main (Opening) Title
Extended Cut from Jerry Fielding’s Score to The Wild Bunch
“La Golondrina” (“The Swallow”), Mexican Song Used in The Wild Bunch
Couple who claimed to have found their 4-year-old son drowning in a pool are indicted on murder and torture charges - with the father also accused of raping the boy
A California couple who have been under suspicion of causing their four-year-old son's death have been indicted on torture and murder charges, more than six months after the toddler was found ...
The Super Bowl commercial is an act of appreciation to the University of Wisconsin team of veterinarians who saved Scout, the CEO of WeatherTech's dog.
The House impeachment report arrived under the name of Jerrold Nadler and under his auspices as the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The report is posted online here. It is widely described as a 658-page document, as in this NBC News story, but the linked report runs to 298 pages. I may be missing something.
In any event, Michael Tracey has actually read the report. In the RealClearPolitics column "Democrats' Dubious Impeachment Subtext of Treason," Tracey extracts the leading motif of the Democrats' case against Trump.
Based on his reading of the report, Tracey observes that "these impeachment articles were never strictly about punishing Trump for mentioning Joe Biden on a phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky. That's the popular bite-sized depiction of Trump's purported wrongdoing, but by the House Judiciary Committee's own telling, the scope of their impeachment went far beyond just that one narrow allegation — and is fraught with highly ideological assumptions that have so far gone largely ignored."
What's it all about? We have here the continuation of the theme of the old Russia hoax wine in a new bottle: Trump has "betray[ed] the nation."
What does this mean, exactly? The Judiciary Committee report helpfully provides a definition of the relevant terms. In a section describing what they believe constitutes "impeachable treason," the Democratic majority writes, "At the very heart of 'Treason' is deliberate betrayal of the nation and its security."
Trump has been effectively impeached for treason, Tracey observes, except that the drafters of the report recognized that inserting the word "treason" in the text might prove a tad controversial: "[I}nstead they just heavily insinuate it, and confirm that they are charging the president with treason in supporting materials that few will ever read."
Tracey invites us to be clear on what was done here: "The Democrats set forth a definition of treason in their lengthy impeachment report, and then inserted that same definition into the final impeachment articles — except without using the actual word 'treason" in the text. This would seem like a rather significant development, but most of the media discussion has blithely glossed over it."
Tracey has much more to say, all of it worth reading, before he concludes with a question that must be rhetorical: "Is the reality of what was done here going to set in any time soon?"
Stephen A. Smith: Kobe Bryant's Comment about Trayvon Martin Was Right
N.S.: Sorry, buddy, abut sitting on this one.
I hit the link, where Smith had Bryant saying something that sounded o.k., but it contradicted with other reports I'd heard about Bryant on Martin. The more I searched for a clear statement by Bryant, the less clear things became.
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – School officials are urging increased sensitivity on campus at an East Los Angeles high school after a video surfaced of a teacher calling Kobe Bryant a "horrible person" and a rapist just one day after the Laker legend's death.
Abigail Disney on Kobe Bryant's past: "He was a rapist. Deal with it."
Abigail Disney has weighed in on Kobe Bryant's controversial past, after actress Evan Rachel Wood and a Washington Post journalist were berated for tweeting about a rape allegation.
DALLAS — Photographer Kauwuane Burton moved the tall kids to the top of the long staircase and the youngest ones to the front. "Little man, come over here," he said, placing one of the ...
