The mass media acts as if police abusing citizens is necessary and normal. The media is notoriously willing to overlook hard evidence of police brutality, especially when there are political implications. The fact that police can legally use lethal force makes them so terrifying to average people, that just the suggestion of making a policeman mad makes Americans tremble with fear. This article by an ex-chief of police for the City of San Jose, California, comments on the situation in Los Angeles, where the Sheriff outright runs the county.

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Before the Swiss got caught ripping off their Jewish depositors, another hunt was under way to investigate the whereabouts of a virtual mountain of priceless stolen art. Major museums, it turns out, have been sitting on important works by major artists, which were known to be stolen by the Nazis during the occupation of Europe. The selective memory of the Austrian and German museum curators labeled as "unclaimed" works that had been outright purchased from the Nazis. This article lets in some light on the darker aspects of the art world...

Is it okay to break the law "for a cause", or is it still a crime that must be punished? When Bostonian radicals broke onto an English ship and stole and destroyed tea, it was vividly portrayed to succeeding generations as the Boston Tea Party. Now it appears that some of our contemporary youth are taking the lessons of the Revolution at their word, and are vandalizing property. Of course, when slavery was legal, and slaves were fleeing from their masters, they were also fugitives from the law. This article by a local Dana Point reporter highlights the absurdist outlook of the powers-that-be...

When Black people express their distrust of white people due to carry-over after-effects of slavery, there is an instant defensive reaction on the part of most white people, who are quick to disassociate themselves from what is universally regarded as a morally repugnant institution, slavery. But the concrete reality of its effects have transcended time, and are being visited upon all Americans. And in order to achieve some civil peace, it is vital that white people come to understand the real Black experience in America. This article is about a little-known riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. In 12 hours, 3,000 Black Americans were killed in one of the worst outbreaks of racist violence in the history of the republic. Who expected Bosnia to be nothing more than Tulsa revisited?

In one of the great campaigns to prove that America is still a world-power, all the massive military might of the United States was focused on miniscule Haiti. Yet after ousting the military junta, a cache of documents disappeared into American hands, which became the focus of a conflict, as the newly restored Haitian government attempted to prosecute the terrorists who overthrew the democratically-elected Aristide Government. As usual, the Federal Government of the U.S. republic was double-dealing, and using unsavory connections in Haiti as a "counterbalance" against Aristide...

Does the Federal Government control the internet? IT SEEMS TO THINK SO! Last year, Internet authorities tentatively approved usage of several new domain types, to supplement the now familiar domains .COM and .GOV. In the Federal republic's continuing insecurity, it now is trying to usurp control over the domain naming system, as came to light from an email received from one of the official new name registration agencies of the Internet. The European Community released a harsh criticism of the United States Government today, 26 February, 1998, but true to the censorship controlling American mass media, NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN RELEASED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE...

As Europe merges, and Germany becomes the paramount European superpower, the same banks that profited from the Holocaust -- who never suffered any stigma from being money-launderers for Hitler -- are about to merge and form the world's second largest bank. Far from being victims of Hitler's Third Reich, Switzerland grew fat and rich off of the Reich's plunderings, and outright refused to return the loot to its original owners. Now these banks rely on American regulators to give their merger the seal of approval for it to go through. America, where 100,000 survivors of the Holocaust live, who are entitled to the return of their stolen money, and who now have a lawsuit pending in the State of New York. As the outright collaboration of the Swiss with the Nazi occupation of Europe has come to light, the reluctance of the Swiss to address the issues of stolen deposits has started to crumble...

Thelma Williams' family has been in America for 375 years. How long does a family have to live somewhere, to be considered "native-born?" This has become relevant especially to the aboriginal American population, who suffered through one of history's worst-case scenarios, as the conquering European civilization treated aboriginal culture as if it was insignificant. Yet as a result of centuries of immigration, there is today a mixture of various ethnic groups that all have an equal claim on the American identity, and this article by Helen O'Neill highlights the importance of the human family, as we see ourselves in the tales of the Tucker family.

The Spanish-American War took place when Imperialism was still considered a positive thing. Senior imperialists considered it a "splendid little war," disregarding the two years the U.S. Army had to spend "pacifying" the newly conquered colonials. In this review of "Empire by Default," the reviewer refreshes our memory about the beginning of the American Century, and what it really cost us to become a World Power. Very relevant as one of the country's most political presidents leads the nation into a war against Iraq...

You thought Clinton had trouble, just wait until you hear what the politicians have cooking in Iowa... According to a proposed law, the Governor having sex with his wife in the Governor's Mansion, would be against the law! Just when you thought the mud couldn't get any deeper.

This article is a Perspective by Volker Ruehe, Defense Minister of Germany. He basically commits the awesome power of the re-unified Germany, to the unification of Europe, and NATO. Even the faintest echo of strength on the part of Germany rings with the ghosts of two World Wars. There is a sense that the German quest for power is not something confined to one generation. Of course, there is no better way to understand the Germans, than to let them speak in their own words...

Many Americans believe that if they work hard, and are honest, that they can rely on one thing: At least they OWN their own home! The reality, that anybody with the money could come along and bribe the local government into condemning and taking the most important asset they own, was beyond comprehension. Now it has happened in Hurst, Texas. A community was bulldozed in order to build a mall. But don't think that you're town is secure; this show is on the road, ready to come to a neighborhood near you!

Described as an "occupying army," LAPD suffers from endless internal struggles for power. But its real struggle is to preserve its supremacy within the general bureaucracy that controls the Los Angeles Basin. This article is a statement by a member of the senior staff at the LAPD, and it reflects criticism of the current Chief's efforts to take over the policing and law enforcement duties of all the other city agencies. Hear it from the horse's mouth...

Abraham Lincoln is the plaster saint of the slavemaster republic. By washing the country in blood, he tried to expatiate the sins of the Founding Fathers. The bone-chilling reality of Lincoln is far-away from the whitewashed image of the Heroic Saint passed down to school-children in their lessons. Yet like all people, Mr. Lincoln was a complex and enigmatic presence. This Review of a book on Lincoln reveals insights into the reality of the 16th dictator of the republic. The leader who led a million Americans to their graves to save the Union... The Federal Government.

Little kids in the western world are introduced to money in the form of an allowance. Before children can spell their own names, they know what money is, or at least what it can buy. Families get into regular arguments because the youth don't understand the "value of money..." But money comes easier to some families, because it is not directly related to how worthy or virtuous any individual is. In fact, some very undeserving individuals wind up with loads of money. The first order of business, if any justice is ever to be applied to the field of economics, is to understand the underlying forces that constitute the market. It's not pretty, but it's insightful... This article looks inside Wall Street.

The Special Prosecutor laws came out of the Watergate era, when the Cold War Police-State was at its apogee. The two chief terrorists of the era both passed from the scene about the same time, J. Edgar Hoover and Richard Nixon. You could hear the sighs of relief across the country... The FBI ran the paper-shredder day and night until all the files with evidence of their complicity in break-ins, cover-ups and frame-ups was safely destroyed. Hoover kept files on all the key figures in the country, and imagined himself as the embodiment of America, one of the most powerful unelected officials of all time, the ultimate bureaucrat. Hoover's death was followed by the resignation of the demagogic President Nixon, after he was caught in the act of obstructing justice, and it became clear that the support needed to impeach him in the Congress was standing by, ready to do just that. Morale among the partisans of the republic was at its lowest. In order to restore confidence in the republic, which was being led by President Ford -- a man who had never won a national election, and who was virtually appointed as president -- the Independent Counsel statute was enacted. Of course, its true purpose was not to weed out corruption, but to give the appearance that something was being done about it anytime some of it came to light; of which, judging by how many prosecutors have been appointed, there must be an ample supply. In this article, an AP reporter analyzes the history of the Independent Counsel statute, and its future.

The significance of the Los Angeles Riot is still not fully understood in academic circles. The riot was the worst act of resistance committed by the American population against the government in the history of the republic, and it deserves to be remembered as the Anti-Government Riot of 1992. Additionally, the riot was not confined to the southern California area, as riots broke out across the United States. In Los Angeles, however, the hub of the chaos, approximately 50,000 Angelenos went on a three day rampage, and it wasn't because they were a bunch of hooligans who wanted new appliances for free. The only circumstances in which people will risk the safety of their own persons, especially on the scale required of a bona fide riot, is because they are animated by an injustice that just went TOO FAR...

The issue of American citizenship and nationality is the main controversy that many of our current social crises revolve around. For generations, the black people, the Asians, the Mexican and Hispanic people, and the Native Americans have all felt shut out of the American community. This article is from the LA Times Book Review on two books that discuss the issue of American nationality, and immigration laws, as reviewed by an Assistant U.S. Attorney moonlighting as a book reviewer. This article starts a much needed dialogue about just who is an American, and what that means... Of course, this is just the start...

Earlier we heard about the whining of public officials that the common law supporters were contaminating all the "good criminals." Now things are taking a darker turn, as public officials find that they are being slapped with millions of dollars worth of bogus liens, that they have to take the time to resolve, or they lose their credit, and a host of other problems. There is an irony involved, when you realize that the American people were brought up with the larger-than-life mythology of the Revolutionaries, who broke the law to set up the republic. Gosh, where does it end?

While all the arm-chair economists and "freedom-fighters" try to figure out how to liberate the human race, a humble professor in Bangladesh is DOING IT. Over 22 years, Professor Yunus has lent 2.3 million poor people $2 billion dollars, at a remarkable 98% repayment rate! These insightful articles point out the political nature of the obstacles Yunus has faced, as he has developed the Grameen Bank into a model for Third World development. Of course, it means helping individuals instead of corporations, which is why his efforts to help more people with his exciting proposals are experiencing a "glass ceiling"...

Did you think that corruption was invented with Bill Clinton? Think again! The original corruption of the republic started when the Continental Congress had to supply an army in the field, and army contractors sold the republic rotten foodstuff; in the Civil War of the 1860s, contractors sold the US Govt uniforms that came apart in the rain! In Los Angeles, corruption is a time-honored tradition, as this editorial points out. Of course, the fact that most big cities do business the same way, means that LA is not an isolated instance, but a model for what is going on locally through-out the United States.

HMOs, or managed healthcare organizations, are the latest gimmick in the provision of healthcare, making it possible to package medical services as a corporate product. When individuals paid their bills directly to doctors, the bills reflected real costs; then insurance companies took over the whole area of health care, and slowly the bills crept up, because the billing agencies recognized that they were dealing with other institutions (separate from the actual party who received the services) which would pay any amount. In-depth analysis of medical fraud reveals that the perpetrators were not the patients, but the doctors! (What is ironic is that the answer of the politicians for the healthcare crisis was to create a nationalized HMO! ) Yet the fact remains that an enormous segment of the population has no medical coverage, and that part that has coverage is getting rationed healthcare, which is what is asserted in this article on the latest controversy over HMOs. It's sad that in the most scientifically advanced country in the world, Americans are subjected to the most cruel symptoms of a class-system, as they are forced to accept second-rate and even third-rate medical care.

The Department of Labor, it appears, does not carry out the laws against child labor the Congress enacted, but instead makes up the law as it goes along, hoping no one notices. The Congress mandated that companies caught exploiting children for labor should be fined $10,000, and all goods made by the children should be seized; the Department of Labor, all at its own discretion, rarely fines the companies more than $1000, and goods are never seized.

"Correctional" facilities constitute one of the fastest growing professional fields in the United States, with a prisoner population in excess of 1.6 million Americans. In this case an inmate went on a hunger strike claiming the prison officials were violating a court order that required the prison to provide the inmate with meals that complied with his religious beliefs. When this hunger strike resulted in the death of the inmate, all kinds of questions came up, as did a massive body of paperwork from the prison that all basically accused the prisoner of committing suicide. Jailhouse "suicides" are common among minority communities, even for the most minor traffic infractions and violations. As the police state fully matures, and the U.S. assumes the full pretense of the most powerful state on the Earth, with more of its own citizens held in jail than any other country in the world, it should be a matter of interest to the individual how inmates are treated, for there but by the grace of God COULD BE YOU NEXT... or your loved one.

The collapse of the Asian money markets did not come as a total surprise to the bankers on Wall Street. The weaknesses in the Asian markets were an "open secret" to insiders last summer. But the old-fashioned "runs" on hard goods in Indonesia spooked investors, and even the wild-eyed optimists (who, not-so-coincidentally also earn their livings selling stock), had to concede that the American economy could feel negative effects from the Asian financial collapse. The U.S. Government cannot house and feed a few destitute American homeless, our own native sons and daughters, but it has no problem raising and allocating billions of dollars to salvage the authoritarian regimes it has installed throughout the world in the now-defunct battle against Communism.

In the middle of the Federal Government's holy war against drugs, the voters of Arizona and California became apostates and enacted laws allowing the use of medical marijuana. (In Arizona the law now allows the use of marijuana, cocaine, heroine, methamphetamine, and LSD, with a doctor's prescription). The law enforcement bureaucracy of the State of California went into a full state of denial, and then completely abdicated responsibility for drafting guidelines for carrying Proposition 215 into effect, the new "law of the land" allowing marijuana use for medical purposes. Now an appellate court has issued a ruling changing the rules of the game, but the battle is far from over. One county supervisor has even proposed that the county government of San Mateo County become a supplier of medical marijuana to patients!

A journalist in Mexico City discusses the forces bringing democracy to Mexico. Two important figures in the Mexican media are leaving the scene, and this journalist examines the implications of the departure of these two powerful individuals. More significantly, the similarities between Mexico and the U.S. are startling. The description of the way the Mexican media monopoly controls the Mexican society is hauntingly familiar to the situation existent in the United States.

If you "read" USA Today, the newspaper in which colorful graphics replace hard information, you may have seen the 1" of text about the primitive state of medicine in Los Angeles County Jails, the largest jail operating in the United States. This is the whole article from which the USA Today excerpt is derived. If you thought the LAPD's handling of the DNA evidence in the O.J. Simpson case was bad, (causing the case against O.J. to be lost), it will shock you when you find out how horrific the state of medicine is within the correctional institutions of the republic.

Noam Chomsky recently made the statement on C-SPAN that in Harlem, New York City, conditions that are Third World-like can be found immediately adjacent to the splendor of the rich and well-to-do. This illustrates the same incongruities of the 1920s, before the "Great" Depression, when modern technology made the lives of the rich easier, while the lot of the poor laboring masses continued its downward spiral. Today the statistics supposedly reflect an improving economy, yet the demands on soup kitchens and food pantries have skyrocketed. THE AMERICAN PRESS ABSOLUTELY REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE REPUBLIC'S ROLE IN THE IMPOVERISHMENT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

While the debate continues as to what kind of government is the "best," countries with governments hundreds of years old continue on, stable as ever, even providing their people with most of the legal guarantees we are indoctrinated to associate with "modern republics." The king of Thailand is one of the great personages of our time, yet he is largely unknown in America, only because of the pro-republican, anti-monarchical prejudices of the U.S. press. You will be surprised at how popular the longest-reigning monarch is in the hearts of his countrymen.

The first vice cop was a self-appointed zealot named Anthony Comstock. In the true spirit of the fascist republic, puritans like Comstock erected the machinery of an Orwellian terrorist state. We live with this today in the endless campaigns of police and fanatics who think that all sex that is not within the confines of marriage is immoral, and who seek to control the private acts of adults. The only "war" with possibly more casualties than the "Drug War" is the War on Vice, and here you are given a vivid (PG-rated) history of this war. A war that -- like all the Federal Government's social "wars" -- has as its primary target none other than AMERICAN nationals.

As the stock market soars to unprecedented levels, merger-mania is taking hold of the rich and famous... But not everything is coming up roses in the free-for-all, grab-it-while-you-can world of big business. As the world market opens up, a select group of mega-corporations are emerging that will dominate the future global economy; or will they? Some business historians don't think the current fad of acquisitions will result in a leaner, more efficient economy, instead, they see corporate lawyers cashing in on the mergers, earning multi-million dollar fees putting the mergers together, and then when, a few years later the mergers collapse, the same corporate lawyers earn the big bucks overseeing the dismembering of the conglomerates. This article addresses the reality of the "urge to merge," and how it effects you...

This Associated Press expose, based on a Rutgers University study of the status of illegal child labor in the United States, reveals the existence of a genuine problem. As we enter a new year of crime and violence, much of it over money, and an unwholesome obsession with money that is instilled by the schools into children who are allowed to remain illiterate, this study emphasizes the need for more sophisticated data collection regarding the U.S. labor force. As major U.S. corporations pay their CEOs mega-million dollar salary and bonus packages, while firing long-term employees, appropriating their pensions, and hiring underage and illegal workers, we must ask ourselves if the cost to the society is worth the price...

The key to any police state is the way it treats its citizens, and the fascist republic is no exception. The McCarthy era endured, officially, for a mere four years, but the policies of fear and repression were carried out for fifty years, not only after the demise of Sen. McCarthy, but of his twin-in-terror, J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover's FBI had a list of 10,000 ordinary workers, all of whom were blacklisted WITHOUT TRIALS for suspicion. Hoover was the Himmler of the Republic, the man responsible for the American Gestapo. And the tyranny goes on...

This article by Helen Caldicott, a founding member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, illustrates the dangers posed by nuclear power to the human community. Nuclear power is not cheap, or clean, or even efficient. Additionally, it's lethal...

The Montana Freemen may not be winning any cases in court, but they are driving the federal and state judiciary bananas. AP reporter Tom Laceky describes the antics that are making life miserable for the wardens of the police state.

Are you one of those people who blame domestic American problems on immigrants? You might be surprised to learn the real human costs associated with propping up the INS bureaucracy. This AP article provides a brief overview of the true costs of a militarized frontier...

Now the Nixon tapes are open to public scrutiny, and the whole episode is being exposed in Dick Nixon's own words. The only problem for America is that it must bear the burden of a corrupt system of government, while thinking that it is the most advanced. This review on the book "Abuse of Power" gives an in-depth view of the values of the run-of-the-mill president; everyone in the Know realizes that all Nixon did was he got caught. Think of that when the next round of Congressional hearings start... And if you want to know what to look for, read THE CURSE OF THE PRESIDENCY.

The pensioned bureaucrats of the anti-drug civil service have released another set of statistics alleging that Americans reduced their consumption of illegal drugs. Where do these statistics come from?

In actions reminiscent of the 1960s, a concert at Doheny State Park, in Dana Point, Ca., was broken up by police, who two members of the band The Monkees charged formed a "riot line and advanced on us...", AFTER THE CONCERT HAD ALREADY BROKEN UP! This article by Dana Point News reporter Dennis Kaiser does not take the civil rights of the Monkees or their fans seriously, and the police stand behind their heavy-handed actions. PART OF THE EVIDENCE OF THE POLICE STATE SERIES.

Using just 6% of the land mass of the United States, enough biomass could be cultivated to completely eliminate the dependence of the U.S. on foreign oil. Biomass conversion could make it possible for the Third World to industrialize, without destroying the environment. The only problem is that the "free market system" of the republic has sold out the American national interest, for the benefit of the Seven Sisters, the multinational oil cartel. This short article by Lynn Osburn discusses the issue of biomass conversion, and the most controversial source of biomass in existence, hemp.

Censorship in America has never been a job of the state. The vigilante mentality of revolutionary society instilled into institutions the discipline of self-restraint. The era of the Witchhunts and the Blacklist was one of the bleekest in recent history. Ironically, there are various parallels to today, as the right-wing enjoys a resurgence, and history repeats itself. This cogent article sums up the entire history of the blacklist in Hollywood, and it underscores the fact that power has influence in Hollywood, and even the principles of profit are not always the top priority of the entertainment industry.

This editorial addresses the taboo subject of racism in America. While the partisans argue that there is little or no racism in the United States, the victims dare to put the evidence in their face. The powerful in America have none of the noblesse oblige that has made the class system bearable in Europe. Ideally no society would be divided by social classes, but the reality is that America -- with slavery abolished virtually within living memory -- is wracked by social tensions that are the by-product of a caste system. This editorial examines the so-called "white" race, to find that what we uniformly call the "white" race are the peoples of a variety of cultural traditions, not a single ethnic group. It reminds us that the phenomena of modern racism had its genesis with the colonial movement that stirred Europe, as a part of cold-blooded efforts to sustain the political control of the colonies in the face of local, native opposition. A new perspective worthy of attention...

Charles S. Maier, the author of this Opinion piece, teaches modern European history at Harvard. His most recent book is "Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany." This article examines the genuine zeal of the civil servants of Vichy France, which actively collaborated with Hitler and the Third Reich. It turns out that there were whole national populations that cooperated with Hitler, who refuted this affiliation after the war, when it was unpopular, and who disappeared through the collaboration of whole bureaucracies. It is well known that fleeing Nazi's had use of Swiss passports, Red Cross passports, and Vatican passports, to facilitate their entrance into South America. The head of the United Nations, a former President of Austria, was an "unrepentant Nazi," who served in the German Nazi army; how many records did he order sealed, to help out his old compatriots? Anyone who thinks it could never happen again, think again. Maier hits the pertinent issues with accuracy, precision, and chilling insight.

The U.S. now has 1.6 million of its own citizens in prison and jail, meaning that the U.S. has more of its own citizens held in penal servitude than any other country on the Earth. Americans were horrified at the Nazi concentration camps, where slaves worked for major German industries; and our own contemporaries denounce China for using the slave labor of prisoners. But now prisoners in the U.S. are being "employed" as slaves for businessmen at hourly rates that range from minimum wage to .18 cents an hour. In this article by Associated Press reporter Dawn Fallik, the use of slaves is accounted for as the result of the public's demand that prisoners no longer have access to recreation, but instead are put to work. The reality, that public demand is generated in response to the kind of reporting the media engages in, is never examined too closely, because it implies that public opinion is being engineered...

What is a traditional nation? What is the nature of ethnicity? Why is a republic the antithesis of tradition? If you are interested in more than the conventional information loop the mass media is obsessed by, and want to dig into the inner-most depths of American nationhood, this Archival document examines the founding of the traditional American nation, and what that means to the average American national.

In Dana Point the City Council has approved the spending of $83,000 to fund a full-time uniformed policeman to "assist in educating" students. The end of the article highlights a letter to the editor of an actual American teenager, openly speculating that if perhaps students were treated better, they might not be so angry and hostile.

Federal Government Exaggerates Threat of Militia Movement