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Harrison Cady (1877–1970) “Peter Rabbit happened to be looking out of the dear Old Briar-patch as the young Fox ran past” (1955) Original illustration for the tale "Young Reddy is Stung," published in the New York Harold Tribune, Inc., in Thornton W. Burgess' "Burgess Bedtime Story" syndicated column, November 15, 1955

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The New York papers—those wet publications so despised by the Anti-Saloon League—promptly embraced Norris’s report as evidence of a government policy gone haywire. “Prohibition in this area is a complete failure,” the Harold Tribune’s editorial page declared, “enforcement a travesty, the public a victim of poisonous liquor.” Columnist Heywood Broun wrote in the New York World, “The Eighteenth is the only amendment which carries the death penalty.” And the Evening World described the federal government as a mass poisoner, noting that no administration had been more successful in “undermining the health of its own people.”

—The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum

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Kindness in the Time of Cholera

I’m still up in the air about the whole thing in terms of where this potential catastrophe may be heading. But what seems beyond dispute to me is that we should be heeding the advice of those wise experts specifically whose counsel is to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. And equally clear to me is that we should be insisting unwaveringly that the government put the responsibility and authority to deal with this looming crisis squarely and solely in the hands of scientists, public health officials, physicians, and epidemiologists…and as far as possible from the hands of politicians.  

One of the most intelligent essays about the coronavirus outbreak that I’ve read, by Donald G. McNeil Jr., was published in the New York Times just this week (click here) and I recommend it highly to you. Basically, he observes that there are two ways to deal with a looming pandemic. There’s the modern method of bringing to bear the full force of modern technology to identify the infected, to perfect a vaccine, to develop new strains of drugs to deal with the already-ill, etc. And then there’s the medieval method of locking the infected inside their own cities, closing borders, forbidding international travel or commerce, and quarantining people who may have inadvertently been exposed to the virus until the danger passes and the infected either recover or die.

The latter approach, the one McNeil calls “medieval,” surely does have an old-fashioned feel to it. And it equally surely features a harshness that will make most moderns uncomfortable. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t work and hasn’t worked. President Benjamin Harrison, for example, apparently successful kept America safe from an outbreak of virulent cholera in 1892, for example, by closing American harbors to any ships arriving from Germany, the epicenter of that particular epidemic in Europe. But, as McNeil goes on to muse, just how possible would that approach be today really? The word “quarantine” derives from the Italian word for “forty” and came to have its current meaning because the Venetian Republic had the very successful idea during the Black Death plague epidemic in the mid-fourteenth century of requiring that all ships arriving in their port be isolated for a full forty days before their crew could come ashore or their cargo be unloaded. But Venice has one harbor and its masters had the ability absolutely to control the comings and goings of boats in and out of their city, whereas it is very hard to imagine that approach being fully successful in our globalized world of highly porous borders and uncontrolled (and uncontrollable) interstate travel. Nor am I only theorizing here. The Chinese actually have turned Wuhan, the city where the virus first erupted into the world, into a single huge quarantine zone. But the virus behind COVID-19 is still spreading dramatically in the world, both inside and outside of China.

The Jewish world has yet another way to combat a pandemic, one that was the subject of a fascinating piece on the Lehrhaus website that I read just last week. The essay, by Jeremy Brown, the director of the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institute of Health, concerns a long-forgotten ceremony developed specifically to address the possibility of epidemiological catastrophe: the shvartze chasaneh, literally “the black wedding.” (To read the full essay, click here.) The name, derived from the fact that brides normally wear white to their own weddings, was intended to suggest that the wedding in question is not just the union of an affianced couple eager to wed under a chuppah, but something else entirely—something rooted not in love and devotion, but in fear and community-wide anxiety.

As far as anyone knows, the last time anyone participated in a shvartze chasaneh was in 1918 at the peak of the Spanish flu epidemic. I’ve heard people mention that specific epidemic many times in the last few weeks, but even by today’s standards the numbers are still astounding. Five hundred million people around the world were infected, about a third of the entire population of the world. (Click here for more on that almost unbelievable number.) The death toll is estimated by most authorities to have been somewhere between forty and fifty million people, but some authorities put it as high as one hundred million. Life expectancy in the United States dropped by twelve years after just one year of the epidemic. This was a terrible time, the cataclysmic coda to the orgy of senseless killing that was the First World War. And the pandemic lasted for three full years, from the beginning of 1918 through the end of 1920.

The idea of the shvartze chasaneh itself is a simple one: the community seeks out a single man who is disabled, orphaned, and/or impoverished and arranges for him publicly to marry a similar destitute and handicapped woman. The ceremony takes place, as would any normal Jewish marriage, under a chuppah. But this chuppah is set up in a cemetery—perhaps as a way of inviting the dead to participate in the simchah—and then the community showers the couple with gifts, including gifts of cash, in the hope that this great act of kindness towards the especially needy will somehow avert the plague.

To document his research, Brown uncovered an account of one of these “black weddings” that took place in Philadelphia in 1918 during the height of the Spanish flu epidemic. Citing from a contemporary newspaper account published in the Public Ledger of Philadelphia, Brown reports that one Fanny Jacobs and one Harold Rosenberg were married just behind the first row of graves in the Jewish cemetery near Cobbs Creek, Pennsylvania, on Friday afternoon on October 25, 1918. A certain Rabbi Lipschitz presided; a full thousand spectators showed up to witness the union. And then, to quote the newspaper story directly, “spectators filed solemnly past the couple and made them presents of money in sums from ten cents to a hundred dollars, according to the means and circumstances of the donor, until more than $1,000 had been given.” And the point of the operation was also made explicit in the newspaper account: so that “the attention of God be called to the affliction of their fellows if the most humble man and woman among them should join in marriage in the presence of the dead.”

Nor was this something invented on the spot to deal with the influenza epidemic. The earliest report of a shvartze chasaneh goes back to 1785, when one was performed in the presence of two of the greatest hasidic masters, Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk and Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Halevi Horowitz (the latter better known today as the Seer of Lublin), and was intended to address an outbreak of cholera. Brown reports that similar wedding ceremonies took place for orphaned teenagers in Jerusalem and Tzfat in 1865 during an infestation of locusts that threatened to destroy the food source for the entire country. (The picture is of the one in Jerusalem.) They must have been quite something to see, those ceremonies: the one in Jerusalem took place amidst the graves on the Mount of Olives and the one in Tzfat took place in the old Jewish cemetery there, where the chuppah was set up between the graves of Rabbi Isaac Luria and Rabbi Joseph Karo, each in his own way the spiritual leader of an entire generation of Jewish people. Other such ceremonies took place in Berdichev in 1866 and at Opatow in 1892, which town Joan and I actually visited last summer. 

The Philadelphia ceremony inspired at least one further attempt to ward off the flu epidemic: on November 11, 1918—the very day of the armistice that ended the war—a similar wedding was held in Winnipeg, duly reported in the Winnipeg Evening Tribune under the headline “Hebrews Hold Wedding of Death to Halt Flu.”

I do not think—at least not yet—that we should consider going this route at the current time with respect to COVID-19. But I do think that we could be inspired—and profoundly—by the idea that underlying our response to what could conceivably turn into a world-wide pandemic should be the same sense Jews of a different day had that one responds to the possibility of disaster by being kind and generous, by reaching out formally and publicly to the most needy, by focusing on the future and not solely on the calamity at hand, and by refusing to abandon our most basic values merely because we suddenly find ourselves negotiating straits that even a few months ago were unknown to any of us. The notion that the correct response to looming catastrophe lies in deeds of compassion and charity is very resonant with me personally. My plan for the moment is to wash my hands carefully and often, to leave the real decision making to the kind of public health experts who actually know what they are talking about, and to try to avert the worst by ramping up Joan and my gifts of charity to the poor and the most needy, and I encourage you to do the same!

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Where Love Has Gone, 1964. I rented streaming viewing of it, tonight, on YouTube for $3.99.

What melodrama! With adult themes, scandalous, for 1964. An adult soap opera movie, with 2 big stars. Bette Davis was only about 7-8 years older than Miss Hayward, too young in real life, to have been Susan's Mother. Oh, the liberties Hollywood took, with reality, It's all an illusion.

Bette was always good at playing unlikeable characters, she did villains well. This is seen, here, in this film. It's from a Harold Robbins book, and you can tell that the MPAA board of censorship had relaxed their policies a bit, by 1964. This movie has lots of talk about sex, sexual innuendo, oh my! This was unheard of in those times, in Hollywood movies. Things changed dramatically, about 1967, and the old censorship of films, by the MPAA changed and the now-familiar lettered film rating system began.

Some notes from the page of the film, on YouTube.

"Bette Davis sinks her teeth into her role... and devours it with a style glorious to behold." -Judith Crist, The New York Herald Tribune. When fiery Academy Award-winning actresses Bette Davis and Susan Hayward square off in the same movie, they better have a film worthy of their pyrotechnics. That's just what they found in Where Love Has Gone, a torrid story of passion, lies, and murder based on Harold Robbins' sensational bestseller. Hayword plays a famed sculptress who lives by no rules but her own. Davis portrays her domineering mother. Mike Connors (TV's Mannix) is her estranged husband. And 20-year-old Joey Heatherton costars as Hayward and Connors' teenaged daughter, who brings all three generations into conflict when she's accused of murdering her mother's gigolo lover. Possibly inspired by the notorious Lana Turner - Johnny Stampanato case, Where Love Has Gone is melodrama at its most riveting.

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highlights from the history of Riverdale

Riverdale is founded in 1680, after the Viscount Lord Alfred Blossom is run out of Tarrytown for blasphemy, usury, and “general mischief”. He manages to sweet talk about fifteen families into striking out west with him. 65% of his band dies that first winter. Among those who survive  (such as the carpentr William Kellermann, notary Richard Lodge, and farmer Harold Andrews, and their families) are the sires of many families that still dwell in Riverdale today.

The next year, there is a truly bountiful harvest, the river is clogged with fish, the woods with game, and every child born in perfect health. This leads to the persistent legend that Lord Blossom struck a deal with a devil in return for the town’s prosperity 

In 1714, the aging Alfred Blossom strikes a deal with the local Iroquois granting him sole logging rights in the section of forest past the west bank of Sweetwater River. He begins to harvest and sell the sap of the maple trees therein.

The town is briefly occupied by French troops in 1756. Captain de Pelltier writes several letters from this post directly to the Marquis de Montcalm (when appeals to intermediate authorities fail) complaining that “the people of this town are a deeply troublesome, irascible sort who love nothing more than contention, and have proven a deeply deleterious influence upon the men under my command”, and requesting immediate transfer. 

In 1763, the aging Jonathan Blossom dies. The funeral services are disrupted by Franklin Lodge, who demands to know “if Blossom was so great, then why is he dead?” and then stomps on the ground and asks aloud: “how’s the temperature down there?” 

In 1775, the Viscount Lord Lawrence Blossom ostentatiously renounces his title and noble airs as a show of support for the burgeoning Patriot cause. He is appointed a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, but wakes up with a headache. He instead pays an impoverished, recently immigrated Welshman named Gareth Jones one pound and a new fur hat to go in his stead.

Jones gets halfway to Philadelphia when he is attacked by a pack of wolves, and spends a day hiding in a tree. For his failure to complete the journey, Blossom repossesses the fur hat. 

In 1779, the three-day Battle of Riverdale blackens the reputation of the Patriots and provides much fodder for the loyalist propaganda mill after three captured British regulars and one Hessian mercenary are boiled alive in maple syrup. Colonel Blossom disclaims responsibility for the outrage. Said poor souls are said to haunt the region to this day.

in 1818, author Washington Irving happens upon record of the incident and the resultant ghost stories while researching the folktales of Upstate New York in the interest of his ‘Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. He ultimately decides ‘the Boiled Maple Man” is less frightening a specter than “the Headless Horseman.”

In 1792, young Henry Jones strikes out east, begging and bartering his way across the sea towards France in the throes of revolution, animated by a fit of youthful Republican fervor. He reaches Paris and narrowly avoids the guillotine in 1793, after an impromptu recitation of Rousseau’s ‘Emil’ backwards convinces the revolutionary tribunal he is not of sound mind.

In 1808 Jones returns to Riverdale, having spent the better part of the past 15 years traipsing around Europe with Napoleon’s armies. He writes a moderately successful account of his adventures, and promptly squanders the proceeds in a failed business venture involving a poultry farm

In the early 1820s, Abner Lodge protests the construction of the Eerie Canal on aesthetic grounds, justifying this opposition by appeal to the crackpot ‘eggshell earth’ theory invented and propagated by himself, Abner Lodge

When in 1842, a survey brings to attention the fact that Riverdale’s crime rate is ten times the national average, it is decided some manner of law enforcement is in order. Thomas Keller returns from a hunting trip to learn he has been elected constable in an election he was unaware of. Since no one else wants the job, it becomes something of a hereditary position.

In 1848, Captain Richard Blossom storms Chapultapec Castle and returns home with a looted idol he claims to be cursed by the heathen gods of old Mexico. It is blamed for a rash of accidents and illnesses that winter, and the town council authorizes Constable Keller to confiscate it as a threat to the public welfare.

In 1861, in the midst of the secession crisis and a few weeks ahead of First Manassas, Julian Blossom, youngest son of Richard, gets himself and ten of his friends severely drunk. They collect their revolvers and shotguns, storm town hall, take Riverdale’s modest legislature prisoner, and draft an ordinance of secession along with a letter to Richmond requesting Riverdale’s admission into the Confederacy. Town postman Hermann Andrews telegraphs Greendale, which sends its 15 man strong militia to put down the rising (less six militiamen who manage to come up with excuses). The insurrection is quashed by the next morning, when the rebels sober up. Blossom spends one day in jail and is fined $2

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Diahann Carroll, Pioneering Actress on ‘Julia’ and 'Dynasty,’ Dies at 84

She also landed an historic Tony Award, plus an Oscar nomination for her performance in 'Claudine.'

Diahann Carroll, the captivating singer and actress who came from the Bronx to win a Tony Award, receive an Oscar nomination and make television history with her turns on Julia and Dynasty, has died Friday. She was 84.

Carroll died at her home in Los Angeles after a long bout with cancer, her daughter, producer-journalist Suzanne Kay, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Carroll was known as a Las Vegas and nightclub performer and for her performances on Broadway and in the Hollywood musicals Carmen Jones and Porgy & Bess when she was approached by an NBC executive to star as Julia Baker, a widowed nurse raising a young son, on the comedy Julia.

She didn't want to do it. "I really didn't believe that this was a show that was going to work," she said in a 1998 chat for the website The Interviews: An Oral History of Television. "I thought it was something that was going to leave someone's consciousness in a very short period of time. I thought, 'Let them go elsewhere.' "

However, when Carroll learned that Hal Kanter, the veteran screenwriter who created the show, thought she was too glamorous for the part, she was determined to change his mind. She altered her hairstyle and mastered the pilot script, quickly convincing him that she was the right woman.

Carroll thus became the first African-American female to star in a non-stereotypical role in her own primetime network series. (Several actresses portrayed a maid on ABC's Beulah in the early 1950s.)

Baker, whose husband had died in Vietnam, worked for a doctor (Lloyd Nolan) at an aerospace company; she was educated and outspoken, and she dated men (including characters played by Fred Williamson, Paul Winfield and Don Marshall) who were successful, too.

"We were saying to the country, 'We're going to present a very upper middle-class black woman raising her child, and her major concentration is not going to be about suffering in the ghetto,' " Carroll noted.

"Many people were incensed about that. They felt that [African Americans] didn't have that many opportunities on television or in film to present our plight as the underdog … they felt the [real-world] suffering was much too acute to be so trivial as to present a middle-class woman who is dealing with the business of being a nurse.

"But we were of the opinion that what we were doing was important, and we never left that point of view … even though some of that criticism of course was valid. We were of a mind that this was a different show. We were allowed to have this show."

Julia, which premiered in September 1968, finished No. 7 in the ratings in the first of its three seasons, and Carroll received an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe for her work.

As the sultry fashionista Dominique Deveraux — the first prominently featured African-American character on a primetime soap opera — Carroll played a much edgier character for three seasons on ABC's Dynasty and its spinoff The Colbys, delightfully dueling with fellow diva Alexis Carrington Colby (Joan Collins).

While recuperating after starring on Broadway in Agnes of God, Carroll had found herself digging Dynasty — "Isn't this the biggest hoot?" she said — and lobbied producer Aaron Spelling for a role on his series.

"They've done everything [on the show]. They've done incest, homosexuality, murder. I think they're slowly inching their way toward interracial," she recalled in a 1984 piece for People magazine. "I want to be wealthy and ruthless … I want to be the first black bitch on television."

Carroll made perhaps her biggest mark on the big screen with her scrappy title-role performance in Claudine (1974), playing a Harlem woman on welfare who raises six children on her own and falls for a garbage collector (James Earl Jones).

The part was originally given to her dear friend, Diana Sands. But when Sands (who had played Julia Baker's cousin on several episodes of Julia) was stricken with cancer, she suggested Carroll take her place.

"The producers said, 'How can she do this role? No one would believe she could do it," Carroll said. "I remember the headline in the paper: 'Would you believe Jackie Onassis as a welfare mother?' … The very coupling of the name Jackie Onassis and Diahann Carroll is very interesting, if you think about it. There question was, how do we make anyone believe that she has [six] children? And to be nominated for an Academy Award, to do that, it was the best, the best."

Carol Diahann Johnson was born in Fordham Hospital in the Bronx on July 17, 1935. Her father, John, was a subway conductor when she was young, and her mother, Mabel, a nurse. She won a scholarship to the High School of Music & Art, where Billy Dee Williams was a classmate.

At 15, she began to model clothing for black-audience magazines like Ebony,Tan and Jett. Her dad disapproved at first, then began to reconsider when she told him she had earned $600 for a session.  

Her parents drove her to Philadelphia on many weekends so she could be a contestant on the TV talent show Teen Club, hosted by bandleader Paul Whiteman. And then she won several times on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts program, where she first billed herself as Diahann Carroll.

After enrolling at NYU to study psychology, she appeared on the Dennis James-hosted ABC talent show Chance of a Lifetime in 1953 and won for several weeks. One of her rewards was a regular engagement to perform at the famed Latin Quarter nightclub in Manhattan.

Christine Jorgensen taught her how to "carry" herself onstage, she said, and she moved in with her manager, training and rehearsing every day. She soon was singing in the Persian Room at New York's Plaza Hotel and at other hotspots including Ciro's, The Mocambo and The Cloister in Hollywood, The Black Orchid in Chicago and L'Olympia in Paris.

She soon dropped out of college to pursue performing full-time and was brought to Los Angeles to audition for Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones (1954), landing the role of Myrt opposite the likes of Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge.

At the end of 1954, she made her Broadway debut as the young star of the Truman Capote-Harold Arlen musical House of Flowers. Walter Kerr in The New York Herald Tribune called her "a plaintive and extraordinarily appealing ingenue."

She was cast to play Clara in Preminger and Rouben Mamoulian's movie adaptation of Porgy and Bess (1959), but her voice was considered too low for her character's Summertime number, so another singer dubbed for her.

She met Sidney Poitier on that film, thus beginning what she described as a "very turbulent" nine-year romance with him. (Carroll then had first non-singing movie role, playing a schoolteacher opposite Poitier, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in 1961's Paris Blues).

She would become renowned for her phrasing, partially a result of her studying with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.

In 1963, she earned the first of her four career Emmy noms for portraying a teacher yet again on ABC's gritty Naked City.

Richard Rodgers spotted her during one of her frequent singing appearances on Jack Paar's Tonight Show and decided to compose a Broadway musical for her. After scrapping the idea to have her portray an Asian in 1958's Flower Drum Song, he wrote 1962's No Strings, a love story revolving around an African-American fashion model (Carroll) and a nebbish white novelist (Richard Kiley).

His first effort following the death of longtime collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II, it brought Carroll rave reviews and a Tony Award, the first given to a black woman for best actress in a lead role of a musical.

Soon after hosting a CBS summer replacement variety show in 1976, she retired from show business and moved to Oakland. Landing the role of Dominique — the half-sister of John Forsythe's Blake Carrington — in 1984 put her back on the map in Hollywood.

She told the show's writers: "The most important thing to remember is write for a white male, and you'll have the character. Don't try to write for what you think I am. Write for a white man who wants to be wealthy and powerful. And that's the way we found Dominique Deveraux."

More recently, Carroll had recurring roles as Jasmine Guy's mother on NBC's A Different World, as Isaiah Washington's mom on ABC's Grey's Anatomy and as a Park Avenue widow on USA's White Collar. She also appeared in such films as Eve's Bayou (1997) and on stage as Norman Desmond in a musical version of Sunset Blvd.

She was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2011.

Carroll recorded several albums during her career and wrote the memoirs Diahann, published in 1986, and The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, Mothering and Other Things I Learned Along the Way, in 2008.

She was married four times: to Monte Kay, a manager and a casting consultant on House of Flowers; to Freddie Glusman, a Las Vegas clothier (that union lasted just a few weeks); to magazine editor Robert DeLeon (he died in an auto accident in 1977); and to singer Vic Damone (from 1987 until their 1996 divorce). She also had a three-year romance with talk-show host David Frost.

In addition to her daughter, survivors include her grandchildren, August and Sydney.

Duane Byrge contributed to this report.

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OPINION: May Diahann Carroll rest in peace!  She was a great actress for many years.🙏

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382. Sears Closes Stores for 42 Hours ( February 27-March 1, 1989)

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I remembered another boneheaded move by our pals at Sears. Previously, I had brought up Sears discontinuing its Big Book catalog years before online shopping became mainstream. This time its Sears thinking it was a good idea to close for 42 hours to reduce prices on thousands of items. In retail hours, that’s a long butt time. 

Prep started early at some larger stores: 

Six million inventory sheets. More than 20,000 pricing guns. At least 100 million blank pricing labels and about 140 million pre-printed ones. Thousands of in-store signs and displays. Thousands of additional part-time workers and untold amounts of coffee and gooey, sugary Danish to keep the workers` energy levels high.

Jim Eagan, manager of Sears at Oakbrook Center, oversees one of the largest outlets in the area. The first step was to count every item in the store, Eagan said.

Eagan`s workers will sort through more than 6,000 inventory sheets, each containing about 14 items. Each item will be counted, then re-ticketed with the new prices.

Then there`s all those spiffy new signs to hang.

''Headquarters sent us 18 large boxes containing new four-color signs for the store. Our regional office sent us 10 boxes of signs. They spent 1,232 hours making between 8,000 and 9,000 signs,'' he said.

Workers stayed until 11 p.m. Sunday to count inventory in the apparel areas, Eagan said. ''Tonight (Monday), we`ll count everything in hardlines-the appliances, automotive, recreational and leisure, paint and hardware.''

Because the turnaround must be completed quickly, Sears has added thousands of part-time workers to its payrolls. 1

One of several items that surprised me was how many workers worked at Sears stores back then. This is from a store in Florida: 

George Harrigan, manager of the Altamonte Mall store, said the 42-hour chore of retagging the prices on more than 50,000 items was "a massive job. We hired between 75 and a hundred part-timers in addition to using our 350 to 375 regular employees. There was a lot of overtime. The conversion was very expensive." Harrigan, however, said he was unable to estimate the cost of the changeover. 2

No wonder Sears was struggling even then.  Hiring nearly 400 people for one store. This wasn’t Macys at Harold Square!  George reminds me of another point: how much money Sears spent on the stores being closed for 42 hours and the signs and the extra work. I’ve read estimates of $100 million. 3

Of course there were complaints once the stores reopened at noon on March 1st:

″I think it might cheapen them a little bit, but they’re a grade higher than K mart,″ said Pam Cage, 31, one of about 3,000 shoppers who crowded a Sears store in Miami. 4

″Prices seem to be a little lower, but I don’t see a heck of a lot of difference,″ said one woman at the Holyoke, Mass., Sears who declined to give her name but described herself as a regular Sears shopper.

Lynn Carver of Barkhamsted, Conn., said she drove to a West Hartford Sears store to exchange some sheets and found the price was about 20 percent higher than the week before.

Operating Manager Larry Glowa said the sheets had been on sale last week and were not among the items reduced in price Wednesday. 4

But Thomas Hughes, a retired stagehand from Bayside, Queens, held up a Craftsman router, a woodworking power tool, and complained: ''It's $10 off. It should be at least $20 off.'' 5

and you read those now, and you’re just like:

Kmart replied:

Barbara Palazzolo, spokeswoman for the 2,265-store K mart Corp., based in Troy, Mich., said the nation’s No. 2 retailer planned no immediate response to the Sears move. ″We’ve had everyday low prices for the past 27 years,″ she said. 4

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1. Randle, Wilma, “42 HOURS TO BRAND NEW SEARS,” Chicago Tribune, February 28,1989. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-02-28-8903080963-story.html

2. Michael, Kenneth, “PRICES LURE SHOPPERS TO SEARS,” Orlando Sentinel, March 2, 1989. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1989-03-02-8903030061-story.html

3. Barmash, Isadore, “Sears Promotes Price Policy With Big Advertising Surge,” New York Times, March 27, 1989. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/27/business/sears-promotes-price-policy-with-big-advertising-surge.html

4. Schoenburg, Bernard, “Shoppers Jam Stores For Sears New Low Prices,” Associated Press, March 2, 1989. https://www.apnews.com/8f6bd8e597d7f3ae6efd668ebe9120c9

5. Barmrsh, Isadore, “Big Crowds Greet the New Sears,” New York Times, March 2 1989.  https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/02/business/big-crowds-greet-the-new-sears.html 

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Chicago elections 2019

So it appears that as a result of last night’s effectively-a-primary election, Chicago will have

1) its second black mayor ever

2) its second woman mayor ever

3) its first black woman mayor ever, and

4) there’s a very strong possibility that it will have its first LGBT mayor ever

Not too shabby for one night’s elections, really.

Chicago poised to elect first African-American female mayor after Lori Lightfoot, Toni Preckwinkle advance (chicagotribune.com)

Chicago will elect its first African-American female mayor after former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle won enough votes Tuesday amid a record field of 14 candidates to move on to an April runoff election.

It’s only the second time Chicago has had a runoff campaign for mayor, which occurs when no candidate collects more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round.

Unofficial results showed Lightfoot with 17.5 percent of the vote, Preckwinkle with 16 percent and Bill Daley with 14.7 percent, with 96 percent of precincts counted. [...]   One of them will become Chicago’s second female mayor, following Jane Byrne, who served one term from 1979 to 1983. And if Lightfoot is elected, she would become the city’s first openly gay mayor. Both would become the second African-American elected Chicago mayor after Harold Washington, who served from 1983 until he died in 1987....

Historic Chicago election draws national spotlight, praise from black, LGBTQ communities: 'I think Chicago is potentially ready to turn the corner' (chicagotribune.com)

[...]  after Tuesday’s election winnowed down 14 mayoral candidates to two African-American women, one of them openly gay, both Chicago voters and national political groups are focusing instead on how the city’s politics are set to change. [...] Longtime Chicagoan and former presidential candidate the Rev. Jesse Jackson said in a Facebook post that he “could not be prouder” of Chicago. “For the first time in history, the next mayor of Chicago will be a black woman,” Jackson said. “Two progressive African-American women will square off in the April 2 mayoral runoff. I could not be prouder of my beloved city. We made herstory tonight.”

Live Chicago election results (chi.vote)

It will be interesting to see how the votes redistribute in the April final election. Turnout will be sharply lower, one suspects -- it generally is in what feel like special elections -- which may favor Preckwinkle. Assuming that she can shed being attached somewhat indirectly to a big, spreading corruption investigation in City Hall, that is. (There was a big hand-wringing Tuesday morning and afternoon about turnout being sharply lower in this election -- they were predicting it could be the lowest and oldest and whitest turnout this century -- but there was a late surge that was bigger, younger, and browner. ‘Cause millennials -- and damn near everyone else -- gotta work, y’all. It may be a rule/union requirement that some people get time off for voting, but hell if there’s a single business going to let ‘em, you hear me?)

I am kind of impressed that the whole thing about Lightfoot being a lesbian -- and married with children, even -- is more or less relegated to a sort of, “Oh? Yeah? Interesting. But how’s she going to handle the unfunded pension mandates without raising taxes?” issue. As it should be. (Also, pretty sure the pension issue can’t be handled without more tax increases, unfortunately.)

Elsewhere in our elections, we seem to have a theme:

Chicago’s Election Signals Break from the Past — in Wards and at City Hall (propublica.org)

...  That evening, as totals streamed in, it became clear that voters demanded a change. Hadden overwhelmed Joe Moore, a 28-year incumbent, with 64 percent of the vote. She became the first openly queer black woman elected to the City Council, and one of the first black aldermen ever to come from the North Side....

[...]  Months ago, Moore sensed that his re-election bid in the city’s far northeast corner could be tough. He watched from afar as 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez toppled another Joe, longtime U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley, in a diverse, liberal New York City district not unlike the 49th Ward. In the age of President Donald Trump, Democrats seen as compromising or shopworn are sometimes viewed as part of the problem....

[...] By Tuesday afternoon, Hadden thought she had a chance. “But if nothing else, we’ve got new people voting, new people involved in the campaign, and we’re going to keep organizing,” she said. “In some ways, we’ve already won by putting the community’s vision first.”Within a few hours, she had won the election, too....

Teary Wrigleyville Ald. Tom Tunney claims victory in fight versus Ricketts family (chicagotribune.com)

A teary Ald. Tom Tunney claimed victory in his Wrigleyville battle against Cubs owners the Ricketts family [...] Fighting back tears, Tunney told supporters that he has sought to make sure the neighborhood is “successful with Wrigley Field in it.” 

At his side was Mayor Emanuel, who said it’s important to support people who work hard, build schools, and invest in public safety and neighborhoods. “Tom's done that, and the people obviously reflected that,” Emanuel said."I think when you have somebody come in and say they're going to try to bigfoot the voice of the constituents, it's very important to see results like this," Emanuel told the Tribune. Asked if that was referring to the Ricketts family, which funded a group that sent out mailers against Tunney, the mayor brushed the question aside....

I should think the mayor would “brush the question aside”, yes.

Ald. Tom Tunney Holds On To His Seat In 44th Ward (blockclubchicago.org)

Incumbent Ald. Tom Tunney is poised to hold on to his seat in the 44th Ward.

With 95 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night, Tunney had 63 percent of the vote, according to the Chicago Board of Elections. Challenger Austin Baidas was at 26 percent and Elizabeth Shydlowski was at 11 percent.

Tunney addressed supporters at a campaign party at El Jardin  in Lakeview with outgoing Mayor Rahm Emanuel by his side.

“I’m grateful to the neighborhood for their support and will continue to work with the Cubs to make sure Lakeview remains one of the best neighborhoods in the city,” Tunney said. “I always have and always will believe in being a collaborative leader for the city.”

In the lead up to the election, the Ricketts family, owners of the Chicago Cubs, were linked both openly and behind the scenes to efforts to unseat Tunney... [...]  Tunney, owner of Ann Sather restaurants, became the first openly gay alderman when he was first elected in 2003.

Apparently the Ricketts believe that the proper position for an Alderman in a ward in which they have major interests is supine, preferably beneath their feet. (Full disclosure: I know and like Tom Tunney, and it’s not as if the Ricketts have never gotten anything they want regarding the Cubs, as long as the requests are reasonable and can be balanced with the interests of the people who live there and whom Tom actually, you know, represents. He’s not particularly obstructionist. They just don’t get everything they want, they frequently don’t get it the way they want, and they don’t get it anything like as fast as they want. They get something, the people who live there get some concessions as well. Isn’t that the way this is all supposed to work? But I digress.) 

We may even wind up with a few outright Socialists (well, US style socialists) on the city council (chicago.suntimes.com) after the April runoffs.

And apparently we have a vote buying scandal in the 25th ward? Really? Huh.(It looks like the ward was having all sorts of issues, in fact, since poll watchers had been sent to observe for an entirely separate problem.) It seems to have been at least somewhat successful, since the person buying the votes made it to the runoffs -- to replace an alderman who is leaving office because he was wired for sound in a corruption investigation, and now appears to have gone to ground. Seriously, you’d think that maybe someone would realize that people would actually be paying attention to the ward under these circumstances. (Irrelevant side note: the political conspiracy in the film “Widows” assumes a lot more competence than is sometimes in evidence in this city.)

That said, being indicted for federal crimes is apparently no bar to a campaign; Alderman Burke was re-elected without even having to go to a runoff. (”He may be a crook, but he’s OUR crook!” kind of sentiment, I guess. And allegedly, he was competent in his corruption. At least, he knew better than to buy votes on the day of the election in the polling place, anyway.)

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In Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller, Shadow of a Doubt, spunky, recent high school grad Teresa Wright discovers her beloved uncle is a serial killer.

Wright’s subsequent efforts to protect herself and others from psychopathic Joseph Cotten are continually frustrated by the extraordinary denial of her family and her community lost in the “thrall” of the worldly, smooth-talking Uncle Charlie.

Heartbroken and distraught, she must contend with her uncle’s violent agenda while being obstructed by a naive and vulnerable community of his enablers and/or soon to be victims.

Wright’s horrifying predicament resonates as I witness my – our – psychopathic uncle – UNCLE SAM, the U.S. government – perpetrate violent crime upon crime against humanity enabled by a maddening, morally mute, over-trusting, under-informed and/or indifferent citizenry.

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fully wrap my mind or heart around the profound lack of outrage and empathy among government leaders from both corporate parties, the corporate media, as well as the vast majority of my fellow citizens at the ongoing atrocities of the Global War on Terror (more accurately, the “US Global War of Terror”) and the “regime change” covert and/or overt operations initially and sinisterly described as “humanitarian interventions.”

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 seemingly justified a “gloves off” bloodlust defiance by the political and military “guardians” of America of the legal and moral pillars of our democracy.  All these years since, the mandates for constitutional and moral justice “for all” have gone unheeded.

The Iraq war was launched illegally and with manipulative lies.  Bush’s torture program was in total opposition to constitutional, international and moral law.  Its perpetrators deserved serious prosecution.

The Geneva Conventions were ratified once upon a time by a U.S. Congress.  Habeas corpus, in place since 1679, so cavalierly suspended with the GWOT’s “anything goes” rationale.

When such gobsmacking evil manifests on such a collective and global level for such a sustained amount of time, it deserves a serious analysis by those of us still spiritually awake enough to protest it.

At this point in my concerned citizenship, I am moving beyond anger into an awe of the scope of the – well – I call it downright and seriously unchallenged EVIL. Looking for a more clinical term than that?  How about patriarchal psychopathology?

In his acceptance speech for the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, Harold Pinter acknowledged the long trail of U.S. international war crimes as well as the lack of historical and current accountability by this government, corporate media and its citizenry for them.

“It never happened.  Nothing ever happened.  Even while it was happening, it wasn’t happening . . . You have to hand it to America . . . masquerading as a force for universal good.  It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.”

Speaking of bottom-line and minimized evil, the specter of torture has reared its ugly head once again with President Donald Trump, an unabashed torture enthusiast, and the confirmation of his choice for Director of the CIA, “Bloody Gina” Haspel, notorious overseer of a secret black prison in Thailand where brutal torture was conducted.  She was readily confirmed by a combination of Democratic and Republican senators. Senators, no doubt, who after fearful years of being labeled “too soft on terror” were not about to stick their necks out for decency and morality.

Too many of my fellow citizens, terminally influenced by an amoral corporate media, I am nonetheless at a loss for their easy acceptance of torture.

A Pew Research poll released in 2017 revealed that 48% of the US citizenry believed that some circumstances could justify the use of torture, and 49% maintained there were no circumstances that would ever justify it.

Every other US citizen is thumb’s up for the use of torture!

How disturbing over the last decade for the use of torture to be normalized and decriminalized by the military, citizenry, politicians, media, and those government lawyers who early on cravenly defied the obvious spirit of basic “Golden Rule” morality, the Constitution, and international law, to minimize the savagery of torture with euphemistic labels still parroted by much of the corporate media and or applied as fig leaves over the reprehensible.

“Enhanced interrogation techniques.”  Thank you, New York Times.  They are monstrous methods of inflicting debilitating psychological and physical anguish on victims even at times to the point of death. Techniques that, along with being illegal and immoral, are universally regarded as unreliable.  They are reliable only in generating false confessions (which apparently was one of the goals of the original, craven perpetrators).

Torture is wrong. It is evil.

Reading Jacob Weisberg’s book, The Bush Tragedy, I learned that the main ego-armature for George W. Bush during his Yale University years was his participation in the fraternity culture.

Weisberg discloses that when “W” finally became head of a fraternity, he “ruled” at one point that lowly pledges be branded with real, Texas branding irons as part of their hazing.

When the Yale Daily News got wind of Bush’s sadistic and zealous intention, it disclosed it to the entire university community. The Yale administrative patriarchs immediately huddled together to deal with the negative P.R.  (I’m guessing that far outweighed the actual physical or psychological welfare of the targeted pledges.)

The patriarchs’ solution?  Rein in Mr. Bush, whose sociopathy they presumably minimized as an impish, “boys-will-be-boys”-ness.  With the proverbial wink and nod, they insisted young Bush forego the branding irons and instead ONLY make use of scalding metal coat hangers or lit cigarettes to burn freshman flesh.

Say what?

Problem solved? This Yale incident foreshadowed and undoubtedly helped foster the ultimate creation of the craven and covert torture program by Bush and cabal, particularly with the ever-Satanic Dick Cheney.

The green-lighting of that more modest degree of torture speaks volumes of a troubling, profoundly unempathetic – sociopathic— macho-mindset within the deepest, most influential halls of America’s supposed intellectual and ruling class elite and mentors of said elite.  They enabled and abetted young, already morally-deranged Master Bush, instead of role modeling and enforcing boundaries of basic human decency.

Just another rite of male passage?  No wonder our American culture is so violent.

Andy Worthington, a prime advocate for victimized prisoners of Gitmo once reminded his audience during a NYC anti-war forum that in 2007 it was Senator Obama who declared:

“In the dark halls of Abu Ghraib and the detention cells of Guantánamo, we have compromised our most precious values.  What could have been a call to a generation has become an excuse for unchecked presidential power.”

President Obama posed as a person of character most convincingly.  It got him the White House.  Twice.

Obama took no responsibility for his breathtaking, 180-degree reversals of golden promises of anti-Bush reform, pre-election.

The most obvious and necessarily immediate reforms that he failed to act on were the restoration of habeas corpus rights and the prosecution of the perpetrators of the clandestine Bush torture program, of those who had most reprehensibly exploited the post-9/11 fear, outrage and vengeance sensibility of much of the citizenry.

Obama’s policy decisions instead included deadly drone warfare, assassination kill lists, unlimited due-process-less detentions, military tribunals, countless corporate wars and U.S. military (corporate-opportunistic) garrisoning; and the continuation of Gitmo and God only knows what other black sites.

Obama’s posture was of an always rhetorically amiable and faux-reasonable Roman emperor with thumb’s up or down power over life and death.  Many of his “subjects” adored him.

“We tortured some folks,” he finally admitted with a shrug at a press conference.  As if it was not a colossally serious deal. “Folks”?  Now there’s a friendly word.

This is heart-of-darkness territory.  Obama chose to become an enabler of violators of human rights and then a violator of them himself.  To add to the horror, Obama so readily was enabled by the media in this, the vast majority of Congress, and the vast majority of citizens.

Does the cult of celebrity in America overwhelm basic human decency?  It seems so.

Do U.S. leaders as diverse (but all amoral) as Bush, Obama and Trump, along with callous political cronies, military leaders and media, only need to repeat the word “terror” enough times to have so much of America fall into a “do with us, our money, or anyone else whatever depraved, anti-humanity behavior you want” kind of swoon?

“To torture or not to torture” not only a hot news media topic, but fodder for jingoistic and sensationalized movies and TV shows (as the normalization of torture steamrolls on).

Loyalty and admiration for the troops (no matter what war crimes they may be committing) and/or blind trust in a national administrative and military authority should not override human decency.  American “exceptionalism” should not override identifying and ending war criminality.  It does.

The status quo establishment in America has us locked into perpetual war with untold mass global deaths and maiming and ever-increasing economic hardship for all humanity except for a tiny percentage of transnational elites.

A paradigm shift from a “profits over people” patriarchy to the humanism of partnership and cooperation is the answer, but that would require decisions based on a U.S. leadership, a U.S. media and a U.S. society that seriously honored empathy, justice and the law.

Ours do not.

Scott Peck asserts in his book, People of the Lie, that mental health is “dedication to reality at all costs.”  This healthy sense of reality includes an in-touchness with one’s inner reality and a respect for the reality of others.  It requires the capacity to fully think and FEEL.

This “feeling capacity” – including and especially EMPATHY — seems most vulnerable to dysfunction in our society and world, among both leaders and followers.

Feelings are profoundly under-valued in our U.S. society, and this feeling dysfunction is at the heart (or lack thereof) of the existing suffering and injustice.

Alice Miller, in her book For Your Own Good, refers to a “poisonous pedagogy” that can infect a society.  She explains that that was what made the “good” (as in compliant) German population easy prey for the authoritarianism of Hitler.

Miller emphasizes that the capacity for empathy is not linked to one’s intelligence.  She points out that both Hitler and Stalin had enthusiastic, highly intellectual followers.

If one is not able to respond with authentic feelings and thoughtful consideration to real life situations involving oneself or others, one is susceptible to “enthrallment” to the will of a toxic and controlling leader, asserts Miller.

She also contends that unprocessed trauma in one’s childhood, that is, when children are exposed to profound degrees of non-empathy from adult caretakers, will cause a crippling or shutting down of their feeling capacity later in adult life along with the potential of a sudden dismantling of their own will for the will of another.  Miller explains that such trauma undoubtedly also happened to the original destructive caretakers during their childhoods in a continuing, generational cycle of dysfunction.

When trauma goes unprocessed by feelings, that is, it stays unfelt and un-grieved, it induces one to over-identify with an aggressor and enter his or her “thrall” later in adulthood.  Also, such conditioning can induce one to project one’s negative feelings about oneself onto others as scapegoats.  People with a disordered feeling capacity cannot handle and take mature responsibility for whatever guilt, shame, anger, frustration gets triggered within them in the present and must deflect it.

In People of the Lie, Scott Peck discusses the experiments of Dr. Stanley Milgram at Yale in 1961 which revealed how people were so readily intimidated by an authority in a white coat that they willingly would inflict what they thought were disabling electric shocks on strangers without question.  Six out of 10 of the tested humans were willing to inflict serious harm on strangers from their own over-conditioning to the will of authority figures.

Peck emphasizes how obedience is the foundation of military discipline.  “A follower is never a WHOLE person,” he maintains. Tragically, most people are far more comfortable in the “follower” role, leaving the responsibility and decision-making to those who step forward as leaders.  When ruthless, reckless, immature, even sociopathic persons assume leadership positions, especially in an authoritarian system, the results can be tragic.

He also contends that a lack of conscience in human beings is partly due to “specialization”, a detachment from responsibility.  One regards oneself as simply playing a role in a group scenario and thus can easily pass the “moral buck” so-to-speak to another part of the group.  Troops shooting foreign civilians with a kind of “video-game aloofness”, for example will rationalize:   “We don’t kill the people.  Our weapons do.  Whoever gave us these weapons and instructions are really responsible for the killing.  Not us.”

Another example he cites is of how weapons manufacturers, sellers, lobbyists, etc. feel no personal responsibility for the consequences of violence from the weapons they distribute.  The moral decision as to the use of the weapons is not part of their “specialized” roles.  (And the financial profits are just too damn juicy to consider otherwise.)

Peck also cites the regressive shutting down of authentic and appropriate feelings in people due to a phenomenon called “psychic numbing.”  The mind has the ability to anesthetize itself from feelings in the face of trauma. “The horrible becomes normal,” he writes.

Finally, he explains that groups bond often within a collectively egotistical groupthink by circling the proverbial wagons against a common, demonized enemy.  “The other.”  Scapegoating occurs when a group collectively projects the “badness” of themselves, too difficult to fathom, onto others.

James Lucas in an article for globalresearch.com back in 2015 declared that the United States has killed approximately 20 million people in 37 countries since the end of World War II.

How many of us can actually begin to feel and process the utter enormity of such a revelation? (One thinks of a quote attributed to the profoundly non-empathetic Joseph Stalin:  “One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.”)

What say you to 20 million, America?  Look what our UNCLE SAM has wrought.

Can we as a nation cultivate a collective capacity for “empathy”?  A critical mass of us reached a breakthrough of collective conscience during the Vietnam era (though it took us long enough, admittedly).

Can each of us dedicate ourselves to a “reality at all costs” awareness for our individual as well as collective mental health?

The fast hardening of soft fascism seems to be happening with little conscious struggle among the masses who seem convinced we non-elites can get away with staying passive and will be supported by our corporate-captured politicians and media.

Can we face down and acknowledge the relentless criminality of our government and representatives (who are not really OUR representatives).

If such crimes are not acknowledged, called out and then accounted for they will continue and escalate in number and nature.  Even more frightening, more and more and more “good” Americans will succumb to this “normalization” of evil.

Confronting evil is daunting.  Confronting mass and institutionalized evil all the more so.  Sickening.  Spiritually exhausting.  It even has been said to biologically weaken one’s thymus gland that supports the body’s immune system.

We must detach from seductive “cronyism” with authoritarians or authoritarian followers and encourage others to do so.

We must explore the details of what is going on in our citizen name, with our tax dollars and especially with our vulnerable, patriotic and earnest young who can become tragically confounded by and induced to perpetrate institutionalized evil policies.

We owe it to ourselves and our world to stay whole and awake as citizens. To speak truth to power. Once again, “a follower is not a whole person” as Scott Peck declared.

“This is why the individual is sacred.  For it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.”

It has been said there are three types of people in this world.  A smallish group of people who make things happen.  A larger group of people who watch things happen.  (I am thinking, of those “good people who do nothing.”)  And finally the third, excessively large and clueless group, exclaiming, “WHAT THE F*CK HAPPENED???”

Let’s try to shrink the second and third groups and expand the first by getting up and exercising those consciences.

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S3 E4 – Father’s Day: John Gorenfeld Part 2 on the Falling Out podcast with Elgen Strait

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s3-e4-fathers-day-john-gorenfeld-part-2/id1550448436?i=1000568020598

1 hour 27 minutes

John Gorenfeld's epic twitter thread commentary: https://twitter.com/johngorenfeld/status/1539985326105661444

The shark poaching scam was reported in the Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-13-me-sharks13-story.html

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QAnon Anonymous episode debunking 2,000 Mules: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5IWNqgtkPuxPwmOTUj9Hlu

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-189-2000-mules-trampling-dinesh-dsouza/id1428209307?i=1000562670706

Episode 189: 2000 Mules Trampling Dinesh D'Souza

2020 voter fraud conspiracy theories rebooted and remixed by Dinesh D'Souza. 2000 Mules is a "documentary" that garnered Dinesh praise from Donald Trump and caused a fight with Tucker Carlson's production team. We explore the extremely shoddy claims made in the movie.

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6:40 The money that helped to launch the Unification Church The UC connected with Sasakawa in 1961 or 1962 NOT before. Moon scammed rich Korean women from 1946 onwards

One example: Lee Shin-sil donated land in Guri where Il-Hwa Ginseng and a training center were built – now demolished and the hugely valuable land is now covered in high rise housing, most likely still owned by the UC. (ref. Kim Myung-hui book page 391.)

▲ Construction in Guri was nearing completion in 2018

Later rich people were targeted in Japan (young to join and get their parents money, older to get their money directly).

14:00 Sushi:

▲ Japanese UC “slaves” in Alaska. Some were not allowed to join their husbands until they were 33 (and often by that time their health had suffered from the demanding work they had to do). Their pay was minimal. LINK

20:20 Politics. Wi Jo Kang wrote “The Unification Church: Christian Church or Political Movement?” in 1976. Robert Boettcher wrote extensively about Moon’s politics in his book, “Gifts of Deceit” (1980). Jean-François Boyer also extensively covered politics in his book, “L’empire Moon” (French and Spanish editions) 1986 (some of his work is available in English). John D. Marks, John Roberts, Robert Parry, Dr. Jeffrey M. Bale, Daniel Junas, Kevin Phillips, Richard J. Samuels and Frederick Clarkson did excellent political reporting (some wrote books). Rory O’Connor produced the 1992 Frontline documentary called “The Resurrection of Reverend Moon” and another excellent documentary was “Rev Sun Myung Moon: Emperor of the Universe” documentary, a BBC / A&E Network co-production, 2000. Harold Paine and Birgit Gratzer wrote “Rev. Moon and the United Nations” in 2001. Former members Allen Tate Wood, Ford Greene and Michael Warder have covered Moon’s politics. The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Manchester Guardian and London Times and others have all covered the politics of Sun Myung Moon.

22:30 Moon and Kamiyama tax case

New York Times, July 17, 1982

The case was not limited to tax-fraud charges involving the failure to report income from bank accounts and securities, Judge Goettel said. He stressed that Mr. Moon had also been convicted of a conspiracy involving false documents, perjured testimony and obstruction of justice. If the failure to report the income had been the only charge, a suspended sentence could be appropriate for Mr. Moon under the circumstances, the judge said. He suggested that the “the cover-up scheme” was more serious than the original offense.

Full story: https://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/17/nyregion/moon-is-sentenced-to-18-month-term.html

Sun Myung Moon was found guilty and sent to Danbury prison in 1984

Guilty Moon. Law firm was paid $100,000 up front and $50,000 a month to obtain a presidential pardon for Moon. It failed.

The Korean Government raided the Il-hwa Ginseng Company for tax evasion in February, 1977.

An insider trading and kickback scheme of over $70 million between John Lavalley and US Church leaders, including Ki Hoon Kim and Won-ju McDevitt.

Moon autobiography buying-up fund in Korea exceeded 2 billion won (about 200 million yen) Fraud to get book on Korean best seller list, and keep it there for over a year. That meant stores all over the country had to keep it in stock and promote it.

Here is how the FFWPU described the “Moon Autobiography” operation in Korea at the time.

Publisher of Moon’s Autobiography in Korea jailed for 4 years for corruption.

A significant review of Moon’s Autobiography by Dr George Chryssides. He looks at the form and the content of the book, and asks why many significant questions were not touched on.

It seems the manufacture of Moon’s Autobiography was a last desperate attempt to promote Moon for the Nobel Peace Prize.

32:30 Japanese widow scam links:

A huge Moon Church scam in Japan is revealed

Shocking video of UC of Japan demanding money – English transcript

Top Japanese ex-UC leader, Yoshikazu Soejima, interviewed

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult/unification/profit.htm

Moon extracted $500 million from Japanese female members

Moon church of Japan used members for profit, not religious purposes

How Sun Myung Moon bought protection in Japan

34:00 There are two key things to note about the book, full title: 「六マリアの悲劇   真のサタンは、文鮮明だ!!」 Tragedy of the Six Marys – the real Satan is Sun Myung Moon!! 1. Moon was not able to stop publication of the book through legal means because the contents were all true. Now the pikareum has been confirmed by two of Moon’s sons, Hyung Jin Moon and Kook Jin Moon

2. There were FOUR contributors besides Pak Chung-hwa. They were Eu Hyo-min who was a senior leader for many years and he developed the air rifles the UC sold, and managed the factory. Moon insisted that Eu’s gun patents be registered in Moon’s name. Eu was a 72 couple who was promoted to a 36 couple. Eu Shin-hee (who joined at the same time as her cousin Eu Hyo-won who wrote the DP), Kim Deok-jin who wrote many of the Holy Songs, and fourthly Professor Tahk Myeong-hwan who wrote a four page recommendation at the beginning of the book. None of these four retracted their testimonies. Many details in the book have been confirmed by other sources. The photographs speak from themselves (many taken by Eu Hyo-min). Tahk Myeong-hwan was murdered a few months after the book was published VIDEO.

Moon’s theology does not require every man to sleep with six women. That is a misunderstanding of “The Six Marys”. However, in the early days women who had been womb cleansed by Moon were expected to sleep with many men to purify them in sex relays. LINK

Sun Myung Moon’s sex theology

35:00 Bo Hi Pak left Moon and the UC but was given The Little Angels and persuaded to continue by Moon

Bo Hi Pak declared he was leaving the UC and tore up his application form at a top leader’s meeting in Korea

54:00  Many journalists and christian ministers were harassed

“In Korea, one even senses a fear, like one induced by the Mafia, among the opposition, and … outspoken opponents speak of death threats.” Prof. Sontag, 1976

In 1975 Korean Unification Church members physically attacked many Christian pastors

UC members sent more than 200 text messages to Cho’s cell phone, saying, “We’ll kill you.”

Moon’s followers poured a pot of urine and feces on the head of a Seoul University Professor of Religion.

Abducted and beaten up by the Unification Church in Korea

1. Freedom of the Press in Korea – Unification Church style

▲ Tahk Myeong-hwan in hospital after being beaten by Unification Church members. Later his car was bombed and finally he was murdered. LINK

2. Freedom of the Press in Japan – Unification Church style

The Korean regime imprisoned former Unification Church members who revealed the inner workings of the UC

“WHY did you disobey my order?” … Mr. Yoshizumi hit me and pushed me twice … against a sharp, protruding corner…

The house of Mr Justice Comyn was destroyed by arsonists just after the UC lost a massive libel case in London…..

Donald M. Fraser’s house was attacked by an arsonist just after his investigation into the Unification Church. It was only saved by good fortune.

Moonie “Dirty Tricks” against Donald Fraser

▲ 700 Moonies smashed windows and broke into the Seoul office of the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper, protesting an unfavorable report on the UC the paper had published. LINK

58:00 Sperm in the Holy Wine

Sun Myung Moon’s Ejaculate in the Holy Wine of the Unification Church

1:17:10 origins of the Divine Principle

Where Sun Myung Moon got his theology

Moon sought to influence the American political agenda by pouring more than a billion dollars into media.

The Resurrection of Reverend Sun Myung Moon

Politics and religion interwoven in the Unification Church

Sun Myung Moon: The Emperor of the Universe, transcript and links 1. “Rev Sun Myung Moon: Emperor of the Universe” documentary
.       A BBC / A&E Network co-production, 2000 2. World Domination – Sun Myung Moon died before he could take over a single country.

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CINDERELLA ON BROADWAY

1920

Cinderella on Broadway is a musical revue in two acts by Bert Grant (music) and Harold Atteridge (book and lyrics). Incidental music by Al Goodman and featuring songs by Cliff Friend and Harry Richman.

The evening followed Cinderella’s pursuit of her Prince, only to find he only exists in a book. She loses the book and the Prince with it. She must pursue him from the Moon and back to Broadway. 

The show was originally supposed to be The Passing Show of 1920, but the Shuberts felt that audience’s appetite for their annual revues was waning. The show’s original title and premise was Rip Van Winkle Junior. 

The show’s premiere performance was on June 6, 1920 at the Shubert, New Haven. 

While camped in Connecticut, some rambunctious Romeos raised a ruckus!  After braving the Ivy, Cinderella was originally headed right from New Haven to the Winter Garden, but was ruled not quite ready for the Main Stem. Instead headed to the Jersey Shore for one final round of fraught fixes.

The musical opened at the Globe Theatre in Atlantic City NJ on June 14, 1920. Next stop -- The Winter Garden.  This was the summer before the very first Miss America Beauty Contest (the ultimate Cinderella story) and the building of the newest Ritz-Carlton Hotel on the Boardwalk.  While Cinderella on Broadway has been largely forgotten, one of the next Globe presentations, Mary Roberts Rinehart’s, The Bat (then titled A Thief in the Night), would go on to break Broadway records. 

The original production was produced by the Shuberts and opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on June 24, 1920 and ran 126 performances, closing September 25, 1920. It was staged by J.C. Huffman, with musical staging by Allan K. Foster.  

The large cast was headed by Eileen Von Biene as Cinderella. Her elusive but charming Prince was Stewart Baird. Other fanciful characters include Peter Pan, Old King Cole, Jack Horner, Santa Claus and an appearance by Broadway himself. 

The bill included the on-again / off-again vaudeville pairing of Gallagher and Shean, who were “on-again” for Cinderella on Broadway.  Shean was the Uncle of the Marx Brothers. After Gallagher’s death, the film musical Atlantic City (1944) featured a recreation of their act with Al Shean as himself and Jack Kenny portraying Gallagher. Gallagher's wife, Helen, became a partner in Gallagher's Steak House in New York City, a restaurant that was named after her.

In anticipation of the extravaganza, The New York Tribune profiled 15 of the show’s chorines. 

“Haver Dickenson and Walter Brower were engaged as comedians but were found not guilty of the charge.” ~  Kelcey Allen, WOMEN’S WEAR DAILY

“We expect better things from you, Mr. Shubert, and we know you can do them, so why not?” ~ THEATRE MAGAZINE

Cinderella on Broadway included several male characters played by women. above are the costumes designed for those characters. (Courtesy of Shubert Archive)

Cinderella returned to Atlantic City, albeit in different forms like the Cinderella Ballet and Cinderella the rock band. 

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Scenes from the Black Tom Explosion, Jersey City, July 30, 1916.

“On Sunday morning, July 30, 1916, at 2:08 a.m., one of the worst terrorist attacks in American history took place at Black Tom Island, New Jersey, a shipping facility located in New York Harbor. Under cover of darkness, German agents detonated more than 2 million pounds of ammunition that was awaiting shipment to England. The explosion—the equivalent of an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale—was felt and heard as far away as Philadelphia and southern Connecticut. Windows were shattered across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Jersey City, and to this day the torch of the Statue of Liberty remains closed to visitors due to the damage it sustained from flying shrapnel. Amazingly, though dozens of dock workers, fire fighters, and civilians were injured, fewer than 10 people lost their lives in the blast.

Initially, the cause of the explosion was unclear. Almost before the fires were extinguished, however, multiple explanatory theories were put forth, with hypotheses ranging from the spontaneous combustion of unstable munitions to sparks from a passing freight train. Some initial evidence seemed to point to dock workers who, in an effort to ward off the clouds of mosquitoes that swarmed the waterfront, had carelessly lit smoke pots, sparking fires that subsequently ignited the ordnance. Most Americans, though, goaded by sensational stories in the press, soon began to subscribe to a more sinister line of speculation: that is, that German operatives or sympathizers had blown up the ammunition to prevent it from being shipped to, and used by, the Allies.

From the outset, Kaiser Wilhelm II and his government steadfastly denied any involvement in the matter. Nevertheless, the extensive media coverage of the Black Tom incident, coupled with other contemporary reports of espionage and sabotage activities on American soil, helped to further turn public opinion against Germany and her allies. Within a year, angered by a series of real or perceived violations of its sovereignty, the United States declared war on the German Empire.

But this was not the end of the Black Tom Island story.

After the war’s end, the German-American Mixed Claims Commission—the organization charged with assessing war reparations—launched an inquiry into the cause of the blast. Over the next decade and a half, investigators sifted through a mountain of less-than-conclusive evidence, finally ruling in 1939 that Germany had, indeed, supported the attack. By then, however, with another world war looming, the German government under Adolf Hitler was less than inclined to pay the United States $50 million in damages. Ultimately, another 14 years would pass until the two countries agreed that Germany would reconcile all of its outstanding war reparations claims, including those resulting from the Black Tom explosion. The final payment of the settlement was received in 1979, at last bringing the issue to an overdue, official close. Today, the events of July 1916 are commemorated by a memorial at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, which informs visitors that they are “walking on a site which saw one of the worst acts of terrorism in American history.”

For contemporary accounts of the Black Tom Island explosion, New York City newspapers such as The New York Herald Tribune and The New York Times serve as an excellent resource. For more recent treatments of the subject, see journalist Harold Blum’s, Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America, which provides a thorough account of covert German espionage and sabotage operations in the United States during World War I. Other noteworthy treatments of the topic include The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice (2006), by Chad Millman, and Jules Whitcover’s 1989 work, Sabotage at Black Tom: Imperial Germany's Secret War in America, 1914-1917.” - article by Michael Inman, NYPL

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