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<p><br>by Ann Hendon</p>



<p>WITH OVER 500 pages, more than twice the length of the first (1987) edition, the newly-revised and expanded second edition of <em>The Murder of Little Mary Phagan</em> is now available for purchase.</p>



<p>The author, Mary Phagan-Kean, states: &#8220;This book is the great work of my lifetime, a compelling personal journey, a tale of the shocking sex murder and abuse of my great-aunt, 13-year-old Mary Phagan &#8212; and it&#8217;s the story that the ADL and other shadowy forces <em>don&#8217;t</em> want you to read.&#8221;</p>



<p>This is the book that finally and definitively brings the truth about the murder of Mary Phagan by her killer, sweatshop boss and B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith official Leo Frank, to light. It&#8217;s available now! Click the link or scan the QR code to get your copy at a discount price today.</p>



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					<description><![CDATA[TODAY let us remember together the death of an innocent girl, little Mary Phagan, who met her death more than a century ago this week. Her rapist and her convicted murderer was her sweatshop boss, Leo Frank, president of the Atlanta B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith, a fraternal order then central to the Jewish establishment. Ever since the day of his arrest, that <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2025/04/the-112th-anniversary-of-mary-phagans-murder/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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<p>TODAY let us remember together the death of an innocent girl, little Mary Phagan, who met her death more than a century ago this week. Her rapist and her convicted murderer was her sweatshop boss, Leo Frank, president of the Atlanta B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith, a fraternal order then central to the Jewish establishment. Ever since the day of his arrest, that same Jewish establishment — working first at a local, then at a national, and then an international, level, worked to get her killer off the hook. There are parallels between sex-exploiter Leo Frank and those who sexually exploit young girls today — and use their ill-gotten billions to escape justice when caught.</p>


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<p>This week marks the 112th anniversary of the sex-murder of a 13-year-old Southern white girl, Mary Phagan, by Jewish B’nai B’rith official Leo Max Frank, on 26 April, 1913. To honor Mary Phagan’s life, and to ensure that the real identity of her killer is never forgotten, despite the massively well-funded campaign to paint him as a “victim of anti-Semitism,” we present a new edition of N. Joseph Potts’ article, originally published in 2021, entitled “Jewish Men Dying in Jail for Ravaging Young Girls: Epstein and Frank.”</p>



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<p class="has-text-align-center"><strong>Jewish Men Dying in Jail for Ravaging Young Girls:</strong><br><strong>Epstein and Frank</strong></p>


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<p>THE DEATH in jail of Jeffrey Epstein several years ago recalls a very famous death of another jailed Jewish man charged (and convicted and sentenced) of crimes against a 13-year-old girl in 1913. That case, which involved only one of many rumored similar victims, involved the lethal abuse of a factory worker named Mary Phagan by the manager of the factory, 29-year-old pillar of the Atlanta Jewish community Leo Frank, who, having grown up in Brooklyn, might have seemed rather a “damn Yankee” to at least some of his neighbors. Frank’s victim, unlike any of Epstein’s known victims, was&nbsp;<em>murdered</em>&nbsp;in addition to being raped, and, while Frank was tried and convicted and sentenced to death, his guilt continues to be vigorously contested more than a century later by the successors to the massive and distinctly Jewish campaign to win his exoneration during and after his trial. Indeed, this campaign – to exonerate a Jewish sex killer – has never stopped, even for a moment, for 112 years. Uncounted millions of dollars have been, and are still, being spent to convince you that Leo Frank didn’t do what he did.</p>



<p>The two cases, while they have many and important differences, both involve Jewish men accused of raping underage White girls as well as large and enduring campaigns of national stature to secure their acquittal. In Frank’s 1913 case, America’s (then-smaller, but already powerful) Jewish power structure (which even then included large advertising agencies, public relations firms, and newspapers large and small including the<em>&nbsp;New York Times</em>)<em>&nbsp;</em>mobilized to support his exoneration, stimulated by the notion, perhaps manufactured among the larger and more-influential Jews of the northern United States, that Frank was being discriminated against because he was a Jew in the South, whose Jewish population was then less influential than that of their co-religionists to the north (Frank was, in any case, a “child” of the North, having grown up in Brooklyn). The establishment of the Anti-Defamation League in September 1913 is widely credited to Jewish outrage at Frank’s arrest and conviction for the sex killing of Mary Phagan earlier that year.</p>



<p>Epstein’s case entailed a much-reduced “conviction” and a much-diluted “prison sentence” along with an outrageous “non-prosecution agreement” in what now might be called its first phase, one that might reflect his vastly greater influence (read: wealth) over the juridical apparatus, and no doubt because no one had been found murdered. Frank’s case had only one phase (including appeals that went all the way to the US Supreme Court), but of course did involve a murder, the evidence for which satisfied all the jurors on the case, but has never satisfied the jury of “public opinion” as mediated by the largely Jewish-run mass media.</p>


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<figure class="aligncenter"><a href="https://nationalvanguard.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/lasker-e3.jpg"><img decoding="async" src="https://nationalvanguard.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/lasker-e3-300x169.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-31542"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Albert Lasker, who ran the multimillion-dollar publicity campaign to paint Leo Frank as innocent, though even he had private suspicions about Frank. He was the most influential advertising man of his time, and was largely responsible for convincing American women that it was socially acceptable for them to smoke cigarettes.</figcaption></figure></div>


<p>Jewish moguls of Frank’s day such as Albert Lasker saw to it, through vigorous fund-raising campaigns conducted throughout Jewish communities in the North, that his defense was indeed the best that money could buy. Epstein had no need for any such circling of the financial wagons; he was a billionaire in his own right – Jewish legal luminaries such as Alan Dershowitz (who has also been named in lawsuits as one of the men allegedly receiving sexual “services” from Epstein’s stable of teenage sex slaves) figured large in the phalanx ultimately mustered to defend him in the Florida case that led to the “non-prosecution” deal and his sentence to 13 months’ part-time “confinement” in a minimum-security prison (which he was allowed to leave for many hours every day) near his palatial estate in Palm Beach.</p>



<p>Among those ensnared in Epstein’s fiendishly woven net was the United States Attorney for Southern Florida, Alexander Acosta, who arranged for Epstein’s sweetheart deal and convenient conviction on a lesser Florida state charge. Later appointed as Secretary of Labor by President Donald Trump, he subsequently resigned under fire after Epstein was again arrested in July 2019 by the United States Attorney for Southern New York, the locus of yet more of the crimes with which Epstein was charged – all of them involving underage teenage girls.</p>


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<p>Epstein’s guilt is not contested, neither as to the ages of his victims, nor even really as to their numbers (apparently something north of dozens). Neither Epstein nor any of his co-conspirators is implicated in any murder, though, unlike Leo Frank.</p>



<p>Frank’s guilt, at least of the murder of Mary Phagan, continues to be very much contested by, among others, the ubiquitous&nbsp;<a href="https://www.leofrank.org/dershowitz-intro-to-dinnersteins-leo-frank-case/">Alan Dershowitz</a>&nbsp;— yes, the very same Harvard Law School professor who has for many years now led the star-studded legal team defending Jeffrey Epstein, the 21st century’s answer to Leo Frank. Naturally, the metaphorical child of the Frank case, the Anti-Defamation League, continues to beat its very loud drum to advance the cause of Leo Frank’s innocence even to the point, in 1986, of securing a kind of posthumous pardon from the state of Georgia, though rather a weak one – basically an apology for having failed to protect its notorious inmate from lynching in 1915 &#8212; as it explicitly does <em>not</em> pardon him for the crime of murder.</p>



<p>Frank’s lynching after spending more than two years in prison was the first &#8212; and last — lynching of a Jew recorded in the annals of American history. American Jewry had, over the those two years, made the Frank case a&nbsp;<em>cause célèbre</em>, not least in the media, which, even at that early time, were controlled by Jewish interests not only through ownership, such as Adolph Ochs’s&nbsp;<em>New York Times</em>, but through the massive and pervasive influence of large-scale advertisers such as merchandiser Alfred Lasker, whose tentacles reached into the hearts of virtually every newspaper large and small in the United States. Lasker, having taken the cause very much to heart, became the unofficial leader of the campaign in Frank’s behalf, a campaign that may be said to have continued vigorously today — well into its second century.</p>



<p>The Epstein case, unlike the Frank case, did not become a “Jewish” issue despite the Jewishness of Epstein, Epstein’s “patron” Les Wexner, Dershowitz, and many of Epstein’s other defenders. Indeed, Epstein did not, as Frank did with some distinction, take part in Jewish religious or social affairs beyond hobnobbing with ex-prime ministers of Israel and the like. But the ethnic commonality among Epstein and other Jewish men such as Harvey Weinstein and Leon Wieseltier was the subject of a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.unz.com/gatzmon/predators-united/">recent article</a>&nbsp;by maverick Jew Gilad Atzmon, volubly countering this non-ethnic quality of&nbsp;<em>l’affaire</em>&nbsp;Epstein. However, the non-ethnicity of the matter has seemingly left the ADL out of this reprise of the case that brought it into existence.</p>



<p>Leo Frank was not as rich as Jeffrey Epstein was (although his wife did come from a wealthy family), so he could not, as Epstein easily did, fund his own high-powered team of defense lawyers. But Frank did indeed enjoy a powerful defense team easily comparable to the one marshaled around Epstein. It was funded by Alfred Lasker and a nationwide fundraising campaign conducted largely through Jewish auspices, such as synagogues and chapters of the B’nai B’rith — of whose Atlanta chapter Frank was president. Indeed, Frank’s team’s successors have managed within the past year to establish Georgia’s first&nbsp;“<a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/after-more-than-100-years-will-leo-frank-exonerated/NiklGil6M5KoQORH5lD9EN/">Conviction Integrity Unit</a>,” which has taken on the task of “revising” certain verdicts, such as that of convicted murderer Wayne Williams, as a kind of cover to prevent the truth – that its real purpose is to get Frank exonerated – from coming out. Unlike also-pardoned&nbsp;ADL&nbsp;benefactor Marc Rich, Leo Frank’s supporters haven’t made large donations to foundations of American presidents, but smaller donations to the foundations and political campaign funds of Georgia and Fulton County politicians may produce the desired effects quite handily. No relatives of Leo Frank are to be found among the public advocates of this campaign, nor any descendant of anyone who knew him. Relatives of Mary Phagan, however, <a href="https://www.littlemaryphagan.com/phagan-familys-statement-on-the-latest-attempt-to-exonerate-leo-frank/">oppose </a>the initiative – and were not consulted in any way about it.</p>



<p>It is widely assumed that Epstein was murdered in jail á la Lee Harvey Oswald, to keep him from dishing the dirt on many powerful people. Frank’s death at the hands of lynchers who extracted him from jail in August 1915 is claimed to have been motivated by “anti-Semitism,” as continually asserted this past century or so by the ADL, other Frank supporters, and their latter-day successors such as Alan Dershowitz.</p>



<p>But that idea also is contested by many researchers, including those as diverse as&nbsp;<em><a href="https://nationalvanguard.org/">National Vanguard</a></em>&nbsp;and the Historical Research Department of the Nation of Islam, publisher and author of record of&nbsp;<em><a href="https://www.leofrank.org/now-an-audio-book-the-leo-frank-case-the-lynching-of-a-guilty-man-part-1/">The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews Vol. 3, the Leo Frank Case</a></em><em>.</em>&nbsp;This work (<a href="https://www.leofrank.org/amazon-bans-the-secret-relationship-between-blacks-jews/">long since banned by amazon.com</a>) speculates (pp. 309-330) that the lynch mob might have been encouraged, or covertly orchestrated, by the same (Jewish) parties who had supported and defended Frank’s innocence in the two years preceding the lynching. Why would these same partisans now wish their beneficiary dead? Because he might confess, of course. He was alive, in keeping with their wishes, but still incarcerated, very much against their wishes. And while in prison he might be subject, á la Rudolf Höss of Holocaust fame, to coercion, or even inducements, to confess to the crimes of which he was accused, and perhaps also there were numerous Jewish connections to the illicit sex scene and the trafficking of young girls then called “White slavery” – connections that they much preferred to remain hidden, but that Frank might decide to talk about. This would certainly never do. In fact, Frank nearly died in his cell, as Epstein did in his, after a fellow inmate cut his jugular vein with a butcher knife about one month after his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Perhaps the would-be murderer was committing a&nbsp;<em>din rodef&nbsp;</em>murder – in the Talmud, the killing of someone who is about to inform on a Jew or group of Jews is required – on behalf of Jewish paymasters, not unlike those said to have commissioned Jeffrey Epstein’s death.</p>


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<p>Two months elapsed between Governor Slaton’s commutation of Frank’s sentence and the lynchers&#8217; (they called themselves the Vigilance Committee, and were largely composed of prominent businessmen and political and judicial leaders from the Marietta area) carefully arranged transits by car (in 1913! — these were no poor people) of around 150 miles over unpaved roads from Marietta to Milledgeville, where they picked up their hapless victim, and then back again to Marietta, chosen because it was the home town of poor Mary Phagan. None of the participants in the lynching (most well-known and some highly placed) was even charged with the murder of Frank, much less prosecuted.</p>



<p>One wonders if, a hundred or so years from now, the ADL will secure the exoneration of Jeffrey Epstein.</p>



<p>Sure, they&#8217;ll claim, as soon as they think it&#8217;s safe &#8212; those young girls at Epstein&#8217;s camera-rigged place were all party-crashing gold-diggers. Epstein just got the rap because he was Jewish. That’s right &#8212; just because he was a Jew. A case of obvious anti-Semitism!</p>



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<p>So, this week, the 108th anniversary of Mary Phagan’s murder, let us remember her, honor her, and&nbsp;<em>never forget</em>&nbsp;the inveterate, malicious liars who are&nbsp;<em>always</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>ever&nbsp;</em>devoted to protecting Jewish killers and Jewish rapists – and even elevating them to the status of “victim of anti-Semitism” – and thereby enabling the Harvey Weinsteins, the Woody Allens, the Allen Ginsbergs, the Leo Franks, and the Jeffrey Epsteins of this world.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction to Mary Phagan-Kean&#8217;s Insights into the Murder of Her Great Aunt HERE ARE SOME of the key points offered by Mary Phagan-Kean in her latest interview with social media activist Ryan Dawson. (video above) Mary Phagan-Kean&#8217;s journey into the dark and complex narrative surrounding the murder of her great aunt, Mary Phagan, began unexpectedly. Her father first shared the <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2025/04/mary-phagan-kean-interview-blitz-continues-ryan-dawson/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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<p>HERE ARE SOME of the key points offered by Mary Phagan-Kean in her latest interview with social media activist Ryan Dawson. (video above)</p>



<p>Mary Phagan-Kean&#8217;s journey into the dark and complex narrative surrounding the murder of her great aunt, Mary Phagan, began unexpectedly. Her father first shared the story after her name was recognized by a teacher, sparking a lifelong quest for truth and justice. The tale, as recounted by her father, painted a grim picture of Leo Frank, the man convicted of Mary Phagan&#8217;s murder. According to testimony, Frank was a sexual pervert who molested numerous young girls and even boys, earning him the moniker &#8220;the B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith pedophile&#8221; &#8212; a reference to the fact that he was president of the Atlanta chapter of the Jewish fraternal order B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith, the organization which gave birth to the powerful ADL, or &#8220;Anti-Defamation League.&#8221; Frank was even re-elected president of the group after his conviction for murdering little Mary.</p>



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<p>The Vigilance Committee, which consisted of leading community leaders and which sought &#8220;Southern justice&#8221; after a corrupt governor (who was a partner in the law firm that defended Frank) commuted Frank&#8217;s death sentence, played a pivotal role in the case by executing him themselves after, as they saw it, outside influencers had illegally prevented his lawful hanging. (The <em>New York Times</em>-invented &#8220;Knights of Mary Phagan&#8221; never existed. That moniker was likely invented to link the Vigilance Committee to similar-sounding &#8220;Knights&#8221; factions of the Ku Klux Klan, in order to smear the Committee.) </p>



<p>The lynching of Frank was the first done by automobile, quite a feat considering the limited ownership of automobiles in Marietta, Georgia, in 1915 &#8212; further proving that prominent citizens, who were outraged by Governor Slaton&#8217;s involvement in the law firm that defended Frank, and his commutation of his sentence, were involved, and not a &#8220;mob.&#8221;</p>



<p>The Anti-Defamation League, an organization with a vested interest in the outcome, has been relentless in its efforts to secure a full pardon for Frank for decades. Their tactics, however, have been marred by deception and misinformation, leading to numerous hoaxes, including false claims about a pardon (the existing &#8220;pardon&#8221; does not address his guilt at all).</p>



<p>Mary Phagan-Kean&#8217;s father never mentioned Frank&#8217;s Jewishness but emphasized his perverse behavior. Her grandfather, Mary Phagan&#8217;s brother, was deeply emotionally affected by the case, becoming distraught when asked about it, particularly noting the resemblance between Mary Phagan-Kean and little Mary.</p>



<p>The narrative surrounding the case is fraught with controversy. Jews have even attempted to portray Mary Phagan as a seducer, a claim that Mary Phagan-Kean vehemently rejects. </p>



<p>There has been documented collusion between Jewish groups and officials to alter the wording on Mary&#8217;s commemorative plaque, with the altered plaque suggesting that Frank was exonerated for the murder — which he was not. This alteration occurred under the cover of night and was set up during secret meetings from which the Phagan family &#8212; and the public &#8212; were excluded, further obscuring the truth.</p>



<p>Rabbi Steven Lebow, a prominent figure in the area Jewish community, demanded that Mary&#8217;s marker be changed because it &#8220;offended&#8221; the Jewish community to tell the truth about the non-pardon. This defense of a convicted child rapist and murderer is a strange hill for Jewish groups to die on.</p>



<p>During the 1960s, when Jewish authors Leonard Dinnerstein and Harry Golden were writing their books on the case, the trial transcript mysteriously disappeared, making it unavailable for public scrutiny.</p>



<p>The best outcome of the efforts of both sides in this case, Mrs. Phagan-Kean says, has been the creation of a team to digitize and make all relevant documents on the case available and searchable online. And the best way to study the case, she avers, is to examine these newspaper articles in conjunction with the Brief of Evidence (all now available on <a href="http://leofrank.info">leofrank.info</a> and <a href="http://leofrank.org">leofrank.org</a>). Contrary to popular belief, the newspapers were pro-Frank and had Jewish editors, contradicting the notion of an anti-Frank, anti-Jewish atmosphere. Nevertheless, the firsthand reports of the trial at that time were mostly honest and paint a <em>very</em> different picture from that of the &#8220;Leo Frank is an innocent victim of anti-Semitism&#8221; narrative being pushed today. (One can learn, for example, that the grand jury that indicted Frank included four Jews out of 21 members, and that all voted to charge Frank with the murder.)</p>



<p>The Jewish community&#8217;s claims that Frank did not know Mary Phagan are untenable. Frank walked past her daily for a year, handled her pay packets weekly, and even directed police to investigate James Gannt, claiming he was &#8220;close to&#8221; Mary. These actions suggest a familiarity that contradicts his claim of ignorance.</p>



<p>The Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s never-ending defense of Frank has inadvertently contributed to the cause they claim to oppose: anti-Semitism.</p>



<p>Mary Phagan was brutally raped, as evidenced by the autopsy report, which, though difficult to read, showed no markings on her body except those of strangulation. There was blood in her panties, and family proof confirmed she was not on her menstrual cycle. ADL-linked author Steven Oney referred to Mary as a &#8220;voluptuous woman,&#8221; a claim that Parade magazine attempted to exploit this by implying she was &#8220;flirting&#8221; before her death, a particularly odious insinuation.</p>



<p>A 1980s miniseries, inspired by Harry Golden&#8217;s book and dubious material from Alonzo Mann, was produced without consultation with Mary Phagan&#8217;s family. This miniseries further muddied the waters of the case.</p>



<p>In a more recent development, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, under pressure from Rabbi Lebow and the Jewish power structure, established a &#8220;Conviction Integrity Unit&#8221; in Atlanta. This unit, ostensibly to exonerate falsely convicted individuals, including Blacks, was really created explicitly to push for the exoneration of Frank. They have even floated the idea of a new trial for Frank, despite the extreme improbability of a proper prosecution more than a century later.</p>



<p>Contrary to ADL claims, the &#8220;mass exodus&#8221; of Jews from the area after the Frank case never occurred. This is one of the many hoaxes that will be debunked in the forthcoming new edition of Mrs. Phagan-Kean&#8217;s book, <em>The Murder of Little Mary Phagan</em>.</p>



<p>Mary Phagan-Kean&#8217;s father&#8217;s enduring belief was that &#8220;the truth will always win,&#8221; a sentiment that continues to guide her quest for justice.</p>



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					<description><![CDATA[In this year of 2024, on the 111th anniversary of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan by Jewish sex killer Leo Frank, we present this article, based on a piece from the alternative media. by K.A. Strom and Valdis Bell I BELIEVE IT was the great writer Daniel Concannon who first said that in America, no matter who you vote <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2024/04/no-matter-who-you-vote-for-you-get-jonathan-greenblatt-mary-phagan-edition/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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<p><em>In this year of 2024, on the 111th anniversary of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan by Jewish sex killer Leo Frank, we present this article, based on a piece from the alternative media.</em></p>



<p>by K.A. Strom and Valdis Bell</p>



<p>I BELIEVE IT was the great writer <a href="https://gab.com/KeepNHGranite">Daniel Concannon</a> who first said that in America, no matter who you vote for you always get Jonathan Greenblatt.</p>



<p>Greenblatt looks like a particularly filthy gunsel from a 1940s gangster movie. He makes Peter Lorre look handsome. He&#8217;s the head of the Jewish <a href="https://nationalvanguard.org/?s=ADL">Anti-Defamation League</a> (or ADL), which is perhaps the foremost anti-Gentile hate operation in America today. It is the ADL who decides what you get to hear or see in the media, and what you are allowed to say in public and on social media. It would be better named the Defamation League, as one of their main activities is defaming and deplatforming and smearing and financially and personally ruining anyone who exposes Jewish crimes or the genocidal nature of the Jewish agenda.</p>



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<p>As proof that the ADL gets what it wants, and what it wants is to silence anyone who inhibits the Jewish agenda of a brown America, look at what happened to populist Tucker Carlson last year. The most highly-rated talk show host on the dinosaur media, so well-liked that a recent poll puts his popularity higher than that of the entire Fox News Network where he appeared, Carlson was fired by mega-Zionist and possibly crypto- or part-Jew Rupert Murdoch without reason being given. Jonathan Greenblatt has been pushing for Carlson to be fired for at least two years. Take a look at this softball CNN interview with Greenblatt from 12 April 2021. CNN is owned and run by Jews.</p>



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<p>Greenblatt gets all worked up emotionally when he tells Brian Stelter, &#8220;Tucker Carlson has got to go!&#8221; calling for him to be deplatformed, and literally a few seconds later screeches &#8220;This is not cancel culture.&#8221; Right. Greenblatt and the ADL goddamned <em>invented</em> cancel culture, for the gods&#8217; sake. It&#8217;s the very basis of their existence. Apparently Tucker had mentioned the increasingly obvious fact that there a media agenda to replace the heritage population of the US and Europe and other Western nations. (It&#8217;s okay for the controlled media to mention this, they often do, so long as they frame it as a good and inevitable thing. But Tucker hadn&#8217;t made the obligatory ritual incantations, and that might stir up the peasants and get them thinking maybe, just maybe, someone is trying to hurt them &#8212; something that Greenblatt and his ilk cannot tolerate.)</p>



<p>Now, I&#8217;m not a hod carrier for Tucker Carlson. He articulates many of the problems we face well. He informs us about <em>a few parts</em> of the media&#8217;s agenda that the rest of the Jewish-controlled media try to downplay or keep hidden. But, like Lucy Van Pelt and her football with Charlie Brown, at the last moment he always pulls away and leaves us without knowing <em>who</em> is behind these things and <em>why</em> they do what they do. In some cases he out-and-out misdirects our people into thinking that Democrats are the real problem &#8212; not Jewish power &#8212; and that Republicans, some of them anyway, are the real solution. He scrupulously and cleverly and rather disgustingly dances around the issue of Jewish/Zionist power. Sometimes he tells us that it&#8217;s some shadowy &#8220;woke&#8221; conspiracy or airheaded &#8220;groupthink&#8221; trendiness that&#8217;s &#8220;behind it all.&#8221; (Truth be told, we as people <em>need</em> &#8220;groupthink.&#8221; All peoples need groupthink &#8212; that is, thinking of themselves <em>as a group</em> and committing themselves to their group&#8217;s survival &#8212; in order to even exist at all. Tucker Carlson says that&#8217;s a bad thing, promoting some vaguely libertarian strain of populism &#8212; or maybe it&#8217;s a populist strain of libertarianism; it doesn&#8217;t really matter, either one is death for us. So I am not a big fan of Tucker Carlson.</p>



<p>But Carlson went too far for Jonathan Greenblatt and the ADL. And he was hugely popular. So he had to go. And, going against &#8212; insanely against, I might add &#8212; their own economic interests, the Murdochs fired him. Pleasing Jews is more important, apparently, than billions in revenue.</p>



<p>And it is this same Greenblatt and same ADL that is allowed to give &#8220;training courses&#8221; to police officers nationwide, telling the officers just who it is who is &#8220;dangerous&#8221; and who should get especially intense law enforcement scrutiny. It is this same ADL that meets with social media executives &#8212; including Elon Musk &#8212; and tells them who it is who should have a voice and who should be stifled or silenced. It is this same ADL that tells our national and state and local legislators what laws should be passed and what speech should be banned.</p>



<p>Speaking of pleasing Jews, witness the shocking behavior of Florida governor Ron DeSantis. For the second time in history &#8212; and DeSantis did it the first time, too &#8212; an American governor has signed a bill into law while in a foreign country. It was a bill supported by the ADL and specifically crafted to make distribution of fliers criticizing Jews into a felony. And guess which country DeSantis was in when he signed it? If you guessed Israel, you&#8217;re right. DeSantis, who, like Tucker Carlson, makes a lot of noise in apparent opposition to certain of the most outrageous parts of the Jewish agenda, knows who he has to please. Don&#8217;t fool yourself; DeSantis still has ambitions to be a major elite political player. His signing of this flagrantly immoral and illegal restriction on our speech while in Israel is deeply significant: a symbolic bowing to his masters, in a place sacred to his masters, signaling he wants their approval for a &#8220;move up&#8221; in status, something that only they really decide.</p>



<p>I&#8217;ll embed the tweet from neocon Jew Rep. Andy Fine, who said: &#8220;made a secret trip to JERUSALEM (!!!) to deliver @GovRonDeSantis HB 269, the strongest antisemitism bill in the United States. To Florida&#8217;s Nazi thugs, I have news: attack Jews on their property and you&#8217;re going to prison. Never again means never again.&#8221; All of this surmounts a picture of DeSantis signing the sacred bill, with two smirking Jews looking on. Do I have to tell you that the bill has nothing to do with &#8220;attacking&#8221; Jews, but only with distributing literature that criticizes them or exposes their activities?</p>


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<p>Some of you may be wondering what all this has to do with Mary Phagan. And who is she, anyway? Well, you need to understand the <a href="https://nationalvanguard.org/?s=%22mary+phagan%22">murder of Mary Phagan</a> in order to understand how we got from the Land of the Free to the point where a greasy, sleazy item like Greenblatt gets to decide what our laws should be and what you can say without getting fired or going to prison.</p>



<p>It all began when 19th-century Americans, woefully unaware of reality when it came to Jews, mistakenly thought that Jews were just another kind of European and let them stream into our country in huge numbers. Jews, knowing they were a separate race and with fanatical racial loyalty, immediately began to organize and acquire power for themselves, especially power over the press and eventually all mass media as they emerged.</p>



<p>Initially, Jews in the southern US adapted themselves to the reality of Jim Crow and positioned themselves publicly as &#8220;White&#8221; and supportive of White institutions.</p>



<p>But all that changed at high noon on 26 April, 1913, in Atlanta, Georgia.</p>



<p>It happened on the second floor of the National Pencil Company building on Forsyth Street. It was a sweatshop where child laborers, mostly White girls, spent their youth making pencils for the company&#8217;s Jewish owners for 60 hours a week and more, earning only pennies an hour.</p>



<p>13-year-old Mary Phagan was one such girl. She came that day to the office to collect her pathetically meager $1.20 pay. There she met the sweatshop&#8217;s Jewish boss and stockholder, Leo Frank, in his office on the second floor. Leo Frank was also the president of the Atlanta chapter of the B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith, a Jewish organization that would spawn the ADL later that same year.</p>



<p>It was a holiday and no one else was on that entire floor. Frank paid her, and then took her into the factory&#8217;s &#8220;metal room,&#8221; in the rear part of the second floor, as far as possible from the stairway and elevator, and from prying eyes and ears, on the pretext of checking to see if the metal supplies she needed for her work had come in. He closed the doors behind them as they walked.</p>



<p>Near the rear wall, standing in front of a metal lathe next to the toilet entrance, Leo Frank did to Mary Phagan what he, according to numerous witnesses, had often done with his teenage girl employees: He attempted to take sexual liberties with her. She resisted. Frank knocked her down forcibly, hitting her in the eye and striking her head against the unyielding metal lathe, opening a bloody gash that he may or may not have seen at first. While she was stunned, he pulled her garments up above her waist and raped her right on the red-stained floor in front of the toilet, lying in her own flowing blood.</p>



<p>When he was &#8220;done,&#8221; seeing the blood and doubtlessly realizing his predicament should Mary tell others of his actions, he found a piece of the twine used to pack supplies in his factory, wound it tightly around Mary&#8217;s neck, and strangled her to death. He then tore off a piece of her lace underwear, placed it around her neck as if it were a lace necklet and so it covered the marks of the strangling.</p>



<p>He then summoned the factory&#8217;s Black sweeper, Jim Conley, to enlist his aid in the moving and, he hoped, the burning of Mary Phagan&#8217;s body. Conley knew that Frank liked to &#8220;chat&#8221; in private with the prettier of his young White employees, as he had kept watch for Frank on several occasions while such &#8220;chatting&#8221; took place. And, in fact, he was keeping watch for him near the factory&#8217;s first-floor entrance at that very moment. Frank told Conley that he had struck the girl and accidentally killed her. The lace &#8220;necklet&#8221; might have served to conceal the strangling &#8212; at least conceal it from Conley. It could never fool police investigators. But, if Conley had burned the body for Frank as planned (as it turned out, he never did), there might never be any police investigators. Conley and Frank moved Mary&#8217;s body to the basement.</p>



<p>Frank and his legal team tried to frame the Black night watchman, Newt Lee, for the murder. Among other things, they forged his time card, and planted a fake bloody shirt at his residence. When that framing attempt failed, they tried to frame Jim Conley &#8212; and, 111 years later, they&#8217;re still trying to frame him. They planted a fake &#8220;bloody club&#8221; and pay envelope near the place where Conley kept watch for Frank that day. But that fake was exposed, too. The true evidence kept building up, and the proof was overwhelming that Frank was the killer. He was convicted and sentenced to death.</p>



<p>But Frank had something that ordinary defendants, Black or White, never have. He was not an &#8220;ordinary citizen.&#8221; He was a Jew, a member of the supposedly &#8220;chosen people.&#8221; He was also an actual official of the Jewish power structure &#8212; the head of Atlanta&#8217;s division of the B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith. He had the already massive power, money, media ownership, and political influence of the organized Jewish community nationwide behind him. They refused to let the verdict stand. They funded a multimillion-dollar legal and PR campaign to get him a new trial, to make millions of gullible people believe he was innocent and a saintlike &#8220;victim of anti-Semitism,&#8221; and to get his sentence commuted. They were only partially successful. All his numerous and expensive appeals, which went all the way up to the US Supreme Court, failed. And the death sentence was carried out by an outraged citizenry after a corrupt governor commuted it. The Jews did fool a great number of Americans about Frank, however.</p>



<p>And the Frank case galvanized Jews to see heritage Americans as their enemies. The Leo Frank case was not only the first time the Jewish power structure flexed its muscles so openly to change public opinion and to get what it wanted from the political and legal systems. <em>It was also when they decided that their alliance with White people was at an end.</em> From that day forward, and intensifying greatly after World War 2, the Jews have been ramping up a (slighty) covert war on White people at the very same time that they made overt war on Arabs and others in the Middle East.</p>



<p>Everything else flows from that day. What that Jew pervert did to Mary Phagan on the metal room floor that day 111 years ago this week led directly to Jonathan Greenblatt telling you what you can and cannot say today &#8212; led directly, in fact, to the founding of the ADL just a few months after Mary Phagan breathed her last.</p>



<p>And now, as Paul Harvey used to say, you know the rest of the story.</p>



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<p>Source: based on an article at <em><a href="http://nationalvanguard.org">National Vanguard</a></em></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[We at the Mercury do not endorse every point made by the author here, but we do think his Menckenesque demolition of one of the most useless and offensive conservative types is quite brilliant. by Kevin Alfred Strom DURING HIS ADMINISTRATION, Donald Trump announced that the US was going to recognize the disputed city of Jerusalem as the capital of <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2022/09/boomer-conservatives-are-always-wrong/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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<p><em>We at the </em>Mercury<em> do not endorse every point made by the author here, but we do think his Menckenesque demolition of one of the most useless and offensive conservative types is quite brilliant.</em></p>



<p>by Kevin Alfred Strom</p>



<p>DURING HIS ADMINISTRATION, Donald Trump announced that the US was going to recognize the disputed city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and move the US embassy there from Tel Aviv &#8212; exactly what the more extreme sorts of Zionist Jews and nutcase boomer conservatives have been demanding for decades. Never mind that historically, Jerusalem has not been populated mainly by Jews, was not founded by Jews, and was ruled by Jews only for a very tiny fraction of the time since its founding.</p>


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<p>Neither the Jews nor the boomer conservatives &#8212; most of them Zionist Christians &#8212; care about those facts. The Jews do care about some things that are actually real, though &#8212; they care about increasing the territory and power of their racial supremacist state, Israel.</p>



<p>The boomer conservatives, in contrast, care about totally illusory things, things that are&nbsp;<em>not</em> real. They care about &#8220;fulfilling Bible prophecy&#8221; &#8212; about &#8220;God blessing those that bless Israel&#8221; &#8212; and they care about submitting themselves totally &#8212; pledging the lives of their children and a huge portion of their energy and wealth &#8212; to the self-styled &#8220;holy,&#8221; &#8220;godlike,&#8221; and &#8220;chosen&#8221; people, the Jews. Since Trump&#8217;s announcement about Jerusalem, they have been going into almost ecstatic paroxysms of joy, literally trembling with anticipation at the prospect of the &#8220;re-establishment&#8221; of a Jewish kingdom and temple (that probably never existed in the first place).</p>


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<figure class="aligncenter size-large"><a href="https://theamericanmercury.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/eagle_wings.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1000" height="563" src="https://theamericanmercury.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/eagle_wings-1000x563.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-3338" srcset="https://theamericanmercury.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/eagle_wings-1000x563.jpg 1000w, https://theamericanmercury.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/eagle_wings-450x253.jpg 450w, https://theamericanmercury.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/eagle_wings-768x432.jpg 768w, https://theamericanmercury.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/eagle_wings.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Weird montage of Jesus, Trump, bald eagles, and American military hardware is typical of boomer conservative iconography, which also sometimes includes bikini-clad girls holding firearms, Bibles floating in the sky next to copies of the US Constitution, American and Israeli flags, and related symbology — all invariably presented with zero subtlety and execrable taste. This example is from YouTuber “Matthew7-24MonteCarlo24-7,” who claims to be able to read “secret Bible codes” proving that Trump (or “Trumpet,” as he calls him) has come to fulfill ancient Hebrew prophecies. Not all boomer conservatives are this crazy, but it is embarrassing that they are White.</figcaption></figure></div>


<p>Boomer conservatives are not mentally healthy. They have wandered off into a psychological/ideological space that is so dysfunctional, so contrary to their own best interests, and so utterly disconnected from reality that they have become a danger to themselves and to all the rest of us who have somehow escaped the mind-virus that has them in its grip. They are so far off the tracks that I believe it is safe to say that they are wrong about everything &#8212; hence the title I gave to this program: &#8220;Boomer Conservatives Are Always Wrong.&#8221;</p>



<p>Some might accuse me of exaggerating. Surely boomer conservatives are right about a few things, they might say &#8212; and surely they&#8217;re not all as wacky as the extreme Christian Zionists I use as an example. They might also add that some boomer conservatives are just mildly Zionist because that&#8217;s what their churches have become in the last several decades, but they&#8217;re basically sound otherwise. Let&#8217;s examine these claims more closely.</p>



<p>First, let&#8217;s define terms here. The &#8220;boomers&#8221; to which I&#8217;m referring are an American phenomenon. The term is short for &#8220;baby boomers,&#8221; broadly defined as that generation born in the years after World War 2, when returning veterans were making up for lost time, starting families, and, buoyed by economically good times and a still basically intact White America, increasing the birthrate tremendously &#8212; hence the word &#8220;boom.&#8221; If you were born between 1945 and 1964, you&#8217;re a boomer. There&#8217;s some overlap, and quite a few people slightly outside that range are culturally boomers too.</p>



<p>The boomer cycle is drawing to a close. The last boomers are retiring, for the most part, or will be soon. Their legacy is nearly complete. And their legacy is this: They allowed, or in some cases caused, America to go from an almost entirely White &#8212; and consciously White &#8212; nation, still imbued with the stern virtues of our ancestors, the pioneer heritage of which was still remembered and revered; to a degenerate cesspool where nearly every sex perversion is regarded as a &#8220;sacred right&#8221; while healthy White children are allowed to be slaughtered in the womb and disposed of with no more ceremony than that accorded to a dead fly &#8212; where Third World invaders and rapists and criminals are given more rights than the descendants of the founders (and are effectively our masters in that we must work for them or be imprisoned), and where even the slightest assertion of White identity is regarded as the vilest crime, worthy of severe punishment, banishment, public execration, and psychological torture.</p>



<p>I shall not deal here with boomer liberals, though they do deserve a program to themselves, except to note that they firmly and enthusiastically bought into the dope-smoking, libertine, and neo-Marxist &#8220;counterculture&#8221; offered to them by the Jews. Today I am speaking of the boomer&nbsp;<em>conservatives</em>, who rejected &#8212; or who accepted and then later rejected &#8212; that counterculture.</p>



<p>I was born in 1956 so that makes me a boomer, too. But don&#8217;t you call me a boomer liberal &#8212; and don&#8217;t you <em>ever dare</em> call me a boomer conservative. When I see boomer conservative messages and memes &#8212; pictures of Donald Trump superimposed on flying eagles, 50-star flags, Israeli flags, American military hardware, bikini babes with machine guns, and the Constitution and the Bible floating in the clouds next to Jesus, I want to either laugh out loud &#8212; or cry at the degradation of my people. Literally nothing that these people believe in is worthy, good, or true.</p>



<p>Boomers were the first generation raised on Jewish television. Their parents, the so-called &#8220;Greatest Generation,&#8221; were at fault too &#8212; they were so naïve they had bought the transparent propaganda and the arranged incidents that induced them to slaughter their kin in Europe, and then were so lazy they let their children sit down in front of the lie-box for hours upon hours every week, or every day, and let Goldenson and Paley and Sarnoff be their babysitters and storytellers.</p>



<p>Boomers were inculcated from the moment of their birth with the myths that justified the mass fratricidal murder-frenzy of World War 2, the war that most of their fathers or uncles fought in. It was indoctrination on almost a religious scale, and very few have been able to break free of the lies: The lie that the &#8220;world needed to be saved&#8221; from Germany, whose leader Adolf Hitler &#8220;wanted to conquer the world&#8221; and was trying to exterminate the especially noble and of course totally innocent Jews, and would soon be coming for us; the lie that America had always stood for the opposite of everything that National Socialist Germany stood for (nearly an inversion of the truth); and the lie that any remnants of the principles of racial integrity left in America &#8212; like anti-miscegenation statutes, and borders, and immigration laws that favored Whites &#8212; were Hitler-like &#8220;evils&#8221; that needed to be expunged from our nation.</p>



<p>Boomers were sold on the idea that responsibility for the future of their race was &#8220;square,&#8221; &#8220;oppressive,&#8221; &#8220;wrong,&#8221; and, worst of all, passé. They were taught that racial conflicts should always be viewed in a &#8220;fairness&#8221; frame (is it&nbsp;<em>fair</em> to keep 4 billion non-Whites out of our country?) instead of Nature&#8217;s real frame of reference &#8212; that of <em>survival</em>. (Does allowing hundreds of millions or billions of non-Whites to cross our borders with impunity help or hinder our survival as a race?)</p>



<p>When many of the boomers later rejected the hippie counterculture, and developed a nostalgic yearning to return to the traditions and sense of community of the America they grew up in, they still retained this utterly false moral framework. This has made them totally ineffective at fighting the degeneracy they claim to oppose.</p>



<p>They are incapable of defining the problem (because &#8220;racism is wrong&#8221; it can&#8217;t be a racial/biological problem, they think); they are &#8220;morally&#8221; forbidden to conceptualize what a healthy future would be like (racial-nationalism, the only possible way to ensure a future for our children, is the very thing they have been taught is &#8220;the very definition of evil&#8221;); and they are fanatically opposed to naming the real enemy. (Because that would entail &#8220;racism&#8221; and the &#8220;ultimate sin&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;anti-Semitism.&#8221;) The very best they can ever do is complain that &#8220;it sure was better when I was young&#8221; while piously denying the <em>reasons why</em> it was better. Such people <em>cannot</em> win, <em>ever</em> &#8212; except in a fantasy world inside their fevered, crippled brains.</p>



<p>Do I exaggerate? Judge for yourself if this man&#8217;s brain is fevered and crippled. Here is an excerpt from the man whose stereotypical catering-to-boomer-conservatives graphic graces the top of the text version of this broadcast. He calls himself&nbsp;&#8220;Matthew7-24MonteCarlo24-7&#8221; on YouTube and he does claim to be an opponent of the New World Order (NWO) &#8212; as Dr. Pierce, the founder of the National Alliance also was. But there the similarity ends. Matthew, or whatever his name is, thinks Donald Trump, with Yahweh&#8217;s help as revealed by &#8220;secret Bible codes,&#8221; is the answer:</p>



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<p>The American eagle is a force that will not be defeated! Donald Trump has just taken back those fighting eagles from the elite&#8217;s grasp the, NWO! Both America and Israel are protected by the F-15 Eagles wings! God took back these Awesome winged weapons from the NWO by putting his man Donald J Trump into Power and Draining The Swamp! God is not messing around any longer! Judgment of the wicked has began, weather they realize it yet or not does not matter! God&#8217;s Trumpet will not be stopped! Nor will his Christian Army of people!! We will became one mind, one party with the one voice of Yeshua! Amen!</p>
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<p>There&#8217;s a man who can get plenty of likes on YouTube, I suppose, but who is for all practical purposes talking only to the Extreme Special Needs faction of boomer conservatives and is therefore a total nullity at best and at worst a confusion-sowing asset of those he claims to oppose. I&#8217;ll put my money on his having a fevered, crippled brain &#8212; though there is the remote possibility that his channel might be an intelligence operation or an amazingly well-done parody account.</p>



<p>Boomer conservatives are very bad at noticing things, preferring to live in a dream world of the pleasant fantasies they have been sold by the mass media, their preachers, and lying politicians. They failed to notice when their churches were converted into cheering sections for Israel, for example. They failed to notice that the entire banking system &#8212; not just the Fed, which some of them do view as &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221; &#8212; has been stealing a huge portion of their wealth for longer than they&#8217;ve been alive.</p>



<p>Boomer conservatives have near zero understanding of geopolitics, and think it&#8217;s totally normal for America to be Israel&#8217;s cannon fodder in Middle Eastern wars that never end, totally normal for the US to have a military budget nearly as large as that of the rest of the world combined, and totally normal to send their kids to die in order to impose debt-slavery and Jewish oligarchy on other countries under the guise of &#8220;democracy.&#8221;</p>



<p>Boomer conservatives, though they claim to abjure &#8220;socialism,&#8221; engage in near-worship of the socialist enterprise called the US military, and judge a president as &#8220;good&#8221; if he is &#8220;strong,&#8221; and &#8220;tough&#8221; and kills plenty of people &#8212; never mind <em>who</em> those people are and if they ever were a threat to our nation or not; what really matters to boomer conservatives is &#8220;not being weak&#8221; &#8212; and &#8220;being weak&#8221; is defined as failing to bomb Tehran or Damascus whenever the chosen overlords tell us it&#8217;s time to step lively. Boomer conservatives truly do have an understanding of the world only slightly more detailed and nuanced than that of a dog.</p>



<p>Boomer conservatives love preening themselves on how edgily &#8220;right wing&#8221; and &#8220;conservative&#8221; they are, but at the same time would rather have a head-ectomy than be thought of as &#8220;racist.&#8221; They are constantly &#8212; and I mean constantly &#8212; virtue-signaling about how &#8220;non-racist&#8221; they are. One such boomer conservative, whose name on Twitter looks like a typo, &#8220;Immortan Deplorable,&#8221; tweeted recently:</p>



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<p>My lib ex-girlfriend dumped me because I like Trump. A lib sneered she was smart to dump me. Yup. I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;s happy with her cats, wine and Prozac. Meanwhile, I&#8217;m stuck with a drop-dead gorgeous Chinese doctor who is also a chef and nymphomaniac. Woe is me.</p>
</blockquote>



<p>Wow. It&#8217;s all there in one brief tweet: He hates &#8220;libs&#8221;; he loves Trump; he&#8217;s so &#8220;manly&#8221; and getting so much &#8220;action&#8221; he has to brag about it on social media; and he&#8217;s so &#8220;anti-racist&#8221; that he replaced his former White girlfriend, who he pointedly insults, with a rich, supposedly &#8220;nymphomaniac,&#8221; Asian. Really believable, pal. And how &#8220;good&#8221; you are &#8212; not. Virtue signaling at its most pathetic.</p>



<p>I recently heard an on-air rant from a boomer conservative. He&#8217;s been known to complain about the anti-White actions of Black Lives Matter and the worst of the Social Justice Warriors. He dares to denounce Islam and Muslims. (He knows he has a faction of the controlled media and the establishment on his side when he does that.) But he&#8217;s<em> very, very careful</em> to observe the really big taboos that circumscribe the minds and thoughts of his fellow boomer conservatives &#8212; those quintessential slaves of Political Correctness who pose as its opponents. In describing a recent Thanksgiving get-together at his house, he <em>made sure</em> he told everyone how he had guests who were Christians, guests who &#8220;were of the Jewish faith,&#8221; guests who were Black and Asian and Indian and a few races I&#8217;ve probably forgotten. With tears welling up in his eyes and a lump in his throat, he told everyone how he rejected &#8220;racism&#8221; and how &#8220;we can all be Americans, no matter what our color, as long as we all came here to work our butts off and not be welfare leeches,&#8221; because &#8220;that&#8217;s what being an American is all about.&#8221;</p>



<p>Don&#8217;t be like that poor excuse for a man. Don&#8217;t be a part of the problem. Don&#8217;t be a fool. Don&#8217;t be a boomer conservative.</p>



<p>Do acknowledge that our problems are <em>racial</em> and <em>biological</em>. Do accept your responsibility to ensure a future for the next generation of our people. Do resolve to abandon all myths, to be utterly realistic and face the world <em>as it actually is</em>. And do join together with us; and use your life, whatever energy you may have, and your limited number of days on this planet, to sweep aside all obstacles, fools included, that block the path to our race&#8217;s destiny.</p>



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<p>Source: <em><a href="https://nationalvanguard.org/2017/12/boomer-conservatives-are-always-wrong/">National Vanguard</a></em></p>
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<p><em>The FBI has always been a tool of&nbsp;political suppression</em>.</p>



<p>WHEN THE FBI came out with a report on Hillary Clinton weeks before the 2016 election, Democrats were livid.</p>



<p>But so were Republicans… The report said that even though she had committed a crime by negligently&nbsp;using a personal computer for state business, she would not be charged.</p>



<p>Democrats later cheered the FBI as the Mueller Probe began investigating Trump.&nbsp;Investigations are the same thing as a guilty verdict, right?</p>



<p>And Republicans fumed when it surfaced that two agents exchanged anti-Trump text messages. They even discussed ways to subvert the presidential election and choose the winner.</p>



<p>And now Democrats are back to accusing the FBI of being a partisan tool used by whoever is in power. That&#8217;s because an FBI investigation could not prove a 36-year-old sexual assault accusation true.</p>



<p>Clearly, no one feels super confident in the FBI. And of course, we shouldn&#8217;t. They&#8217;re sketchy as all hell.</p>



<p>J. Edgar Hoover set the tone when, as Director of the FBI, he compiled a list of supposedly disloyal Americans. [He fingered a few Communists &#8212; and even wrote a bestseller about them &#8212; but never once criticized or mentioned the group that created and funded Communism. &#8212; Ed.] He&#8217;s famous for his enemies lists, in fact. But you didn&#8217;t have to break any laws to be considered an enemy.</p>



<p>Let&#8217;s not forget that the&nbsp;FBI <a href="https://nationalvanguard.org/2015/08/23-years-ago-at-ruby-ridge-fbi-sniper-slays-mother-holding-her-baby/">murdered Vicki Weaver</a> at Ruby Ridge. And they&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/why-so-many-people-believe-the-fbi-killed-martin-luther-king-jr/">probably assassinated Martin Luther King Jr.</a> &#8212;&nbsp;they definitely blackmailed him and encouraged him to kill himself.</p>



<p>More recently the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/while-fbi-investigation-distracts-bundy-ranch-case-quietly-dismissed/">FBI spent three years covering up evidence that they sent snipers to surround Bundy Ranch</a>. They conspired with the Bureau of Land Management to suppress evidence favorable to the Bundys.</p>



<p>The FBI also performs warrantless searches of computers using paid informants on The Geek Squad.</p>



<p>This looks even sketchier in light of their standard operating procedure for entrapping&nbsp;would-be terrorists. They usually provide the plot, equipment, and fake explosives, and then arrest the suspect at the scene.</p>



<p>Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh also has an interesting relationship with the FBI…</p>



<p>He helped&nbsp;<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/sinister-battle-brett-kavanaugh-over-202425923.html" class="broken_link">cover up for the FBI&#8217;s intimidation of his own witness</a>&nbsp;while investigating the &#8220;suicide&#8221; of Clinton aide Vincent Foster.</p>



<p>So just consider how untrustworthy the FBI is. And consider how deeply the FBI has infiltrated every area of politics.</p>



<p>The FBI is rotten. And they spread that rot to everything they touch. And they touch everything in the US government.</p>



<p>Therefore, the entire US government is rotten.</p>



<p>You can&#8217;t trust the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the top law enforcement agency in the USA. And you can&#8217;t trust anything that comes out of the government they have infiltrated.</p>



<p>And we know that it was&nbsp;standard operating procedure from the FBI&#8217;s&nbsp;inception to amass damning dossiers on politicians. Then they used blackmail to control them.</p>



<p>Now they can simply make some accusation up and investigate it…&nbsp;which people will assume means guilt.</p>



<p>But the best thing that could happen to America is that we utterly and completely stop trusting this government.</p>



<p>They have proven themselves to be manipulative liars time and time again.</p>



<p>It is impossible to separate the truth from the lies, the real investigations from the political hit jobs.</p>



<p>Lack of trust, lack of faith in this government is a good thing. It brings the responsibility back to you and me.</p>



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<p>There is a dangerous myth that permeates the political arena that government agencies and bureaucrats&nbsp;can somehow be non-political and independent.</p>



<p>How absurd. On the one hand, there are obvious political appointments, like Eric Holder as Attorney General under Obama, or Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State under Trump. Each was clearly chosen to advance the interests of the President, Holder for his radical leftist views and Tillerson for his business ties.</p>



<p>And then there are scarily independent agencies like the CIA and NSA who pretty much do whatever they want, regardless of who heads the Department.</p>



<p>But the FBI is a sketchy mix of independence and politics, and it always has been. From its inception, the first FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover made the agency a hotbed of political suppression, with arbitrary arrests and warrantless searches &#8212; all &#8220;good&#8221; if you didn&#8217;t like the people being targeted, like commies, right? But a little different when <em>your</em> friends and family and political allies are the victims, as many people have discovered. But, oh, what precedents were set back in the good old days!</p>



<p>But that&#8217;s not how the mainstream media are selling it.&nbsp;<em>Will Trump Be The First to Politicize the FBI?</em>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/12/donald-trump-fbi-kelly-ayotte-john-cornyn-215130" class="broken_link">asks Politico Magazine</a>. Their concern is that Trump might appoint someone to the position with a political background, rather than a law enforcement background.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>From its founding over a century ago until Tuesday afternoon, when James Comey was summarily fired as director, the FBI has been led exclusively by nonpartisan career law enforcement professionals with no background in elected politics.</p><p>The bureau, in fact, has been perhaps the last bastion of nonpolitical leadership in Washington–an agency whose powers are so extensive and potentially damaging to American citizens that it has been kept clear of direct political influence.</p></blockquote>



<p>Of course, this statement is ridiculous; you cannot separate a government agency from politics.&nbsp;They are conflating not having been elected with being nonpartisan or apolitical. Nonsense.</p>



<p>But really Politico inadvertently touches on the main problem with the FBI: It was created to target Americans domestically. The FBI was given broad powers that were not just &#8220;potentially damaging&#8221; to American citizens &#8212; that is exactly who they targeted.</p>



<p>Hoover had a plan, which was never put into practice, to suspend <em>habeas&nbsp;corpus</em> and detain thousands of Americans for not being loyal enough to the United States government. For being a &#8220;nonpolitical&#8221; leader, he certainly did a lot to suppress political opposition to those in power.</p>



<p>But Hoover was just doing the only thing he knew. That is how he started in government, during WWI.</p>



<p>President Woodrow Wilson created the&nbsp;political monster, appointing Hoover to the War Emergency Board during WWI and tasking him with arresting dissidents and foreigners without trial who &#8220;seemed disloyal&#8221; to the United States. The raids took place without search warrants, and even though Hoover was the man behind the &#8220;Palmer Raids&#8221; he escaped the political backlash and was even appointed to clean up the agency &#8212; which would soon come to be known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation.</p>



<p>J. Edgar Hoover&nbsp;<a href="http://www.biography.com/people/j-edgar-hoover-9343398">shaped the FBI</a>&nbsp;to be the organization it is today.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>…he created the Counter Intelligence Program, or COINTELPRO. The group conducted a series of covert, and oftentimes illegal, investigations designed to discredit or disrupt radical political organizations…</p><p>Hoover also used COINTELPRO&#8217;s operations to conduct his own personal vendettas against political adversaries in the name of national security…</p><p>In 1971, COINTELPRO&#8217;s tactics were revealed to the public, showing that the agency&#8217;s methods included infiltration, burglaries, illegal wiretaps, planted evidence and false rumors leaked on suspected groups and individuals. Despite the harsh criticism Hoover and the Bureau received, he remained its director until his death on May 2, 1972, at the age of 77.</p></blockquote>



[You&#8217;d be a fool t0 believe that such techniques aren&#8217;t being used right now against American dissidents. &#8212; Ed.] So what&#8217;s all this silliness from Politico claiming that the FBI has never been a politicized organization?</p>



<p>Politico actually recognizes the fact that Hoover abused his power at the FBI, but still, goes on to say the organization has never been political.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>The FBI&#8217;s power over the life, freedom and liberty of the American people is unparalleled in U.S. government, and at key points in the bureau&#8217;s history–from Hoover&#8217;s attempts to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr., to its pursuit of political activists in the 1960s, &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s –we have seen the cost of the FBI&#8217;s abuse of Americans&#8217; civil liberties…</p><p>In the FBI&#8217;s entire centurylong history, it has never had an expressly political director. Hoover, for all his machinations as director, had actually spent his career at the Justice Department.</p></blockquote>



<p>Politico talks about finding a director who is above reproach, who has a stellar record, and who will keep the agency independent and trustworthy. Their solution is to simply find someone who is non-partisan, and who has always worked in the Justice Department… just like J. Edgar Hoover.</p>



<p>If a political organization requires the &#8220;right person in power&#8221; in order to not be corrupt, then it is a bad organization. It is dangerous, and should not exist because it is impossible to find angels to put into those positions of power. [I would put it somewhat differently: As a very wise man once said, there is no substitute for honorable men. And the American political System rewards and advances only the most&nbsp;<em>dishonorable</em> kinds of men (and women). &#8212; Ed]



<p>Perhaps the mainstream media are more concerned over&nbsp;<em>who</em>&nbsp;will be targeted by the FBI. Maybe Politico is really not afraid of the FBI targeting innocent Americans. After all, it has always done that, and who cares.</p>



<p>But what if it turned into a tool of <em>one</em> political faction to be used against <em>another</em> political faction? <em>That&#8217;s</em> what they&#8217;re really afraid of.</p>



<p>It would be more honest if Politico&#8217;s article was summed up like this:</p>



<p><em>The FBI has long been an enemy of the citizens of the United States and abused their authority by suppressing dissent and intimidating political opposition to the System. But now, the FBI might start to be used against us in the elite political class. That&#8217;s totally unacceptable. The only proper targets of the FBI are peasants who don&#8217;t know their place</em>.</p>



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<p>Source: based on articles at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/why-nobody-trusts-the-fbi-and-thats-a-good-thing/"><em>The Daily Bell</em></a></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[We discovered this piece scrawled on some foolscap left on our doorstep, an all-lower-case Kerouac-style stream of consciousness rap, and offer it as we found it. by H. Millard trump is an american original and a throwback to the days when americans were bursting with confidence and energy and the sheer joy of freedom and life itself and  roark and <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2016/11/homeless-jack-on-grabbing-some-pussy/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>We discovered this piece scrawled on some foolscap left on our doorstep, an all-lower-case Kerouac-style stream of consciousness rap, and offer it as we found it.</em></p>
<p>by H. Millard</p>
<p>trump is an american original and a throwback to the days when americans were bursting with confidence and energy and the sheer joy of freedom and life itself and  roark and just doing it and coming in with no apologies goddamn and one flew over the cuckoo&#8217;s nest of the gonadless churchy voices of the wimpy romneys and ryans and the other sissies  and the incompetence of the bushes and the demand by a testosterone challenged society where words are banned and no one dares to grab some pussy and grabbing pussy is just a way of subconsciously burbling that one is grabbing life the life force itself and the boundless energy and the way it was in dumping tea in boston harbor and telling the king to go stuff it and randian energy and building and doing and living fully and not mumbling words and acting like your underwear is too tight and your shoes pinch your toes and prune face looking at the world and being afraid to dance and sing and let your life force hang out he ain&#8217;t no mewling little sissy boy but the sissy boys are in charge and they are the collective nurse ratchet and they demand that one also be a sissy boy and they foolishly  call that a virtue when it is not he is full of spring not winter he is the sheer joy of the young bursting forth and not contained in little boxes by aging school marms who break the human spirit he is a great spirit full of the life force in a day when the establishment is a straight jacket and where minds are trapped in barbed wire made of words and over sensitivity where one can&#8217;t say anything that might offend anyone and this is stultifying and shows that the nation is becoming decrepit and is like being in an old age home instead of the youth that made this a great nation where is the freedom where is the boundless spirit where is the sheer love of life that we once had and we now look over our shoulders as the pencil pushers tsk tsk tsk everything that we do for they are the eternal tsk tskers and they are tea cups and doilies not chopping down trees and not speaking loudly and they talk in little church voices like mormon romney and they demand others also do this he is a rushing river and they&#8217;re fetid polluted little smelly ponds full of muck and death and they demand that all others be fetid ponds full of disease and death and not be raging streams he is a charging bronco not a timid and spirit broken horse for kiddies  he is the america that we celebrate on the fourth of july and they are not they go to parades and they are half dead and they pretend they are still fully alive but look at them look how they live look how they talk they are docile animals trained to be quiet and not be creative or expressive they are not risk takers they are not doers they are lifeless husks with no life force rising in them they have been beaten down and now they are like whipped dogs and the establishment is their master they are not full of the life force anymore they are timid and afraid of life and afraid to say they want to grab some of that pussy and remember that is like saying you want to grab life it is the way a man full of life might express the thought that i am alive and i love my life and i want to grab the day and it is in words that a man might use rather than the sissy talk of the phony offended ones whose pretend outrage is stupid they are untermenschen be the ubermensch and live loud and proud and be who and what you were born to be and leave behind the afraid of life haters who hate life itself and want nothing more than to not be so be alive and grab some pussy</p>
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		<title>The American Mercury Endorses Donald Trump for President</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Gideon Dene Editor, The American Mercury DONALD TRUMP is the obvious choice for President in 2016. It could even be argued that he is the only real choice Americans have had for a century or more. All of the other candidates have been, and are now, obvious shills for Wall Street and Zionist extremism. Putting Hillary or Bernie in <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2016/06/the-american-mercury-endorses-donald-trump-for-president/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by Gideon Dene<br />
Editor, <em>The American Mercury</em></p>
<p>DONALD TRUMP is the obvious choice for President in 2016. It could even be argued that he is the only real choice Americans have had for a century or more. All of the other candidates have been, and are now, obvious shills for Wall Street and Zionist extremism.</p>
<p>Putting Hillary or Bernie in charge would be like sowing salt in the fields of America: Nothing would change, nothing would grow, America would keep on dying.</p>
<p>Hillary and Bern are oligarch-puppets, sexless mannequins made out of GMO- and pesticide-laced stale bread and kept animated by toxic preservatives and string-pulling media con men.</p>
<p>Trump is fresh, brash, brutally honest, red-blooded, masculine, and vitally alive. He is a real man, a real American &#8212; who prevails and gets stronger and stronger every time the media attack him. The people sense that honesty and that strength &#8212; and are giving him their loyalty, enthusiasm, and votes in ever-increasing numbers.</p>
<p>Donald J. Trump refuses to kowtow to Political Correctness. For example, he&#8217;s willing to notice differences, such as the differences between Muslims and the mostly Christian and free-thinking population of the United States. He&#8217;s even called for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration until we can decide as a nation which Muslims we should exclude for our own good &#8212; and which we should accept.</p>
<p>On the subject of &#8220;our own good&#8221;: To even utter the idea, as Trump has, that the existing American population has interests of its own that might not be served by wide-open borders is <em>streng verboten</em> according to the oligarchy that rules us. Trump&#8217;s blasting of the rotten oligarchy&#8217;s taboos to pieces with his frank words and powerful personality has opened up the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window">Overton Window</a> and brought us some real debate for a change. And that&#8217;s exactly what we needed.</p>
<p>He openly questions the wisdom of so-called free trade, going against the rotting secular religion of free market liberal democracy. &#8220;Free trade&#8221;? Bad idea, kills American jobs, makes us weaker, says The Donald. He doesn&#8217;t give a damn if his fellow billionaires are making more money exploiting Third World labor than can be imagined in the wildest dreams of avarice. He wants American jobs and American manufacturing protected &#8212; and expanded. And the financiers that run business and politics in this country <em>hate</em> that.</p>
<p>Candidates are supposed to be bought and paid for. They&#8217;re allowed to make occasional noises criticizing free trade, but never do anything substantial about it. Donald J. Trump, on the other hand, wants to renegotiate all the existing trade deals &#8212; with the interests of the American manufacturer, small businessman, and worker paramount in his mind &#8212; and set up some steep tariffs for foreign countries that won&#8217;t play fair. And the money-men know he means it. That&#8217;s why they hate him with a passion.</p>
<p>I wouldn&#8217;t trust the Wall Street crowd with my ice cream cone money, but I do trust their hatred of Donald Trump as an accurate indication that the Man in the Red Hat would spoil their selfish games. About time too!</p>
<p>Even though he has Jewish family members and is enthusiastically supportive of Israel, Donald Trump was against and remains firmly against the &#8220;neoconservative&#8221; cabal that brought us fifteen years of wars for Zionism in the Middle East, wars that have ravaged that part of the world, killed millions of innocents, and made an entire generation of Middle Easterners 1) hate the West, including America, and 2) migrate to the West, including America &#8212; a deadly combination for all concerned.</p>
<p>Donald Trump is simply being honest when he says we need to rethink these wars &#8212; and this wave of migration. He also says he would be an even-handed negotiator when it comes to peace between Israel and Palestine, which has enraged the neocons and some extremist Israelis &#8212; but given real hope to practically everyone else.</p>
<p>Speaking of hope, Donald J. Trump offers more real hope for African-Americans in one campaign stop than Barack Obama or Hillary have given in their entire sordid, sycophantic careers. Obama played Stepinfetchit to the bankers and the warmongers, and demoralized Black folks who thought he would be different. Bernie and Hillary would dance to the same tune, and everybody knows it.</p>
<p>The lying national media pillory Trump as a &#8220;racist,&#8221; but African-Americans have a sense that Trump is the real deal and his lack of smarmy PC-speak is proof that he&#8217;s not jiving them. They respect him. In a world of phonies, D.J. Trump is a real man. Black people are some of the biggest economic victims of mass immigration and &#8220;free trade&#8221; and plenty of them know it. People of color are among those most affected by America&#8217;s crumbling economy and infrastructure, and nobody but Trump has a plan to fix &#8212; or even seems to care about &#8212; those things. Many African-Americans are ready for a change and ready to vote Trump &#8212; the only Republican in decades with that kind of appeal.</p>
<p>Just because he laughs at liberal orthodoxy doesn&#8217;t make Donald Trump a conventional conservative. He&#8217;s more of a practical man &#8212; a deal-maker; a business-builder &#8212; who simply wants to make America great again by making things <em>work</em> again: and that means people, infrastructure, government, business, the works. And he&#8217;s willing to use the power of government to make that happen. Like Putin in Russia, Trump would be able to sit opposing factions down at a table and make things happen by the force of his personality and the implied force of the state behind his words. And he&#8217;d use both those forces against the entrenched, moneyed interests, too &#8212; something that the bought-and-paid-for milquetoasts who usually get elected are paid not to do.</p>
<p>Speaking of Putin, Trump is someone the Russian leader &#8212; and other world leaders &#8212; could work with and <em>respect</em>. Putin himself said so, and Trump reciprocated. (Trump is even willing to defy taboos and sit down and talk with Palestinian and North Korean leaders &#8212; what a refreshing change!) <em>Respect</em> is a word that is never used in conjunction with the pathetic crop of US presidents we&#8217;ve had lately &#8212; clueless boob and war criminal George W. Bush, servile lackey and war criminal Barack Obama, serial rapist, war criminal, and intellectual nonentity Bill Clinton. What a sad lot of amoral, order-taking phonies.</p>
<p>We at the <em>Mercury</em> do not hand out endorsements often or lightly. Most politicians are despicable criminals and employees of our oppressors &#8212; and some of the worst are Republicans. As our founder, H.L. Mencken, said: &#8220;<span class="bqQuoteLink">In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.</span>&#8221;</p>
<p>Frankly, the Republican establishment that openly hated Trump until a few weeks ago (and now secretly hates him) was right about one thing: Donald Trump is not really a Republican. True indeed. In our thoroughly crooked &#8220;two-party system,&#8221; Trump had to assume the mantle of one establishment party or the other. He took the Republicans&#8217; mantle &#8212; against their will. But when he wins in November, he will not be a Republican president. He will be an American president.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Keith Johnson WAS SLAIN Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamarlin Tsarnaev (pictured) coerced, blackmailed or manipulated by Mossad agents posing as FBI agents? Mark Glenn and the crew over at The Ugly Truth have produced a series of radio broadcasts making a compelling argument that he was: TUT Broadcast April 20, 2013 The Victory Hour April 22, 2013 TUT Broadcast <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2013/04/by-way-of-deception-thou-shalt-do-boston/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>by Keith Johnson</p>
<p>WAS SLAIN Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamarlin Tsarnaev (pictured) coerced, blackmailed or manipulated by Mossad agents posing as FBI agents?</p>
<p>Mark Glenn and the crew over at <a href="http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="broken_link">The Ugly Truth </a>have produced a series of radio broadcasts making a compelling argument that he was:</p>
<p><a href="http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/tut-broadcast-april-20-2013/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="broken_link">TUT Broadcast April 20, 2013</a><br />
<a href="http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/the-victory-hour-april-22-2013/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="broken_link">The Victory Hour April 22, 2013</a><br />
<a href="http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/tut-broadcast-april-23-2013/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="broken_link">TUT Broadcast April 23, 2013 </a></p>
<p>As with any likely false-flag scenario, one must ask Cui Bono? ~ who benefits?</p>
<p>The American people certainly did not benefit, nor did the Muslim world of which Tsarnaev identified. Attacking a sporting event attended by innocent men, women and children from around the world makes no strategic sense unless the perpetrators intended to entice retaliation. It stands to reason then, that those perpetrators would have to pose as their enemy to bring about a charged response against that enemy.</p>
<p>So who stands to benefit from such an operation?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/diplomania/boston-bombing-will-boost-u-s-support-for-israel-says-netanyahu-aide.premium-1.516721" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">From Haaretz</a>:</p>
<p><i>Ron Dermer, a diplomatic advisor consultant to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and candidate for the post of Israeli ambassador to Washington, told a closed meeting of U.S. Jewish leaders in New York last week that the Boston marathon bombings would increase American support for Israel — just as that support increased following the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.</i></p>
<p><i>Dermer made his remarks last Wednesday, two days after explosions rocked the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding nearly 200 more. Dermer, considered one of Netanyahu&#8217;s closest associates, is currently on vacation, after having finished his stint as a senior adviser at the Prime Minister&#8217;s Bureau.</i></p>
<p><i>&#8220;The bulk of the American people stand firmly with Israel and identify with Israel,&#8221; Dermer said, in a video filmed by blogger Jacob Kornbluh. &#8220;If you can look, historically, there was a big change after 9/11, and I am sure that after the tragic bombing in Boston, people will identify more with Israel and its struggle against terrorism and we can maintain that support.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Commenting on the aforementioned article, The Ugly Truth&#8217;s Mark Glenn writes:</p>
<p><em>Sound familiar? It should. Netanyahu said virtually the EXACT same thing in the aftermath of the Israeli engineered act of war against America on 9/11, saying the attacks were `good&#8217; as they would generate `immediate sympathy for Israel.&#8217;</em></p>
<p>Now that we have established Cui Bono, where do we go from here in establishing links between the benefactors and the perpetrators? Indulge me.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a long and arduous journey to the truth. Let&#8217;s begin…</p>
<p>The FBI now admits that they made contact with Tamarlin Tsarnaev in 2011 but failed to find any incriminating information about him.</p>
<p><a href="http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/20/cbs-news-fbi-interviewed-tamerlan-tsarnaev-2-years-ago/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">According to CBS</a>:</p>
<p><i>As first reported by CBS News correspondent Bob Orr, the FBI interviewed Tsarnaev, the elder brother of at-large bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, at the request of a foreign government to see if he had any extremist ties, but failed to find any linkage. </i></p>
<p><i>Both Tsarnaev brothers were legal permanent residents of the U.S. There is no evidence so far that either brother received any tactical training.</i></p>
<p><i>CBS News correspondent John Miller reports it is likely Russia asked to have the elder Tsarnaev vetted because of suspected ties to Chechen extremists.</i></p>
<p><i>The FBI is likely to have run a background check, running his name through all the relevant databases, including those of other agencies, checking on his communications and all of his overseas travel. Miller reports that culminated in a sit-down interview where they probably asked him a lot of questions about his life, his contacts, his surroundings. All of this was then written in a report and sent it to the requesting government.</i></p>
<p>So the FBI responded to a tip from Russia in 2011, right? However, <a href="http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/22034735/charges-likely-sunday-for-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">NBC News reports</a> that the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) provided FBI with information on Tsarnaev as recently as Novemebr 2012:</p>
<p><i>A police official source in Makhachkala, Dagestan, told NBC News on Sunday that the Russian internal security service reached out to the FBI last November with some questions about Tamerlan, and handed over a copy of case file on him.</i></p>
<p><i>Tsarnaev had first popped up on the local police radar in Dagestan last summer, the source said. During routine surveillance of an individual known to be involved in the militant Islamic underground movement, the police witnessed Tamerlan meet the latter at a Salafi mosque in Makhachkala, the police official said.</i></p>
<p><i>It was one of six times in total that surveillance officials witnessed Tsarnaev meeting this militant at the same mosque, according to the police official. The militant contact later disappeared, the police official said, but so did Tsarnaev before investigators had a chance to speak with him. The FBI never responded, according to the Dagestani police official.</i></p>
<p>So why didn&#8217;t the FBI follow up? <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/04/23/the-russians-warned-us-why-didnt-we-listen/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">According to Justin Raimondo</a> of Antiwar.com:</p>
<p><i>The problem is that the Chechen &#8220;freedom fighters&#8221; are <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/colleen-rowley/2013/04/21/chechen-terrorists-and-the-neocons/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">US allies</a>, along with their ideological compatriots in Libya and Syria…</i> <i>Although support for the Chechen independence movement is bipartisan, that troublesome little sect known as the neoconservatives has actively backed the Chechen cause from the get-go: an impressive list of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/08/usa.russia" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">prominent neocons</a>, including Bill Kristol, sits on the board of the Chechens&#8217; principal US propaganda outfit, the <a href="http://www.peaceinthecaucasus.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus</a> (formerly the <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/American_Committee_for_Peace_in_Chechnya" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">American Committee for Peace in Chechnya</a>). According to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38200-2005Mar15_2.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Glen Howard</a>, head of the Jamestown Foundation, a neocon outfit focused on Central Asia, the Chechens aren&#8217;t Islamist terrorists, they&#8217;re just cuddly &#8220;nationalists&#8221; rebelling against a Russia that has gone &#8220;fascist.&#8221; &#8220;The Russians are trying to treat Chechen separatism through the prism of 9/11 and terror rather than as a nationalist movement that has been defying Kremlin rule for 200 years,&#8221; says Howard.</i></p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/22/why-the-fbi-didn-t-make-much-of-russia-s-request-to-probe-boston-bomber.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this explanation</a> from neocon mouthpiece Eli Lake of The Daily Beast:</p>
<p><i>There were good reasons that the tip didn&#8217;t trigger a more aggressive American investigation, current and former intelligence and law-enforcement officials tell The Daily Beast.</i></p>
<p><i>Those officials pointed to the FSB&#8217;s habit of treating much behavior by Chechens as suspicious, and nearly all such behavior as terror-related. The Tsarnaev request, they speculated, was likely triggered by the FSB&#8217;s concern that he would participate in or provide support to Chechen insurrectionists in Russia, rather that by any sense of a threat to American interests.</i></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s another theory: Did the FBI ignore Russia&#8217;s warning because Tsarnaev was working as an intelligence asset for the U.S. government? There&#8217;s no evidence to reach that conclusion, but all things should be taken into consideration.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s yet another theory to consider: Did Tsarnaev THINK he was working as an intelligence asset for the U.S. government? Was Tsarnaev lured, coerced or blackmailed into carrying out intelligence operations by foreign operatives posing as U.S. intelligence or law enforcement agents?</p>
<p>So far, the FBI admits to coming in contact with Tsarnaev on ONLY ONE occasion. However, Tsarnaev&#8217;s mother <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10011456/Marathon-bomber-Tamerlan-Tsarnaevs-mother-I-want-to-bury-him-in-Boston.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">told</a> The Daily Telegraph that her son <i>&#8220;first aroused suspicions in the United States in 2008, and <b>FBI agents met him on `at least five&#8217; occasions afterwards</b>, the last time a year and a half ago. </i></p>
<p><i>She said: `They came and asked him, what are you doing, what are you up to? </i></p>
<p><i>`They said Tamerlan was an influential lad, he had the personality of a leader. And they asked me, `Don&#8217;t you have any thoughts that he could organise some kind of group of a terrorist persuasion?&#8217; </i></p>
<p><i>`They said they&#8217;d seen what kind of videos he&#8217;d been looking at, and they told me that they keep young leaders among Muslims under control so there aren&#8217;t any bombings, so that they don&#8217;t fall under someone&#8217;s influence.&#8217;</i></p>
<p><i>Mrs Tsarnaeva said FBI agents contacted her son by telephone a final time three days after the marathon bombing, one day before he died. </i></p>
<p><i>&#8220;They said he was suspected of involvement and told him he needed to come in for questioning,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He told them to come and find him and hung up. He was fed up with talking to them.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>I should stress that the mother said her son had been contacted &#8220;at least five&#8221; times by the FBI in addition to the single occasion that the FBI admits to. The last time was three days after the Boston Marathon bombing, something that the FBI denies. <a href="http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/fbi_denies_report_elder_tsarnaev_was_contacted_last_week" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">According to the Boston Herald</a>:</p>
<p><i>The FBI is strongly refuting a report by Britain&#8217;s Channel 4 News that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was contacted by federal agents last week, days after the Marathon bombings and days before he allegedly murdered an MIT police officer and before he was killed in a gunfight with cops and his fugitive brother held Greater Boston hostage for an entire day.</i></p>
<p><i>&#8220;Story is false,&#8221; a spokeswoman for the agency said in an email response to a Herald inquiry.</i></p>
<p>In a separate <a href="http://rt.com/usa/tsarnaev-brothers-parents-innocent-124/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">interview with Russia Today</a> (RT), Tsarnaev&#8217;s mother said the FBI &#8220;<i>used to come [to our] home, they used to talk to me…they were telling me that he [the older, 26-y/o Tamerlan] was really an extremist leader and that they were afraid of him. They told me whatever information he is getting, he gets from these extremist sites… they were controlling him, they were controlling his every step…and now they say that this is a terrorist act!</i> <i>Never ever is this true, my sons are innocent!&#8221;</i></p>
<p>So is the FBI lying or intentionally withholding information about multiple contacts with Tsarnaev? Maybe not. That&#8217;s not to say that Tsarnaev&#8217;s mother is lying either. But if the FBI didn&#8217;t control Tsarnaev&#8217;s &#8220;every step,&#8221; as his mother claims, then who did?</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve now come full circle. We know that Israel is the one entity that stands to benefit from the attacks in Boston. But is it in their character to pose as U.S. intelligence of law enforcement assets in order to manipulate patsies into performing actions that serve their interests? Oh yeah! After all, the motto of their intelligence service is &#8220;By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War.</p>
<p>In a January 2012 article for Foreign Policy, entitled <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="broken_link">False Flag</a>, Mark Perry writes:</p>
<p><i>Buried deep in the archives of America&#8217;s intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years of President George W. Bush&#8217;s administration, that describe how Israeli Mossad officers recruited operatives belonging to the terrorist group Jundallah by passing themselves off as American agents. According to two U.S. intelligence officials, the Israelis, flush with American dollars and toting U.S. passports, posed as CIA officers in recruiting Jundallah operatives – what is commonly referred to as a &#8220;false flag&#8221; operation. </i></p>
<p><i>The memos, as described by the sources, one of whom has read them and another who is intimately familiar with the case, investigated and debunked reports from 2007 and 2008 accusing the CIA, at the direction of the White House, of covertly supporting Jundallah – a Pakistan-based Sunni extremist organization. Jundallah, according to <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/11/150332.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><strong>the U.S. government</strong></a> and <a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/Jundallah_Profile_Of_A_Sunni_Extremist_Group/1856699.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><strong>published reports</strong></a>, is responsible for assassinating Iranian government officials and killing Iranian women and children. </i></p>
<p><i>But while the memos show that the United States had barred even the most incidental contact with Jundallah, according to both intelligence officers, the same was not true for Israel&#8217;s Mossad. The memos<b> </b>also detail CIA field reports saying that Israel&#8217;s recruiting activities occurred under the nose of U.S. intelligence officers, most notably in London, the capital of one of Israel&#8217;s ostensible allies, where Mossad officers posing as CIA operatives met with Jundallah officials.</i></p>
<p><i>The officials did not know whether the Israeli program to recruit and use Jundallah is ongoing. Nevertheless, they were stunned by the brazenness of the Mossad&#8217;s efforts. </i></p>
<p><i>&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing what the Israelis thought they could get away with,&#8221; the intelligence officer said. &#8220;Their recruitment activities were nearly in the open. They apparently didn&#8217;t give a damn what we thought.&#8221; </i></p>
<p>So if Mossad agents would be so bold as to pose as CIA agents abroad, who&#8217;s to say they aren&#8217;t posing as FBI agents or CIA agents on American soil? Some may say that they would never dare do something like that right under our noses. Really? In an August 2010 article for the American Conservative, entitled <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/mossad-in-america/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mossad in America</a>, former CIA station chief Phillip Giraldi writes:</p>
<p><i>Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the United States are intended for the media and popular consumption. The reality is that Israel&#8217;s intelligence agencies target the United States intensively, particularly in pursuit of military and dual-use civilian technology. Among nations considered to be friendly to Washington, Israel leads all others in its active espionage directed against American companies and the Defense Department. It also dominates two commercial sectors that enable it to extend its reach inside America&#8217;s domestic infrastructure: airline and telecommunications security. Israel is believed to have the ability to monitor nearly all phone records originating in the United States, while numerous Israeli air-travel security companies are known to act as the local Mossad stations.</i></p>
<p><i>As tensions with Iran increase, sources in the counterintelligence community report that Israeli agents have become more aggressive in targeting Muslims living in the United States as well as in operating against critics. There have been a number of cases reported to the FBI about Mossad officers who have approached leaders in Arab-American communities and have falsely represented themselves as &#8220;U.S. intelligence.&#8221; Because few Muslims would assist an Israeli, this is done to increase the likelihood that the target will cooperate. It&#8217;s referred to as a &#8220;false flag&#8221; operation.</i></p>
<p><i>Mossad officers sought to recruit Arab-Americans as sources willing to inform on their associates and neighbors. The approaches, which took place in New York and New Jersey, were reportedly handled clumsily, making the targets of the operation suspicious. These Arab-Americans turned down the requests for cooperation, and some of the contacts were eventually reported to the FBI, which has determined that at least two of the Mossad officers are, ironically, Israeli Arabs operating out of Israel&#8217;s mission to the United Nations in New York under cover as consular assistants.</i></p>
<p><i>In another bizarre case, U.S.S. Liberty survivor Phil Tourney was recently accosted in Southern California by a foreigner who eventually identified himself as an Israeli government representative. Tourney was taunted, and the Israeli threatened both him and journalist Mark Glenn, who has been reporting on the Liberty story. Tourney was approached in a hotel lounge, and it is not completely clear how the Israeli was able to identify him. But he knew exactly who Tourney was, as the official referred to the Liberty, saying that the people who had been killed on board had gotten what they deserved. There were a number of witnesses to the incident, including Tourney&#8217;s wife. The threat has been reported to the FBI, which is investigating, but Tourney and Glenn believe that the incident is not being taken seriously by the bureau.</i></p>
<p><i>FBI sources indicate that the increase in Mossad activity is a major problem, particularly when Israelis are posing as U.S. government officials, but they also note that there is little they can do to stop it as the Justice Department refuses to initiate any punitive action or prosecutions of the Mossad officers who have been identified as involved in the illegal activity.</i></p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t want to take Giraldi&#8217;s word for it, then perhaps you&#8217;d be more inclined to believe The Washington Post. In a September 2010 post of his &#8220;Spy Talk&#8221; column, <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/09/israeli_spies_pitching_us_musl.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jeff Stein quoted</a> a second former CIA official who supported Giraldi&#8217;s account:</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Oh, sure, they do that,&#8221; </i>Stein quoted the unnamed official as saying<i>, &#8220;They&#8217;re all over the place.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The Israelis are masters of deception and have a long history of wearing multiple disguises. Here&#8217;s just one random example from 1988:</p>
<p><i><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-07/entertainment/ca-8301_1_abc-news" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Arledge Alleges That Israelis Posed as ABC News Crew</a></i></p>
<p><i>NEW YORK</i><b><i>—</i></b><i>ABC News President Roone Arledge has sharply protested to Israeli officials what he said were Israel security forces who posed as an ABC News crew to lure a Palestinian youth to his arrest, the network said Wednesday.</i></p>
<p><i>ABC News President Roone Arledge has sharply protested to Israeli officials what he said were Israel security forces who posed as an ABC News crew to lure a Palestinian youth to his arrest, the network said Wednesday.</i></p>
<p><i>Yediot Ahrnot, a Hebrew-language newspaper in Jerusalem, reported the incident and said it occurred in a village 20 miles north of Jerusalem. The newspaper said villagers claimed that Israeli security forces posing as an ABC News crew lured the Palestinian youth into their car on the pretext of seeking an interview then arrested him for throwing firebombs.</i></p>
<p>What role the Tsarnaev brothers played in the Boston Marathon bombing is still unclear, but there is ample evidence to suggest that they were manipulated by shadow elements to perform actions that would ultimately implicate them.</p>
<p><a href="http://rt.com/usa/tsarnaev-brothers-parents-innocent-124/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">According to RT</a>:</p>
<p><i>Russian `Alpha&#8217; Special Forces team-veteran and vice-president of its International Association, Aleksey Filatov, believes there is more to the case than meets the eye. He emphasizes, firstly, that the origin and religious beliefs of the suspect, along with the specifics of the bombing, have all been carefully pre-meditated and planned by someone within the United States in order to distract the public from the true identity and long-term aims of the actual planners.</i></p>
<p><strong><em>&#8220;Putting a young Chechen in those shoes was top-notch professionalism in distracting everyone from the true identity and motives of the planner.&#8221;</em></strong></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[by Victor Misek THE PENSION FUND CRISIS&#160;in the United States extends into the public and private sectors of the economy to an extent unprecedented in the history of mankind.&#160; It&#8217;s instructive to compare two of the most notorious individuals involved in the mass destruction and destabilization of pension funds invested in debt instruments.&#160; The two individuals in my cross-hairs are <a class="more-link" href="https://theamericanmercury.org/2012/10/pension-fund-killers-milken-and-bernanke/">Continue Reading &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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<p>by Victor Misek</p>



<p>THE PENSION FUND CRISIS&nbsp;in the United States extends into the public and private sectors of the economy to an extent unprecedented in the history of mankind.&nbsp; It&#8217;s instructive to compare two of the most notorious individuals involved in the mass destruction and destabilization of pension funds invested in debt instruments.&nbsp; The two individuals in my cross-hairs are Michael Milken and Benjamin Bernanke, a pair of Wall Street types specializing in contrasting methods of financial mass destruction.</p>



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<p>Michael Milken&#8217;s career began in the 1970s when he noticed that many corporations had over-funded their employee pension plans with high quality securities.&nbsp; He reasoned (correctly) that such corporations would jump at the chance to refinance these plans with cheaper high yield junk bonds.&nbsp; The high quality securities could be sold off and replaced with cheaper junk. The corporation could then pocket the difference, in effect looting the pension fund and using the proceeds for corporate expansion, executive bonuses, etc.&nbsp; Major corporations swallowed the bait and things went swimmingly until an economic downturn caused major defaults in the junk bond universe.&nbsp; The resulting pension fund failures caused thousands of employees and retirees to lose their pensions, often their entire life savings.&nbsp; Michael ended up with a ten year prison sentence and banishment from the finance industry, a trivial punishment considering the heartbreak and misery he caused.</p>



<p>Ben Bernanke as head of the Federal Reserve Board used his position to slash interest rates through massive bond-buying schemes called &#8220;quantitative easing&#8221; (QE). For years this has caused the yield on most debt paper to remain at historic lows, in effect strangling the income stream of pension funds.&nbsp; The capital requirements of pension funds are calculated on an income assumption based on available interest rates.&nbsp; Funds based on an income assumption of 9% suddenly found themselves looking at available rates of 3% or less. To maintain the stability of such a fund it would either have to <em>triple</em> its capitalization or cut its benefits by 66.7% ! Many funds did not reduce their payout to adjust to the reduced income, causing them to expend capital to maintain monthly benefit rates.&nbsp; Worse yet, the injection of thousands of billions into the economy has had an inflationary effect, eroding the purchasing power of the shrinking remainder.</p>



<p>The pensions destroyed by Milken were restricted to a limited number in the private (corporate) sector. He specialized in destroying capitalization through high risk junk bond default.&nbsp; At the height of his popularity he was known as the &#8220;Junk Bond King.&#8221; Once convicted and imprisoned he was called other less friendly names.</p>



<p>The pensions destroyed by Bernanke dwarf in number and extent the damage caused by Milken.&nbsp;&nbsp;Bernanke will be remembered as the greatest pension fund killer of all time. The current ultra-low interest rates are causing the failure of public, private, corporate, municipal, state, and federal pensions.&nbsp; At the height of his popularity he was known as &#8220;Helicopter Ben&#8221; because he at one time proclaimed that he would dump money from helicopters like confetti, if necessary, to &#8220;juice up&#8221; the economy.&nbsp; Now that he is destroying the retirement plans of millions of Americans, new, less complimentary, names are being heard.</p>



<p>Unsustainable pension plans have already caused the bankruptcy of various cities in California, the bankruptcy of General Motors, and the insolvency of the US Postal Service.&nbsp; Money market, short term treasury, savings account, checking account. and bank CD yields are near zero &#8212; while food and fuel prices spiral upward, indicating a shredding of the US dollar.</p>



<p>Government policies are also stimulating the influx of excess labor into our country, causing collapsing wages, high unemployment, welfare overload, home foreclosures, and personal and business bankruptcies &#8212; and all of these effects massively reduce the contributions to pension funds from wages.&nbsp; As in the case of Michael Milken, serious prison time is needed for the drunken-spending politicians and Fed personalities responsible for this disaster.</p>
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