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Evil Personified – Edgar J Hoover – 2014

January 20, 2025 – 2:55 am

The FBI waged psychological warfare against Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta. Letter such as the one above, which suggested he take his life, were constantly sent to the family at the behest of the FBI director. J. Edgar Hoover was an evil man and his legacy haunts the FBI to this day. Not […]

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Palm Beach Sunday

December 12, 2024 – 1:23 am

From 2008 In April 2008 I lived nowhere. My apartment in the East Village had been taken over by the faceless management company. I had lived with my wife and daughter in Pattaya until this April. We had had good times and bad times. It was home, then again I considered anyplace home once you […]

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Bad Mouthing the Eagle

November 27, 2024 – 4:47 am

Benjamin Franklin never proposed the turkey for the national bird. It is a myth, however the turkey of his era was nothing like the domesticated bird slaughtered for Thanksgiving. The wild turkey was a cunning wood creature living in large communes of fellow avians. Huge flocks of brightly plumed turkeys clouded the skies. Benjamin Franklin […]

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Fifty-Nine Years Later

November 22, 2024 – 5:23 am

Today no one in New York had mentioned JFK’s bad day in Dallas. Neither the BBC, New York Times, nor Al-Jazeera wrote a single line about the November 22, 1963 tragedy, proving the old adage that as you get old you forget and as you get older you are forgotten. Fifty-nine years might be a […]

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The Criminal Paradise

November 21, 2024 – 12:39 pm
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