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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Lenin’s Wife
Everyone knows of Lenin. His body is still on display in the great Kremlin square, once known as Red Square, for those with a bit of ghoulishness in their souls to see. His name and statues have been taken down … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged education, history, illiteracy, krupskaya, Lenin, peasants, revolution, russia, Siberia, Soviet Union, Trotsky
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Into Exile
I walk the old streets and realize they tore down the Endicott Theater to put up a savings bank in the same space where Poppa and I saw “Blood and Sand”. And Fat Tony’s Luncheonette where we’d stroll for a … Continue reading
Forsaken
Sit not in your darkened room alone and brooding feeling forsaken by the Fates the sounds of the living rising from the streets. Mourn not uselessly your luck that’s failing now; your plans, your hopes all gone awry. Instead prepare … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged bidding farewell, depression, forsaken. lost love, going on, Hope, music in the streets, poetry, procession of the living
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Flint and Small Government
I read an interesting quote a few days ago. “Flint is a conservative’s idea of smaller government”. Boy does that resonate. “The city, after years of cutbacks, was placed under a state appointed emergency manager in 2011 who had the … Continue reading
An Italian City in Africa
There is a dreamscape city in Africa. A time warp city where you walk in 1930’s Italy, where the buildings are in the “modernist” future style befitting the capital of the new Fascist Italian Empire in Africa. It is still there … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1964, Asmara, fascism, italian style city, most beautiful in africa, planned city
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Fascism and America’s Ruling Elites
A Repost Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle Awarded to Henry Ford by Adolph Hitler – 1938 So it’s the 1930s and Hitler and Mussolini, not to mention Franco have established nazism / fascism in Europe. Hitler … Continue reading
Posted in history, Uncategorized
Tagged America's ruling class, anti-semitism, Charles Lindbergh, Dearborn Press, fascism, FDR, Ford Motors, General Motors, Henry Ford, history, IBM, Joe Kennedy, national socialism, naziism, Order of the German Eagle, Prescott Bush, Tom Watson, William Randolph Hearst
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Eight Days Till Iowa
Well in eight days the voting begins in Iowa and the Sunday news talk shows feature the Donald and Bernie (not together!) putting their talking points out there for our consumption. The Donald is back on top over Ted Cruz … Continue reading
