By The Last Boy In Line
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Dear Humanity:
Sincerely,
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Dear Humanity
Dear Humanity
By The Last Boy In Line
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Dear Humanity:
Sincerely,
By The Last Boy In Line
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Dear Humanity:
Sincerely,
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Omar, Tlaib, and the United States of Israel
Omar, Tlaib, and the United States of Israel
By Kurt Nimmo
Information Clearing House
August 28, 2019
I’m trying to remember when Israel wasn’t the fifty-first state.
It receives my tax money and a blank check by the United States
government to torture, ethnically cleanse, and murder Palestinians.
Israelis are apparently more important and cherished than
Americans, who are here just to pay the bills and donate their
children for the next war cooked up by the Israel-first neocons
and their Demopublican allies in Congress.
It is now approaching a time when criticizing Israel for its abhorrent
behavior will be illegal, a punishable crime.
I’m not fond of the identity politics pushed by Rep. Omar and Tlaib.
However, they are one hundred percent spot on about Israel.
Rep. Omar is absolutely correct. Israel is not a democracy.
It is more accurately described as a racist apartheid state where
the indigenous inhabitants are compared to “drugged cockroaches
in a bottle” (Gen. Raphael Eitan) and “beasts walking on two legs” (Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin).
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told Zionist settlers in
1988 that Palestinians must be “crushed like grasshoppers,”
while Ehud Barak dismissed them as hungry crocodiles.
For the leaders of Israel, Palestinians are not even human.
They’re insects, reptiles.
This is not a problem or even a concern for our President Donald
Trump, or for the majority of Congress, complicit in crimes against
humanity and never miss a chance to praise racists who pretend to
be our friends.
In fact, the Zionists have nothing but contempt for the useful idiots
in Congress.
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu didn’t know the cameras were
rolling when he said, “I know what America is. America is a thing
you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t
get in [our] way.”
Most Americans are only vaguely aware of the vicious racism
and religious intolerance practiced against the Palestinians.
Zionists hate Islam and Christianity with equal vehemence.
The state of Israel has passed laws discriminating against non-Jews.
Only Jews have an exclusive right to national self-determination.
“The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was
‘given’ by a foreign power to another people for the creation of
a new state,” Bertrand Russell noted.
“The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent
people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict,
their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to
endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?”
Endure?
The average American finances this cruelty.
And now he or she is told it is “antisemitic” to criticize Israel and
may be fined or imprisoned for the crime of organizing a boycott
or speaking out (the latter is not fully criminalized yet like it is in
much of Europe).
Finally, Trump has once again signaled he is more interested
in the welfare of a small and vicious apartheid state.
He has zero respect or regard for the people of Minnesota
and Michigan, the voters who elected Tlaib and Omar.
Maybe Trump believes the thousands of Americans who voted
for Tlaib and Omar are terrorists and unworthy of consideration.
This “relationship” with Israel is contributing to the demise
of America.
Not only is this “special relationship” smothering the Constitution,
but it has also put the children or our children in hock to pay the
tab for Israel’s wars against Iraq, Syria, and possibly before we
know it Iran.
None of these countries pose a threat to America.
It’s not in our national security interest to attack them.
It is, however, in the interest of the fifty-first US state, Israel.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52146.htm
By Kurt Nimmo
Information Clearing House
August 28, 2019
I’m trying to remember when Israel wasn’t the fifty-first state.
It receives my tax money and a blank check by the United States
government to torture, ethnically cleanse, and murder Palestinians.
Israelis are apparently more important and cherished than
Americans, who are here just to pay the bills and donate their
children for the next war cooked up by the Israel-first neocons
and their Demopublican allies in Congress.
It is now approaching a time when criticizing Israel for its abhorrent
behavior will be illegal, a punishable crime.
I’m not fond of the identity politics pushed by Rep. Omar and Tlaib.
However, they are one hundred percent spot on about Israel.
Rep. Omar is absolutely correct. Israel is not a democracy.
It is more accurately described as a racist apartheid state where
the indigenous inhabitants are compared to “drugged cockroaches
in a bottle” (Gen. Raphael Eitan) and “beasts walking on two legs” (Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin).
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told Zionist settlers in
1988 that Palestinians must be “crushed like grasshoppers,”
while Ehud Barak dismissed them as hungry crocodiles.
For the leaders of Israel, Palestinians are not even human.
They’re insects, reptiles.
This is not a problem or even a concern for our President Donald
Trump, or for the majority of Congress, complicit in crimes against
humanity and never miss a chance to praise racists who pretend to
be our friends.
In fact, the Zionists have nothing but contempt for the useful idiots
in Congress.
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu didn’t know the cameras were
rolling when he said, “I know what America is. America is a thing
you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t
get in [our] way.”
Most Americans are only vaguely aware of the vicious racism
and religious intolerance practiced against the Palestinians.
Zionists hate Islam and Christianity with equal vehemence.
The state of Israel has passed laws discriminating against non-Jews.
Only Jews have an exclusive right to national self-determination.
“The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was
‘given’ by a foreign power to another people for the creation of
a new state,” Bertrand Russell noted.
“The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent
people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict,
their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to
endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?”
Endure?
The average American finances this cruelty.
And now he or she is told it is “antisemitic” to criticize Israel and
may be fined or imprisoned for the crime of organizing a boycott
or speaking out (the latter is not fully criminalized yet like it is in
much of Europe).
Finally, Trump has once again signaled he is more interested
in the welfare of a small and vicious apartheid state.
He has zero respect or regard for the people of Minnesota
and Michigan, the voters who elected Tlaib and Omar.
Maybe Trump believes the thousands of Americans who voted
for Tlaib and Omar are terrorists and unworthy of consideration.
This “relationship” with Israel is contributing to the demise
of America.
Not only is this “special relationship” smothering the Constitution,
but it has also put the children or our children in hock to pay the
tab for Israel’s wars against Iraq, Syria, and possibly before we
know it Iran.
None of these countries pose a threat to America.
It’s not in our national security interest to attack them.
It is, however, in the interest of the fifty-first US state, Israel.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52146.htm
Friday, August 23, 2019
Dear AOC Plus 3
Dear AOC Plus 3
By The Last Boy In Line
Friday, August 23, 2019
Dear AOC Plus 3:
Sincerely,
By The Last Boy In Line
Friday, August 23, 2019
Dear AOC Plus 3:
Sincerely,
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Killing Julian Assange Slowly
Killing Julian Assange Slowly
By Stephen Lendman
Information Clearing House
August 20, 2019
Since April 11 when unlawfully dragged from Ecuador’s London
embassy to captivity, Assange has languished under draconian
conditions in a UK dungeon at the behest of the Trump regime,
wanting him tried in the US for the “crime” of truth-telling
journalism.
Dark forces in the US, other Western states, Israel, and most
everywhere else greatly fear widespread public knowledge of
their wrongdoing against ordinary people to benefit privileged
ones.
They want it kept out of the mainstream notably not on television
and in print publications with widespread readership.
If the fourth estate gave news consumers a daily diet of what’s
vital to know about domestic and geopolitical issues, another
world would be possible — plowshares replacing swords, social
justice over neoliberal harshness, equity and justice for all,
nations fit and safe to live in for all their citizens and residents.
Notably in hegemonic America, if ordinary people understood
the bipartisan plot against their rights and welfare in service
to monied interests, a national convulsion could follow, a possible
revolutionary uprising, maybe yellow vest-type protests involving
millions demanding justice.
That’s why dark forces in America want whistleblowers like
Chelsea Manning and investigative journalists like Julian Assange
silenced and punished.
Digital democracy is the last frontier of free and open expression,
the only reliable independent space for real news, information and
analysis – enabling anyone to freely express views on any topics.
Government censorship is an ominous possibility.
In America and other Western societies, democracies in name only,
the real thing prohibited, censorship increasingly is the new normal.
What’s going on is the hallmark of totalitarian rule – controlling
the message, eliminating what conflicts with it, notably on major
geopolitical issues.
Losing the right of free expression endangers all others.
When truth-telling and dissent are considered threats to national
security, free and open societies no longer exist – the slippery slope
America and other Western societies are heading on.
On August 11, Activist Post.com reported that “leaked documents
show (the) White House is planning (an) executive order to censor
the Internet.”
If indeed planned, the Trump regime plot involves having the
corporate-controlled FCC and FTC decide what’s permitted and
banned online, a frightening prospect.
In America, Big Brother watches everyone.
Will the same dark force henceforth end digital democracy as now
exists by executive order — to become the law of the land if not
judicially overruled.
Are things heading toward criminalizing truth-telling independent
journalists, risking a fate similar to Assange.
John Pilger tweeted the following:
“Do not forget Julian #Assange. Or you will lose him. I saw him
in Belmarsh prison and his health has deteriorated.”
“Treated worse than a murderer, he is isolated, medicated and
denied the tools to fight the bogus charges of a US extradition.
I now fear for him. Do not forget him.”
His mother Christine tweeted the following:
“My son Julian Assange is being slowly, cruelly & unlawfully
assassinated by the US/UK Govts for multi-award winning
journalism revealing war crimes & corruption! I’m tweeting
/retweeting #FreeAssangeNOW.”
In May, UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer said
the following:
“My most urgent concern is that, in the United States, Mr. Assange
would be exposed to a real risk of serious violations of his human
rights, including his freedom of expression, his right to a fair trial
and the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment,” adding:
“In the course of the past nine years, Mr. Assange has been exposed
to persistent, progressively severe abuse ranging from systematic
judicial persecution and arbitrary confinement in the Ecuadorian
embassy, to his oppressive isolation, harassment and surveillance
inside the embassy, and from deliberate collective ridicule, insults
and humiliation, to open instigation of violence and even repeated
calls for his assassination.”
On May 9, Melzer visited him at London’s high-security Belmarsh
prison, accompanied by two medical experts on the effects of
torture and other forms of abuse, explaining the following:
“It was obvious that Mr Assange’s health has been seriously affected
by the extremely hostile and arbitrary environment he has been
exposed to for many years” — compounded by imprisonment at
Belmarsh on orders by the Trump regime.
Besides poor physical health needing treatment not adequately
gotten, Assange showed “all symptoms typical for prolonged
exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress,
chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma.”
Three months later, he likely deteriorated further, last spring
too weak and ill to communicate normally.
Britain in cahoots with the Trump regime may want him dead
from prolonged imprisonment and neglect.
They may not want him extradited following a federal district
court dismissal of a DNC suit against Russia, WikiLeaks, and the
Trump campaign.
Judge John Koeltl said “(t)he DNC cannot hold these defendants
liable for aiding and abetting publication when they would have
been entitled to publish the stolen documents themselves without
liability,” he stressed, adding:
Its lawsuit was “entirely divorced” from the facts…(riddled with)
substantive legal defect(s).”
“The Court has considered all of the arguments raised by the
parties. (They’re) either moot or without merit.”
Absolving WikiLeaks of wrongdoing applies to Assange, its founder
and editor-in-chief when active — meaning US federal courts at
the district, appeals, and highest level could absolve him at trial,
citing First Amendment free expression rights, defeating the Trump
regime’s aim to imprison him longterm.
With this in mind, they may want him languishing behind bars in
London, wanting him killed by neglect to avoid an embarrassing
judicial defeat if US courts support First Amendment speech and
media freedoms — what earlier Supreme Court rulings upheld.
WikiLeaks is an investigative journalism operation. Media freedom
is a constitutional right — no matter how unacceptable or offensive
views expressed may be to certain parties.
Abolishing the right jeopardizes all others.
Injustice to Chelsea Manning and Assange threatens the right of
everyone to express views freely.
It’s the most fundamental of all rights.
Without it, anyone expressing views publicly that challenge the
official narrative on vital issues is vulnerable to prosecution for
the “crime” of speech or media freedom.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52098.htm
By Stephen Lendman
Information Clearing House
August 20, 2019
Since April 11 when unlawfully dragged from Ecuador’s London
embassy to captivity, Assange has languished under draconian
conditions in a UK dungeon at the behest of the Trump regime,
wanting him tried in the US for the “crime” of truth-telling
journalism.
Dark forces in the US, other Western states, Israel, and most
everywhere else greatly fear widespread public knowledge of
their wrongdoing against ordinary people to benefit privileged
ones.
They want it kept out of the mainstream notably not on television
and in print publications with widespread readership.
If the fourth estate gave news consumers a daily diet of what’s
vital to know about domestic and geopolitical issues, another
world would be possible — plowshares replacing swords, social
justice over neoliberal harshness, equity and justice for all,
nations fit and safe to live in for all their citizens and residents.
Notably in hegemonic America, if ordinary people understood
the bipartisan plot against their rights and welfare in service
to monied interests, a national convulsion could follow, a possible
revolutionary uprising, maybe yellow vest-type protests involving
millions demanding justice.
That’s why dark forces in America want whistleblowers like
Chelsea Manning and investigative journalists like Julian Assange
silenced and punished.
Digital democracy is the last frontier of free and open expression,
the only reliable independent space for real news, information and
analysis – enabling anyone to freely express views on any topics.
Government censorship is an ominous possibility.
In America and other Western societies, democracies in name only,
the real thing prohibited, censorship increasingly is the new normal.
What’s going on is the hallmark of totalitarian rule – controlling
the message, eliminating what conflicts with it, notably on major
geopolitical issues.
Losing the right of free expression endangers all others.
When truth-telling and dissent are considered threats to national
security, free and open societies no longer exist – the slippery slope
America and other Western societies are heading on.
On August 11, Activist Post.com reported that “leaked documents
show (the) White House is planning (an) executive order to censor
the Internet.”
If indeed planned, the Trump regime plot involves having the
corporate-controlled FCC and FTC decide what’s permitted and
banned online, a frightening prospect.
In America, Big Brother watches everyone.
Will the same dark force henceforth end digital democracy as now
exists by executive order — to become the law of the land if not
judicially overruled.
Are things heading toward criminalizing truth-telling independent
journalists, risking a fate similar to Assange.
John Pilger tweeted the following:
“Do not forget Julian #Assange. Or you will lose him. I saw him
in Belmarsh prison and his health has deteriorated.”
“Treated worse than a murderer, he is isolated, medicated and
denied the tools to fight the bogus charges of a US extradition.
I now fear for him. Do not forget him.”
His mother Christine tweeted the following:
“My son Julian Assange is being slowly, cruelly & unlawfully
assassinated by the US/UK Govts for multi-award winning
journalism revealing war crimes & corruption! I’m tweeting
/retweeting #FreeAssangeNOW.”
In May, UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer said
the following:
“My most urgent concern is that, in the United States, Mr. Assange
would be exposed to a real risk of serious violations of his human
rights, including his freedom of expression, his right to a fair trial
and the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment,” adding:
“In the course of the past nine years, Mr. Assange has been exposed
to persistent, progressively severe abuse ranging from systematic
judicial persecution and arbitrary confinement in the Ecuadorian
embassy, to his oppressive isolation, harassment and surveillance
inside the embassy, and from deliberate collective ridicule, insults
and humiliation, to open instigation of violence and even repeated
calls for his assassination.”
On May 9, Melzer visited him at London’s high-security Belmarsh
prison, accompanied by two medical experts on the effects of
torture and other forms of abuse, explaining the following:
“It was obvious that Mr Assange’s health has been seriously affected
by the extremely hostile and arbitrary environment he has been
exposed to for many years” — compounded by imprisonment at
Belmarsh on orders by the Trump regime.
Besides poor physical health needing treatment not adequately
gotten, Assange showed “all symptoms typical for prolonged
exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress,
chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma.”
Three months later, he likely deteriorated further, last spring
too weak and ill to communicate normally.
Britain in cahoots with the Trump regime may want him dead
from prolonged imprisonment and neglect.
They may not want him extradited following a federal district
court dismissal of a DNC suit against Russia, WikiLeaks, and the
Trump campaign.
Judge John Koeltl said “(t)he DNC cannot hold these defendants
liable for aiding and abetting publication when they would have
been entitled to publish the stolen documents themselves without
liability,” he stressed, adding:
Its lawsuit was “entirely divorced” from the facts…(riddled with)
substantive legal defect(s).”
“The Court has considered all of the arguments raised by the
parties. (They’re) either moot or without merit.”
Absolving WikiLeaks of wrongdoing applies to Assange, its founder
and editor-in-chief when active — meaning US federal courts at
the district, appeals, and highest level could absolve him at trial,
citing First Amendment free expression rights, defeating the Trump
regime’s aim to imprison him longterm.
With this in mind, they may want him languishing behind bars in
London, wanting him killed by neglect to avoid an embarrassing
judicial defeat if US courts support First Amendment speech and
media freedoms — what earlier Supreme Court rulings upheld.
WikiLeaks is an investigative journalism operation. Media freedom
is a constitutional right — no matter how unacceptable or offensive
views expressed may be to certain parties.
Abolishing the right jeopardizes all others.
Injustice to Chelsea Manning and Assange threatens the right of
everyone to express views freely.
It’s the most fundamental of all rights.
Without it, anyone expressing views publicly that challenge the
official narrative on vital issues is vulnerable to prosecution for
the “crime” of speech or media freedom.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52098.htm
Friday, August 16, 2019
Dear Jeffrey Epstein
Dear Jeffrey Epstein
By The Last Boy In Line
Friday, August 16, 2019
Dear Jeffrey Epstein:
Sincerely,
By The Last Boy In Line
Friday, August 16, 2019
Dear Jeffrey Epstein:
Sincerely,
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Who Wanted Jeffrey Epstein Dead?
Who Wanted Jeffrey Epstein Dead?
By Patrick Martin
Information Clearing House
August 14, 2019
Let’s begin by stating the obvious: Jeffrey Epstein’s violent death in
a Manhattan jail cell prevents a trial or a plea deal that threatened
to expose business associates and political enablers who made use
of the services provided by his alleged sex-trafficking activities or
who profited from this and other sordid operations of the
multimillionaire money manager.
Given the extraordinary circumstances surrounding his death,
the efforts of the media—and the New York Times in particular
to dismiss out of hand any suggestion that Epstein’s death was
the result of anything but a suicide reek of a high-level cover-up.
Whether he was strangled in a jail cell by a hired killer or allowed
to hang himself is almost beside the point.
Epstein’s life came to a violent end while in the custody of the
US government.
This is an undeniable fact.
Even if he committed suicide, the act could not have succeeded
without the direct complicity of those who were responsible for
his safety.
And while Epstein was accused of deplorable crimes, it should
hardly be necessary to point out that he—yes, even Epstein had
the right to a vigorous defense in a trial.
That his untimely death preempts and prevents the trial from
taking place is a matter of staggering seriousness.
The suspicion of homicide is clearly justified.
That Epstein was murdered—whether by an assailant or by the
calculated enabling of his jail cell suicide—is far more plausible
than the official account of what took place at the Metropolitan
Correctional Center over the past three weeks.
According to prison officials, Epstein was found hanged in
his cell Saturday morning.
His guards had neglected to perform their every-half-hour
inspection during the night and only belatedly took a look
at their prisoner at 6:30 a.m.
This occurred even though Epstein was arguably the most notorious
prisoner currently in federal custody, with his arrest on sex-
trafficking charges given saturation coverage in the New York
and national media.
Moreover he had been placed on suicide watch from July 23 when
he was reportedly found unconscious in his cell with marks on his
neck until July 31 when the special provisions including 24/7
surveillance, were lifted without explanation.
Epstein’s attorneys and other visitors said they saw no signs that
the multimillionaire was in low spirits or likely to take his own life
and he had been participating in preparations for his legal defense
in an upcoming trial for as much as 12 hours a day.
Investigations have now begun by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,
Attorney General William Barr and the Justice Department
inspector general, all of whom have ample reason to rig the
result and cover up what really happened.
So far, the most elementary facts have been withheld from
the public.
It has not been reported how and with what material Epstein was
hanged or whether there is a video recording of his cell that would
show the alleged, “suicide” or otherwise shed light on the physical
circumstances of his death.
The legal and political circumstances of Epstein’s death are a
different matter; they strongly suggest that Epstein had become
a danger to an entire section of the Wall Street and political elite,
who had a powerful motive to silence him.
The media has quickly moved to denounce anyone who points
to the obviously concocted character of the official story as
the promoter of a, “conspiracy theory.”
The New York Times is aggressively promoting the official claims
of suicide.
The newspaper’s editorial Sunday begins, “By apparently
committing suicide in his Manhattan jail cell on Saturday morning,
Jeffrey Epstein spared himself a lengthy trial that could have sent
him to prison for the rest of his life on federal sex-trafficking
charges.”
The use of the word, “apparently” is entirely out of place.
In the absence of any details relating to this death nothing
is, “apparent.”
The Times is simply conditioning the public to accept the suicide
narrative without an urgently required criminal investigation into
Epstein’s death which must be considered suspicious.
Furthermore, why does the Times state that Epstein was, “spared”
a trial?
Do the editors have information that supports their assumption
that Epstein did not want to have a trial?
What about the possibility that his death, “spares” other powerful
and influential people from having their connections to Epstein’s
proven and alleged criminal activities, either sexual or financial,
brought into the public eye by a lengthy legal proceeding.
“Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department’s
inspector general would open an investigation into the
circumstances of Mr. Epstein’s death in federal custody. While
Mr. Epstein will never face a legal reckoning, the investigations
into his crimes and those of others connected to him must continue.
His premature death shouldn’t stop law enforcement authorities
from finishing the job that they finally took up seriously years
after they should have.”
This is cynical claptrap: The Times knows full well that Epstein's
death without a trial or conviction (technically, Epstein dies an
innocent man, at least on the most recent charges), will effectively
end the investigation.
There is no longer the danger of a plea deal which Epstein's lawyers
would certainly have attempted to negotiate in return for his
testimony in trials of others whom he might have implicated in the
alleged sex-trafficking ring.
The Times does not raise these obvious issues, let alone demand
a criminal investigation and public hearings into the circumstances
of Epstein's highly suspicious death.
Any elementary review of the facts makes clear that Epstein’s
death must be treated as a criminal investigation.
Only 24 hours before his death, more than 2,000 pages of
documents were released by a Florida court in a civil suit
brought by one of the women who has charged Epstein with
enslaving her as a teenager as part of his systematic abuse
of young girls.
The woman filed a defamation suit against Epstein’s partner,
Ghislaine Maxwell, who allegedly had acted as a procuress,
recruiting teenage girls to service him.
Maxwell is herself a product of the super-rich milieu that
vomited up Epstein.
She is the daughter of the late British billionaire publisher
Robert Maxwell, also the target of numerous allegations of
fraud and other financial crimes.
In a grisly similarity, Robert Maxwell died under mysterious
circumstances in 1991, when he allegedly fell off his yacht,
the Lady Ghislaine (named after the daughter), and his naked
body was found floating in the Atlantic Ocean several days later.
The death was ruled accidental, although both suicide
and homicide were widely suggested at the time.
The documents released Thursday named a number of prominent
political and society figures as patrons of Epstein’s sex ring,
including two top Democrats, former Senate Majority Leader
George Mitchell and former governor and Clinton cabinet member
Bill Richardson, a one-time presidential candidate, as well as
Prince Andrew, second son of the Queen of England.
Whatever the truth of the allegations against these individuals,
there is no question that Epstein was for many years an integral
part of the financial and political elite in the United States,
hobnobbing with former president's like Bill Clinton.
The death of Epstein so obviously invites the assumption that this
is a case of removing an inconvenient personality, one who could
have implicated dozens if not hundreds of powerful people if he
were finally brought to trial, that the official claim of suicide
made possible by neglect on the part of low-ranking prison guards
has been greeted with disbelief.
Epstein’s death evokes recollections of Francis Ford Coppola’s,
"The Godfather."
The Epstein case, in all its criminal depravity, sheds light on
the state of American capitalist society.
The super-rich prey upon the poor and the vulnerable using
them as they wish.
They make use of their connections to cover up their crimes or
depending on the circumstances, arrange for the elimination of
those former friends and associates whose activities have become
an inconvenience or a danger.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52091.htm
By Patrick Martin
Information Clearing House
August 14, 2019
Let’s begin by stating the obvious: Jeffrey Epstein’s violent death in
a Manhattan jail cell prevents a trial or a plea deal that threatened
to expose business associates and political enablers who made use
of the services provided by his alleged sex-trafficking activities or
who profited from this and other sordid operations of the
multimillionaire money manager.
Given the extraordinary circumstances surrounding his death,
the efforts of the media—and the New York Times in particular
to dismiss out of hand any suggestion that Epstein’s death was
the result of anything but a suicide reek of a high-level cover-up.
Whether he was strangled in a jail cell by a hired killer or allowed
to hang himself is almost beside the point.
Epstein’s life came to a violent end while in the custody of the
US government.
This is an undeniable fact.
Even if he committed suicide, the act could not have succeeded
without the direct complicity of those who were responsible for
his safety.
And while Epstein was accused of deplorable crimes, it should
hardly be necessary to point out that he—yes, even Epstein had
the right to a vigorous defense in a trial.
That his untimely death preempts and prevents the trial from
taking place is a matter of staggering seriousness.
The suspicion of homicide is clearly justified.
That Epstein was murdered—whether by an assailant or by the
calculated enabling of his jail cell suicide—is far more plausible
than the official account of what took place at the Metropolitan
Correctional Center over the past three weeks.
According to prison officials, Epstein was found hanged in
his cell Saturday morning.
His guards had neglected to perform their every-half-hour
inspection during the night and only belatedly took a look
at their prisoner at 6:30 a.m.
This occurred even though Epstein was arguably the most notorious
prisoner currently in federal custody, with his arrest on sex-
trafficking charges given saturation coverage in the New York
and national media.
Moreover he had been placed on suicide watch from July 23 when
he was reportedly found unconscious in his cell with marks on his
neck until July 31 when the special provisions including 24/7
surveillance, were lifted without explanation.
Epstein’s attorneys and other visitors said they saw no signs that
the multimillionaire was in low spirits or likely to take his own life
and he had been participating in preparations for his legal defense
in an upcoming trial for as much as 12 hours a day.
Investigations have now begun by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,
Attorney General William Barr and the Justice Department
inspector general, all of whom have ample reason to rig the
result and cover up what really happened.
So far, the most elementary facts have been withheld from
the public.
It has not been reported how and with what material Epstein was
hanged or whether there is a video recording of his cell that would
show the alleged, “suicide” or otherwise shed light on the physical
circumstances of his death.
The legal and political circumstances of Epstein’s death are a
different matter; they strongly suggest that Epstein had become
a danger to an entire section of the Wall Street and political elite,
who had a powerful motive to silence him.
The media has quickly moved to denounce anyone who points
to the obviously concocted character of the official story as
the promoter of a, “conspiracy theory.”
The New York Times is aggressively promoting the official claims
of suicide.
The newspaper’s editorial Sunday begins, “By apparently
committing suicide in his Manhattan jail cell on Saturday morning,
Jeffrey Epstein spared himself a lengthy trial that could have sent
him to prison for the rest of his life on federal sex-trafficking
charges.”
The use of the word, “apparently” is entirely out of place.
In the absence of any details relating to this death nothing
is, “apparent.”
The Times is simply conditioning the public to accept the suicide
narrative without an urgently required criminal investigation into
Epstein’s death which must be considered suspicious.
Furthermore, why does the Times state that Epstein was, “spared”
a trial?
Do the editors have information that supports their assumption
that Epstein did not want to have a trial?
What about the possibility that his death, “spares” other powerful
and influential people from having their connections to Epstein’s
proven and alleged criminal activities, either sexual or financial,
brought into the public eye by a lengthy legal proceeding.
“Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department’s
inspector general would open an investigation into the
circumstances of Mr. Epstein’s death in federal custody. While
Mr. Epstein will never face a legal reckoning, the investigations
into his crimes and those of others connected to him must continue.
His premature death shouldn’t stop law enforcement authorities
from finishing the job that they finally took up seriously years
after they should have.”
This is cynical claptrap: The Times knows full well that Epstein's
death without a trial or conviction (technically, Epstein dies an
innocent man, at least on the most recent charges), will effectively
end the investigation.
There is no longer the danger of a plea deal which Epstein's lawyers
would certainly have attempted to negotiate in return for his
testimony in trials of others whom he might have implicated in the
alleged sex-trafficking ring.
The Times does not raise these obvious issues, let alone demand
a criminal investigation and public hearings into the circumstances
of Epstein's highly suspicious death.
Any elementary review of the facts makes clear that Epstein’s
death must be treated as a criminal investigation.
Only 24 hours before his death, more than 2,000 pages of
documents were released by a Florida court in a civil suit
brought by one of the women who has charged Epstein with
enslaving her as a teenager as part of his systematic abuse
of young girls.
The woman filed a defamation suit against Epstein’s partner,
Ghislaine Maxwell, who allegedly had acted as a procuress,
recruiting teenage girls to service him.
Maxwell is herself a product of the super-rich milieu that
vomited up Epstein.
She is the daughter of the late British billionaire publisher
Robert Maxwell, also the target of numerous allegations of
fraud and other financial crimes.
In a grisly similarity, Robert Maxwell died under mysterious
circumstances in 1991, when he allegedly fell off his yacht,
the Lady Ghislaine (named after the daughter), and his naked
body was found floating in the Atlantic Ocean several days later.
The death was ruled accidental, although both suicide
and homicide were widely suggested at the time.
The documents released Thursday named a number of prominent
political and society figures as patrons of Epstein’s sex ring,
including two top Democrats, former Senate Majority Leader
George Mitchell and former governor and Clinton cabinet member
Bill Richardson, a one-time presidential candidate, as well as
Prince Andrew, second son of the Queen of England.
Whatever the truth of the allegations against these individuals,
there is no question that Epstein was for many years an integral
part of the financial and political elite in the United States,
hobnobbing with former president's like Bill Clinton.
The death of Epstein so obviously invites the assumption that this
is a case of removing an inconvenient personality, one who could
have implicated dozens if not hundreds of powerful people if he
were finally brought to trial, that the official claim of suicide
made possible by neglect on the part of low-ranking prison guards
has been greeted with disbelief.
Epstein’s death evokes recollections of Francis Ford Coppola’s,
"The Godfather."
The Epstein case, in all its criminal depravity, sheds light on
the state of American capitalist society.
The super-rich prey upon the poor and the vulnerable using
them as they wish.
They make use of their connections to cover up their crimes or
depending on the circumstances, arrange for the elimination of
those former friends and associates whose activities have become
an inconvenience or a danger.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52091.htm
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Dear Avrine
Dear Avrine
By The Last Boy In Line
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Dear Avrine:
Love Always 💕,
By The Last Boy In Line
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Dear Avrine:
Love Always 💕,
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Tainted Meat Market
Tainted Meat Market
By Paul Edwards
Information Clearing House
August 8, 2019
The Democratic Livestock Sales signal the start of our Presidential
election root canal with its pimps and whores money scramble,
evoking the pathos of a 4H sale of prize hogs and heifers.
4-H stock is pure blue ribbon, though which can’t be said of this sad
herd of pampered bipeds, bawling and bellowing through their own
live auction.
What if their number were an embarrassment of riches instead of
an embarrassment?
What if there were a basis in the derelict Democratic Party for
elevation of the most visionary, acute, and ethically, ecologically,
economically rigorous and penetrating minds America could offer?
A fantasy, of course.
The Parties--malformed twins joined at the wallet--are giant
filtering mechanisms to identify and exclude minds of integrity
and the morally courageous.
They are the Praetorian Guard of Capitalist Imperialism that has
abused the world with impunity for so long that it believes it’s
invincible, despite its serial humiliations.
That hubris--that vulgar, ugly arrogance--and the cruelty and folly
that define it, is a poison always fatal to empires.
The hardening of America’s aged political arteries has had the odd
result that neither political Snake Oil Wagon owns a massive
tranche of the people.
Odder yet, people get it.
Republicans, ever the liveried footmen of wealth, are just window
dummies, performing seals cued by the decrepit Kentucky swamp
turtle, shilling for the Capitalist Cancer’s owners, conning both
the prosperous, and gullible hicks, that theirs is the true gospel
of virtue.
Finally, with Main Street dissed and dismissed by Republicans, and
the hillbillies dumped on and disabused, they aren’t buying the old
catechism and instead are rallying to the Standard of No Standards,
the What Me Worry Banner of The Bozo, where the pustulent sores
of their closet racism, sexism and xenophobia can be flaunted
openly as MAGA badges.
Democrats?
A clique run by a brittle, doddering Crone and Geezer Politburo
mired in mendacity, paralyzed in a retro Cold War brainfreeze,
smelling of yesteryear, of betrayals and cowardice and moral
failure, like the cowboy in the song,“...always in search of,
and one step in back of, himself and his slow-moving dreams.”
In deep thrall to Big Money, they stand foursquare for the few who
own it all, and are horrified by rising demands of the young, sharp
and vital who might be theirs if they offered anything but visionless
stasis, baseless, perilous hatred of Russia, and endless money for
the War Machine that will destroy us.
And the answer..?
Don’t look for it, as Saint George of Carlin told us, “Ain’t gonna
be one.”
Vote, if you like; do a citizen’s paramount duty, if it you pleaseth.
But don’t hold your breath for, “hope and change.”
Don’t chant, “yes we can” again.
And never fool yourself that we did it before and we can do it
again, because we’ve never done this before.
Never.
Greenland lost 10 billion tons of ice yesterday.
We’re in uncharted waters.
Here be dragons.
By Paul Edwards
Information Clearing House
August 8, 2019
The Democratic Livestock Sales signal the start of our Presidential
election root canal with its pimps and whores money scramble,
evoking the pathos of a 4H sale of prize hogs and heifers.
4-H stock is pure blue ribbon, though which can’t be said of this sad
herd of pampered bipeds, bawling and bellowing through their own
live auction.
What if their number were an embarrassment of riches instead of
an embarrassment?
What if there were a basis in the derelict Democratic Party for
elevation of the most visionary, acute, and ethically, ecologically,
economically rigorous and penetrating minds America could offer?
A fantasy, of course.
The Parties--malformed twins joined at the wallet--are giant
filtering mechanisms to identify and exclude minds of integrity
and the morally courageous.
They are the Praetorian Guard of Capitalist Imperialism that has
abused the world with impunity for so long that it believes it’s
invincible, despite its serial humiliations.
That hubris--that vulgar, ugly arrogance--and the cruelty and folly
that define it, is a poison always fatal to empires.
The hardening of America’s aged political arteries has had the odd
result that neither political Snake Oil Wagon owns a massive
tranche of the people.
Odder yet, people get it.
Republicans, ever the liveried footmen of wealth, are just window
dummies, performing seals cued by the decrepit Kentucky swamp
turtle, shilling for the Capitalist Cancer’s owners, conning both
the prosperous, and gullible hicks, that theirs is the true gospel
of virtue.
Finally, with Main Street dissed and dismissed by Republicans, and
the hillbillies dumped on and disabused, they aren’t buying the old
catechism and instead are rallying to the Standard of No Standards,
the What Me Worry Banner of The Bozo, where the pustulent sores
of their closet racism, sexism and xenophobia can be flaunted
openly as MAGA badges.
Democrats?
A clique run by a brittle, doddering Crone and Geezer Politburo
mired in mendacity, paralyzed in a retro Cold War brainfreeze,
smelling of yesteryear, of betrayals and cowardice and moral
failure, like the cowboy in the song,“...always in search of,
and one step in back of, himself and his slow-moving dreams.”
In deep thrall to Big Money, they stand foursquare for the few who
own it all, and are horrified by rising demands of the young, sharp
and vital who might be theirs if they offered anything but visionless
stasis, baseless, perilous hatred of Russia, and endless money for
the War Machine that will destroy us.
And the answer..?
Don’t look for it, as Saint George of Carlin told us, “Ain’t gonna
be one.”
Vote, if you like; do a citizen’s paramount duty, if it you pleaseth.
But don’t hold your breath for, “hope and change.”
Don’t chant, “yes we can” again.
And never fool yourself that we did it before and we can do it
again, because we’ve never done this before.
Never.
Greenland lost 10 billion tons of ice yesterday.
We’re in uncharted waters.
Here be dragons.
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Dear White Supremacists
Dear White Supremacists
By The Last Boy In Line
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Dear White Supremacists:
Sincerely,
By The Last Boy In Line
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Dear White Supremacists:
Sincerely,
Monday, August 5, 2019
The Poverty Pimps’ Poem
The Poverty Pimps’ Poem
By Thomas Sowell
August 05, 2019
Let us celebrate the poor,
Let us hawk them door to door.
There’s a market for their pain,
Votes and glory and money to gain.
Let us celebrate the poor.
Their ills, their sins, their faulty diction,
Flavor our songs and spice our fiction.
Their hopes and struggles and agonies,
Get us grants and consulting fees.
Celebrate thugs and clowns,
Give their ignorance all renown.
Celebrate what holds them down,
In our academic gowns.
Let us celebrate the poor.
By Thomas Sowell
August 05, 2019
Let us celebrate the poor,
Let us hawk them door to door.
There’s a market for their pain,
Votes and glory and money to gain.
Let us celebrate the poor.
Their ills, their sins, their faulty diction,
Flavor our songs and spice our fiction.
Their hopes and struggles and agonies,
Get us grants and consulting fees.
Celebrate thugs and clowns,
Give their ignorance all renown.
Celebrate what holds them down,
In our academic gowns.
Let us celebrate the poor.
Friday, August 2, 2019
Dear Poverty Pimps
Dear Poverty Pimps
By The Last Boy In Line
Friday, August 2, 2019
Dear Poverty Pimps:
Sincerely,
By The Last Boy In Line
Friday, August 2, 2019
Dear Poverty Pimps:
Sincerely,