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Our Samizdat and Big Tech Censorship

The most amazing development in the past few decades has been the appearance of the American Samizdat.

The term 'samizdat' comes from the vast underground publishing world that arose among the dissident intellectuals in the USSR. Person to person circulation of books, zines and poetry. It was real.

Once in St. Petersburg, I was able to have a confidential conversation with a Russian Jew while taking an evening walk. He quizzed me on a number of international issues to validate the information he got from the samizdat. Much of what he knew was more accurate, in 1982, than I got directly from the mainstream Western press.

Today, American patriots get nearly all their news from each other and from a wide range of dissident media. There are vast Internet underground sources as well as radio and underground video. The U.S..mainstream media is more fabricated and false than Pravda or Izvestia, the mouth pieces of the Kremlin in its heyday.

When meeting and talking to each other, American patriots immediately recognize each other by the type of political information they mutually use. It is an immediate secret handshake and source of communal identity.

I argue that the American samizdat is a strong bond for the patriots and it is a positive reinforcement of group identity.

There is currently widespread discussion of government action to disable the high tech mainstream false and censored media.

I disagree. It won't be possible for the government to undo censorship, nor will the government understand the dimensions of the pervasive false media.

We are better off letting the false media carry-on as it is and let the American samizdat thrive.

Democrats Hurt the Poor

The poor in America are punished by the Democrat Party in many ways. A disproportionately high proportion of the poor are Black.

This is not a political blog.

When I was young in San Francisco, the black population was 11%, today it is 3%. Then there was a thriving Black scene with black music, food, churches and community life. I enjoyed it. Today, the remaining parts are desolate, dangerous and hopeless.

I was the business manager of a black church for 13 years and created a park for street people-winos, most of whom were black. The park was destroyed by the City politics. Diane Feinstein was mayor. I went to many black parties and could understand black English and speak a little of it.

I played a role in getting blacks on the police force in high proportions and similarly in the fire department. Blacks were never given decent promotions in either department. I once got an article in the New Yorker, by Jeffrey Toobin, absolving a rising black officer, falsely charged. The racist persecution ended promptly.

The municipal bus service in San Francisco, was a good source of black jobs. The top management was and is terrible, with poor political oversight, making the bus service, heavily used by blacks, a total failure.

Since 1965 the control of the National Democrat Party has passed from the Dixiecrats to Unions. Unions have meant that public schools are totally inadequate for black children.

Let's start with a direct assault on blacks by the local San Francisco Democrat Party. Menthol cigarettes are banned in San Francisco. Nearly all menthols were smoked by blacks.

All low income sources of retail and fast food has been banned or driven out of San Francisco. Banned: Walmart, an urban haven for blacks.

Vast urban renewal destroyed black neighborhoods and drove most blacks out of the City. Drive-in food has been zoned against: McDonald's, Popeye's, Burger King, KFC and others.

Low income housing was and is the most corrupt City department with the result being stolen funds for repair and maintenance. The Department of Public Works is now the most corrupt. Was a source of black jobs.

The highest minimum wage laws of any major city are in force in San Francisco. Fewer part-time jobs for blacks.

Zoning has long been against industry even in desolate parts of the City. A major source of jobs for blacks. Open government hostility to all shipping and the port industry; another source of black jobs. Open discrimination against Home Depot and Lowes, more loss of black jobs. The only location allowed for either was much too small to be successful.

Aggressive legal destruction of gas stations with lower prices and extensive favoritism for bicycles with bicycle lanes only to non-black neighborhoods.

Laws and zoning that drove out an extensive network of second hand stores with especially harsh rules against children's toys. 

I can't ignore the Democrat national policy of getting rid of 'Pay-day-loan' businesses. Almost 100% used by blacks. This isn't such a big issue because these networks are built into the black community and just migrated away from business outlets. Now it's more expensive for blacks. I personally ran a similar operation for my black fellow soldiers in the Army. Everyone repaid every loan at the next pay day and borrowed again immediately.

And the worst anti-black policy: aggressive school busing in a very geographically small city. Busing drove whites out of the City. The population in low income neighborhoods were replaced with Chinese, Filipinos and other Asians. I played an active roll in school busing, as a liberal, and I have publicly apologized many times.

All of this in a Democrat run and controlled city. with figurehead black officials far out of proportion to their local population.

The Democrat Party is hard on the poor and especially poor blacks.

New York Bias

I was born in Manhattan but left to follow my mother at 6 months.

During my most productive years from age 21 onward I've lived in San Francisco.

I have often written about the way America and the world see news and history from a New York centric perspective. Boston, D.C. and West LA are often include if they are important to New York.

New York claimed to invent TV, but it came from San Francisco as did the Beatniks, the Gay and Lesbian movements, the Hippies (which NY didn't like) and all the inventions of the hippies: modern cuisine, personal computers, The Internet, most software, hacking, blue jean styles, the modern bicycle, outdoor lifestyle, skateboards, mixed drinks and a hundred other vital and original American inventions.

I write today because I realize that the New York Times and its social coterie want to destroy America. They are openly anti-American. They don't actually know America. They are themselves Euro-centric and have adopted the European globalist view. A Marxist class view with a modified genetic definition of class.

What is my evidence?

• The best evidence is the NYTimes creation of 1619; the thesis that America was founded on slave roots that pervade our entire history and current milieu. A total fabrication of history.
• The endless daily attacks on President Trump a popular man with vast and diverse middle American support and an overwhelming electoral victory in his 2016 election.
• Refusal to report the high level of treason committed by President Obama on leaving office. Worst case of treason in American history.
• NYTimes spent two years, daily excoriating the President for collusion with Russia. A total fiction.

The New York bias is in favor of the destruction of the America that is 240 years old.

Israel is not a Theocracy but Much of Europe is

Jew-haters regularly complain that Israel is a theocracy. That it is the only single-religion nation.

They are flat out wrong.

There are obviously many Islamic nations and many of them are intolerant of non-Muslims.

Both Indonesia and Malaysia are examples where the non-Muslim Chinese minority are harshly treated. Both are large countries with a total population of over a quarter billion people.

There is Myanmar with 60 million Buddhists that is intolerant of Muslims.

Iran with 80 million people that are Shia Muslim that is intolerant of Sunni Muslims, Jews and Baha'i.

The most egregious ignorance of the Jew-haters is that six nations of Europe are still Roman Catholic. What they ignore is what happened during the siege of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem in Spring 2002.

More than a dozen Palestinian terrorists took refuge in the Church and held 200 Roman Catholic monks hostage for nearly two months, surrounded by the Israeli Army.

When a truce was called to free the monks, six European nations agreed to take two each of the Palestinian terrorists. Spain, France, Austria, Italy, Poland and Portugal at the request of the Vatican. The six European nations with a population of 230 million are still Roman Catholic countries. These same countries had difficult political struggles for the past 50 years over abortion, a Roman Catholic issue.

Israel is far from unique among nations except to the Jew-haters.

The religious rule in Israel is limited to national observance of Saturday as the Sabbath and the important holidays of Jewish New Years and Yom Kippur. All traffic stops for a moment on the memorial of the Holocaust.

Israel with more than a million Arab Muslims living within its borders is not a theocracy. It is the Jewish homeland.

 

 

 

Brief Window for Jews in America

My close friend, Robert Gnaizda died in August. Bob, a Jew, was the leading public advocate in America and the most successful. At his memorial I said that the two of us were fortunate to have lived in the exact brief period of non-Jew-hate in America.

What we, two Jewish boys, accomplished was only possible for Jews from 1965 to 2006.

Bob entered the labor force in 1960. When he graduated from Yale there were no jobs for Jews at major East Coast law firms. When I entered the labor force, as a banker, in 1964, Jews were not accepted in management at any important banks.

By 1965 Bob was able to found the CRLA (California Rural Legal Assistance Inc.) because Jewish lawyers on the West Coast were no longer stigmatized. In the same year I was employed by the Bank of America and given unlimited responsibilities. Bank of America was a non-elite bank. Three years later I was made a department head and then the youngest vice-president in American banking at the Bank of California. Bank of California was previously the elite hereditary bank on the West Coast.

By 1970, Bob founded Public Advocates with Ford Foundation money. By then we had missed the period of elite hereditary Jew hate on the West Coast by a few years. In 1970 we got together to bring the first anti-discrimination employment case against the Bank of California on behalf of women and minorities. We won. It was the biggest and most far reaching employment settlement in American history, then or in the future. It was accepted by every major American bank and financial institution. (What we did in less than one year exceeded everything Ruth Bader Ginsberg [great hero of women on the Left] did in her whole life.)

We both continued to bring about major, nearly revolutionary, changes in American life over the next 35 years. We never encountered noticeable Jew hate in our activities.

Why did Jew-hate abate for this forty-one year period? Why this interregnum in American Jew hate?

I ascribe the dramatic diminution to four radical changes.

• First, the American hereditary elite, strongly embedded with upper-class Jew hate, fell apart in the late 1950s. Here, here, and here. 
• Second, the hippie movement that was growing in numbers by 1965 was fiercely egalitarian, West Coast based and had no Jew-hate.
• Third, a major source of Jew hate was, for a millennium, promoted by the Roman Catholic Church, which held the Second Ecumenical Vatican Council under Pope John 22^nd . The Council officially ended Jew-hate in the Church.
• Fourth, Martin Luther King Jr promoted his strong love of Jews and Israel in the early 1960s.

It all ended. By 2005, neither Bob nor I could give an important speech on nearly any American college campus nor in any important venue because Jew hate had become widespread with anti-Zionism and Jew hate. We would face protests promoted by BDS (Boycott,Divest and Sanction) and the growth of the Farrakhan church in the black community.

I am fortunate to have lived in America when I did.

 

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