Dictatorship USA – A Plundering and Predatory Nation — 2018 (52)

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Flood of Pig Poop on North Carolina
LifeScience, Sept. 19, 2018

Heavy flooding from Hurricane Florence is causing a pig poop problem in North Carolina.

Pig waste often gets flushed into nearby lagoons in the state, and because of the heavy rain and flooding from the tropical storm, 21 such pig-manure lagoons "overtopped" and released that pig waste into the environment, according to numbers released by North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality.

At least 36 other similar lagoons are likely to also overflow — and five are structurally damaged, according to the department.

North Carolina is the second largest hog-farming state in the U.S. It has around 2,100 industrial-size hog farms with waste lagoons that hold pig manure and poop-eating bacteria. As for the source of the waste, the state houses over 9 million pigs.

If waste gets out of these pig-waste lagoons, it could wreak havoc on the environment.

The hog lagoons and their farms could harm human health. For example, excess nitrate in groundwater (that can also come from pig manure) could potentially cause what's called blue baby syndrome — a condition caused by contaminated drinking water in which nitrogen can block the ability of red blood cells to carry enough oxygen, causing a baby's skin to turn blue.


The number released by the state's department of Environmental Quality is based on reports from farmers. And the number of affected lagoons may well be higher.

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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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Dictatorship USA – A Personal History – Part 42

Arnold Lockshin – a pawn in a very dirty and very important game (1)...



Designing an excuse to brutally fire me...


Everything was well planned beforehand. Lockshin had been presented with an “unsolvable” problem: to increase the concentration of thymidine so that it would be therapeutically effective. Then declare the prime psychological warfare target a “failure” and use this as a pretext for his sudden firing.

Lockshin in fact solved the problem before him (see previous two posts). But that did not in any way stop the Gestapo machine that had been set in motion. In October, 1986 in the United States, and to a lesser extent in other countries, a massive CIA-directed propaganda onslaught was generated to declare me incompetent, crazy and unable to perform scientific research. I have outlined this ugly campaign in chapters 3 and 5 of “Silent Terror” and will not repeat that material here.


Is Lockshin “complaining” too much?...


The astute reader of these notes will observe that my life in the United States was not entirely bad. If the American secret political police and the United States political police dictatorship are irretrievably evil, why didn't they just kill me? Once my revolutionary political convictions had become irreversible and after I had demonstrated an uncompromising willingness to act on them, I was red meat for the American Gestapo.


After all, no ethical, moral, legal, constitutional, practical or any other considerations deter the US secret political police – whether at home or abroad. Suppose Lockshin had been killed (murdered) in, say, 1968, who, frankly speaking, would have given a damn? With the exception of my Mother, no one. And it would have been easy. No questions asked. Nothing to answer for.


Short of outright murder, the US secret political police had and have enormous power to do virtually whatever they deem necessary. For instance, they could easily have prevented me from doing research at Harvard in 1968 or returning to science after I left the “Communist Party.” But they facilitated my re-entry in both cases. The FBI and Co. could have made my life – or what would have been left of it – utterly alone, dead broke, completely desperate; but they did not do so.


The American Gestapo could have easily prevented me from ever leaving the US. But they didn't.


A soft spot in these treacherous bastards? Something they overlooked? A concern for human rights?


Don't bet on it!

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A lucky man...


“I consider myself a lucky man,” I stated (in Russian) to the reporter from the “Московский Комсомолец» in the last interview I intend to give.


Why am I lucky? Because with all the nastiness, lies, harassment and terror I have had to experience, I am the beneficiary (so far, at least) of a significant mistake made by the horrendous and enormous US lie, spy, criminal, provocation, subversion and regime change, terror, drug-runnning, torture, war and mass murder apparatus. And the American Gestapo's mistake was amplified by their ass-licking stooges in the Soviet KGB and Russian FSB.


The mistake has to do with me personally, but was connected with something far more important – the impending final collapse of the Soviet Union. “Collapse,” “downfall,” etc. here are not the precise words, as they imply a spontaneous process. There was nothing unpremeditated about the destruction of the USSR; it was the result of decades-long internal foreign-directed – British imperialist, German Nazi and ultimately and most crucially American imperialist - subversion. The demise had nothing to do with alleged, highly propagandized “defects” of the socialist system (as opposed to the “wonders” of the “free enterprise” system#).

True, external pressures – economic isolation, arming and inciting the Nazi monster, the ensuing “cold war” and arms race – also played a significant role in the Soviet Union's ultimate fate. But it was internal subversion that was the dominant factor.


So where did I come in?


To be continued...


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# Where hundreds of millions, if not billions, of human beings languish in terrible poverty and deprivation.

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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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Dictatorship USA – A Plundering and Predatory Nation — 2018 (51)

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One Million Americans Default On Their Student Loans Each Year
ZeroHedge, Aug. 21, 2018

More than one million American student loan borrowers default on their debt each year, a new report says.

That means by 2023, approximately 40 percent of borrowers are expected to default.

Urban Institute researchers found about 250,000 student loan borrowers see their debts go into default every quarter, and an additional 20,000 to 30,000 borrowers default on their rehabilitated student loans.

The average defaulter is more likely to live in Hispanic and black neighborhoods. Previous research has shown that minorities are more burdened by their education debt because their parents have a lower net wealth as well as higher rates of unemployment.

Millennials are delaying marriage, home-buying and having kids (pretty much delaying the American dream), simply because of their gig-economy job(s) cannot cover debt servicing payments of their loans.

To make the situation worse, defaulting on student loans increases the balance, likely due to collection fees and the accumulation of interest.

These myriad consequences that come with a default can be hard to recover from. Student debt is a crisis that many Americans will not be able to recover from. The College Board, a non-profit organization, says the average cost of a U.S. degree is $34,740 a year at a private college, minus living costs.

Graduates of the Class of 2016 owe a staggering $37,000 each in student loans. Total Student Loans Owned and Securitized, Outstanding has surpassed the $1.5 trillion mark in 2018, which is second only to home mortgages among categories of consumer debt and the main reason Americans’ household debt has swelled to a record high.

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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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Dictatorship USA – A Personal History – Part 41

The American Gestapo blocks a promising cancer treatment (2)...


It is worth describing my research in some detail and the sabotage ordered by the FBI.


Solving the thymidine concentration problem was actually quite straightforward (see previous post). No one at the Stehlin Foundation or anywhere in the US had actually determined the maximum (at saturation) solubility of the compound! Only intellectual sloppiness can explain this gross oversight.


As a naturally occurring – and, in fact, essential – biological compound, thymidine in normal bodily concentration is not at all cytotoxic. Moreover, breakdown and excretion mechanisms for the compound are well known. It would have been logical to expect that only infusion of a highly concentrated thymidine solution could overwhelm the normal biological degradation mechanisms and thus have therapeutic effect.


I set about determining the actual maximum solubility of thymidine in infusion fluid and found out that the saturation concentration was considerably higher than that which had been arbitrarily selected for the clinial trials. Moreover, in conformity with the behavior of most solutes, the saturation concentration increases with higher temperatures: warming the physiological buffer solution to or near normal body temperature significantly increased the maximum dissolved thymidine concentration.


In planning laboratory experiments, I selected as the test model a rapidly-proliferating human melanoma inoculated into nude mice (see previous post). The results were quite amazing. Repeated infusions were necessary to achieve an observable therapeutic effect, but for the majority of these fragile experimental animals, tumor regression (disappearance) was complete. In most cases, the implanted tumor shrunk and then was entirely resorbed, leaving a benign scar and a healthy mouse.


It is widely considered that the nude mouse model for human tumors is the best preclinical predictor of clinical effectiveness.


When I presented the summary of my research to Giovanella, usually a cool customer, he became livid. “You'll kill the patient by clogging up his veins,” he belched. Hardly likely, as the concentrated thymidine would immediately become enormously diluted upon entering the blood stream. In any case, a fine filter could be attached to the infusor to be doubly and triply sure that no particles entered.


In “Silent Terror,” I described Giovanella's repeated attempt to sabotage my publications:

“To discourage me from publishing scientific papers, Giovanella kept my manuscripts on his desk for weeks or months without reading them. When I reminded him about a manuscript, he often 'forgot' that I had handed it to him, even though as laboratory director, he usually was listed as a co-author. Normally, any scientist is eager to expedite publication of research from his laboratory and gives this priority. Concurrently, Giovanella pointedly read unrelated papers and would willingly discuss these at length. Giovanella had no scientific basis for downgrading my research...” (p. 92)


In this way, Giovanella held up publication of the concentrated thymidine results for several months. Eventually, I threatened to send the manuscript without his co-authorship to the scientific journal, and only then did he “find the time” to read it. And the peer-reviewed manuscript eventually was published.

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Dirty FBI deception, lies – and miscalculation - from the word “go”...


What was at stake here was the secret political police directive to find a plausible excuse to precipitously fire me at the appropriate time. And from a psychological warfare perspective, to convince me personally that I had been a “failure,” thus sapping my self-confidence and readiness to combat all the lies splattered about me throughout the US mass media after my forced exile.


Prior to my arriving at the Stehlin Foundation, Stehlin, Giovanella and the other US Gestapo-recruited scientists had concluded (a) that the thymidine (concentration) problem could not be solved; (b) that Lockshin would flounder in frustration; and (c) that his “failure” would serve as the pretext for the FBI-Stehlin-Giovanella consortium to peremptorily fire me as a key element in the harassment and terror campaign that forced me to exit the US for the USSR.

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Concentrated thymidine remains a promising drug for metastatic melanoma...


Only controlled clinical trials can determine whether or not a particular drug or treatment is efficacious. However, given the refractory response to established therapies and the very poor patient prognosis for metastatic melanoma (see previous post), the experimental preclinical evidence argues strongly in favor of conducting trials with concentrated thymidine. Clinical experimentation with this preparation was blocked entirely because of the dirty – incredibly filthy, and possibly murderous – directive of the US secret political police to smash Lockshin and not because of any scientific or medical consideration or any thought of the well-being of the many hundreds of thousands of human beings afflicted with this terrible disease.


It is reasonable to postulate that the mechanism of action of the potential drug relates to greatly overloading the in vivo thymidine/cytosine ratio and inducing a DNA mismatch in a critical gene's Watson-Crick base pair.


Evidence supporting such a postulate is the synergistic# effect of 3-deazauridine, a cytosine synthetase inhibitor##, with thymidine on tumor cells###.


It is entirely conceivable that such a drug combination could further reduce the volume of thymidine-containing infusate required for treatment.

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# synergistic: relating to the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.

## “3-Deazauridine is a synthetic analogue of nucleoside uridine lacking a ring nitrogen in the 3-position. 3-deazauridine inhibits cytidine synthase, thereby reducing intracellular levels of cytidine and deoxycytidine and disrupting DNA and RNA synthesis.” (National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine)

### Cytotoxic and Biochemical Effects of Thymidine and 3-Deazauridine on Human Tumor Cells, Cancer Research 44, 2534-2539 (1984), A.Lockshin et al.

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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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Dictatorship USA – A Plundering and Predatory Nation — 2018 (50)

Факты, которые подконтрольные ЦРУ СМ»И» в России скрывают...



Death Of A Nation: Drug Overdose Deaths Jump To Record 72,000 Last Year
ZeroHedge, Aug. 17, 2018

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates drug overdose deaths based on a current flow of mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System has just reached a record of 71,568 Americans in 2017. That is a 6.6 percent jump in overdose deaths over 2016 and represents a rapid deterioration of America’s inner core: The middle class.
The third wave of the opioid epidemic is here, as new synthetics [fentanyl analogs] that are 10,000 times as potent as morphine and used to tranquilize elephants are attributing to the latest surge in deaths.
For context, drug overdoses killed more Americans last year (71,568) than the Vietnam War (58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties).
Overdoses outpaced fatalities from suicide, or from influenza, and pneumonia, which claimed about 44,000 and 57,000 lives, respectively, in 2016. Drug overdoses almost rivaled the 79,500 people who die from diabetes each year in the U.S., which is the 7th leading cause of death.
But there is no comparison to the 150,000 Americans that die each year from automobile crashes.

The drug epidemic is so concerning that opioid-related deaths have shifted the overall life expectancy rate for the U.S. lower for the second consecutive year.
America is in decline. Drug overdoses are at record levels. So…what now?
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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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Dictatorship USA – A Personal History – Part 40

The American Gestapo blocks a promising cancer treatment (1)...


In “Silent Terror,” I briefly discussed the issue at hand:


“I began work on my first scientific problem at the St.Joseph Hospital Laboratory.# Earlier, researchers at the Laboratory had found that prolonged treatment with thymidine, a naturally occurring compound, caused growth inhibition or regression of certain human tumors implanted in nude mice... Clinical trials were initiated at several institutions. In some cases there was a modest antitumor effect, but many patients were underdosed because the drug was insufficiently concentrated. Stehlin and Giovanella## insisted that a major breakthrough in cancer therapy would be achieved if thymidine could be prepared in a more concentrated form. It was my job to find out how. The problem was solved###, and Stehlin wrote:

“'We have done a tremendous amount of experimental work on Tdr (thymidine) during the past few years. Dr. Lockshin is a hardworking and extremely bright scientist. He is overly modest and conservative in evaluating his own work...

“'We must continue this work because I firmly believe something very good will come of it.'


“Whether or not concentrated thymidine would help cancer patients could only be determined by clinical studies, which Stehlin and Giovanella had promised to pursue. But they refused to continue this work. No cancer patient ever received this preparation.” (“Silent Terror,” p. 23)


Explanation of scientific terms:

“(Deoxy)thymidine is a nucleoside composed of deoxyribose (a pentose sugar) joined to the pyrimidine base thymine... (Deoxy)thymidine is one of the four nucleosides in DNA it is a naturally occurring compound that exists in all living organisms and DNA viruses.” (Thymidine, Wikipedia)

“A nude mouse is a laboratory mouse from a strain with a genetic mutation that causes a deteriorated or absent thymus, resulting in an inhibited immune system due to a greatly reduced number of T cells. The phenotype (main outward appearance) of the mouse is a lack of body hair, which gives it the "nude" nickname. The nude mouse is valuable to research because it can receive many different types of tissue and tumor grafts...” (Nude mouse, Wikipedia)


Metastatic melanoma – a terrible disease...


The clinical trials that were held before my arrival in Houston were on melanoma patients. Disseminated (Stage IV, metastatic) melanoma was – and remains to this day - a particularly intractable and often rapidly proliferating tumor:


“Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer. Globally, in 2012, it newly occurred in 232,000 people. In 2015 there were 3.1 million with active disease which resulted in 59,800 deaths.


“Melanomas are usually caused by DNA damage resulting from exposure to ultraviolet light from the sun. Genetics also plays a role.


“Various chemotherapy agents, including temozolomide, dacarbazine (also termed DTIC), immunotherapy (with interleukin-2 (IL-2) or interferon (IFN)), as well as local perfusion, are used by different centers. The overall success in metastatic melanoma is quite limited.


“When there is distant metastasis, the cancer is generally considered incurable. The five-year survival rate is less than 10%. The median survival is 6–12 months. Treatment is palliative, focusing on life extension and quality of life.” (Melanoma, Wikipedia)


“The risk of melanoma increases as people age. The average age of people when it is diagnosed is 63. But melanoma is not uncommon even among those younger than 30. In fact, it’s one of the most common cancers in young adults (especially young women).” (Key Statistics for Melanoma Skin Cancer, The American Cancer Society, 2018)


“Because stage IV melanoma is hard to cure with current treatments, patients may want to think about taking part in a clinical trial...” (The American Cancer Society, 2018)

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One would like to think that treament of such a terrible disease would be a humanitarian, medical concern. But the secret political police of police-state dictatorship USA had and have a different point of view.


The depravity of fascist CIA/FBI etc. murderers lacking any human feeling whatsoever.


To be continued...

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# The Stehlin Foundation was associated with St. Joseph's Hospital.

## See previous post.

### Antitumor activity and minimal toxicity of concentrated thymidine infused in nude mice
(Cancer Research 45, 1797-1802 · (1985), A, Lockshin et al.)


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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

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US Household Debt Hits Record $13.3 Trillion

ZeroHedge, August 14, 2018

Total household debt hit a new record high, rising by $82 billion to $13.29 trillion in Q2 of 2018, 3.5% higher than a year earlier according to the NY Fed's latest household debt report. It was the 16th consecutive quarter with an increase in household debt, and the total is now $618 billion higher than the previous peak of $12.68 trillion, from the third quarter of 2008.

Mortgage balances—the largest component of household debt—rose by $60 billion during the second quarter, to $9.00 trillion. Credit card debt rose by $14 billion to $829 billion; auto loan debt increased by $9 billion in the quarter to $1.24 trillion and student loan debt hit a record high of $1.41 trillion, an increase of $2 billion in Q2.

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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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Dictatorship USA – A Personal History – Part 39

Back to being a scientist...


It was summer 1977, and I had to get out of the filthy, stinking scum of a totally FBI-run “Communist Party USA.”

To supplement my miserable “CP” salary, the US secret political police had set up Lauren to earn money working the phone as a part-timer in marketing research. But family survival dictated (so I thought at the time) that I needed to become a research scientist again. I phoned my thesis advisor, Dr. Robert Burris in Madison, and asked him to provide recommendations as I applied for a new position. Burris knew of my politics, and I was rather surprised when he said he would gladly recommend me.


I was gratified that Burris would facilitate my return to science. Years later, I understood the method in this madness. The US secret political police could easily have banned me from employment anywhere. However, totally unknown to me at the time, the FBI/CIA had far bigger plans for me (to be discussed in later posts) and at the time starving me - and my “family” - did not serve the US Gestapo's long-term objectives.


I was prepared to move anywhere in the US to obtain new work. But in fact I obtained a position right in Los Angeles at USC (the University of Southern California). Peter Danenberg, who had been a postdoctoral fellow in Madison, accepted me – no political or personal questions asked, as he had received a highly positive recommendation from Burris.


“Dr, Peter Danenberg... did postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Charles Heidelberger at the University of Wisconsin's McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. The initial phase of Dr. Danenberg's research career involved studies on the mechanisms of action of cancer drugs, with particular emphasis on the interaction of the fluorinated pyrimidines with the enzyme thymidylate synthase. This work ultimately gave rise to the still widely-used drug combination of 5-fluorourcil and folinic acid. His subsequent research was directed at identifying tumor biomarkers that would predict response to anti-cancer agents with the aim of promoting the concept of personalized medicine in cancer. Positive results from these studies, together with a procedure that Dr. Danenberg patented for isolating intact mRNA from paraffin-embedded tissues, formed the basis for the founding of the biotech-diagnostic company Response Genetics, Inc.” (Peter Danenberg, PhD | Keck School of Medicine of USC)

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USC required all applicants to sign an anti-communist (“anti-subversive” loyalty oath) declaration, which I refused to do. Oh well, no work for me at USC. No! My refusal to lie about my past and my convictions was ignored. More “good luck.”


It goes without saying that Danenberg, his wife Kathy (who was a lab assistant) and everyone else in the rather small research building (about 50 people in all) were fully alerted about me by the FBI.


The research went well. I worked very hard, and we published several papers in leading scientific journals. Neither my communist past nor my eight years absence from science appeared to not obstruct my future professional prospects as a research scientist. Odd. But I accepted what appeared to be good fortune as it was handed to me.


Of course, matters in the police-state dictatorship of the USA could not be and cannot be that simple.
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On to Houston, Texas...


After 3 years at USC, it was time to move on. I applied for a faculty position at several universities, but could make no headway. Then, out of the blue, the Stehlin Foundation for Cancer Research (which I had even not heard of before) in Houston, Texas offered me a relatively well-paying job as their Head of Pharmacology. Allegedly, on the recommendation of Dr. Charles Heidelberger, who was a member of the Foundation's advisory board.


“Charles Heidelberger (December 23, 1920 – January 18, 1983) was a cancer researcher who developed and patented an anticancer drug called 5-Fluorouracil# that remains widely used against cancers of the stomach, colon and breast. He was also director of basic research at the University of Southern California's Comprehensive Cancer Center... and was a Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California. Elected to the National Academy of Science, U.S.A. In 1978.” (Charles Heidelberger, Wikipedia)


The Stehlin Foundation was given lavish publicity in the Houston mass media:

Stehlin Foundation notes 40 years of cancer research (Houston Chronicle, Dec. 14, 2010)

“After many years of practice treating cancer in the late 1960s, distinguished surgical oncologist Dr. John Stehlin wanted to marry science and medicine in creating a world-class laboratory to study and develop more effective treatments for cancer patients.

“For that reason he left MD Anderson in 1969 for St. Joseph's Hospital with the promise that he could develop research. At St. Joseph's he met Dr. Beppino Giovanella, director of the laboratory. In combining clinical practice with scientific research..."

“To support his cancer research, Stehlin established the Stehlin Foundation for Cancer Research. In the 40 years since that time, the now titled Christus Stehlin Foundation for Cancer Research has devoted study solely concentrated on human cancers.”

In fact, the Stehlin Foundation was set up by the FBI as an “asset” or front organization:

“Intelligence agencies use front organizations to provide "cover", plausible occupations and means of income, for their covert agents. These may include legitimate organizations, such as charity, religious or journalism organizations; or "brass plate firms" which exist solely to provide a plausible background story, occupation, and means of income.” (Front organization, Wikipedia)

Whatever its other commissioned police-state operations, the Stehlin Foundation became an FBI holding operation for me. Until the American Gestapo's plans called for forcing me to flee the United States and find refuge in the Soviet Union. More about this crucial element of the Arnold Lockshin story in later posts.

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# In a twist of fate, 5-fluorouracil was the key drug administered to me in Moscow during adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery for a very large malignant tumor in my colon.


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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Trump doubles down on his lie
Think Progress, Sept. 15, 2018

Late Friday night, President Trump returned to a recent target of his: the official death toll Hurricane Maria inflicted on Puerto Rico.

As Hurricane Florence unleashed historic rainfall and flooding upon the Carolinas, Trump seemingly could not let criticism of how badly he handled last year’s deadly hurricane go.

Trump argued that the additional deaths happened “long AFTER the hurricane took place.”

Then he described the rising death toll — to 64 and then to 3,000 — rising “like magic.” He criticized George Washington University researchers for their analysis of the death toll.

Hurricane Katrina caused well over a thousand deaths in 2005, but to this day there is no single accurate death toll number.

The report Trump attacked, independently conducted by George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health researchers estimated 2,975 deaths, which is closer to earlier independent estimates of the storm’s death. They found that the death rate in the six months following the storm increased dramatically compared to historical patterns.

Not every hurricane casualty happens as a result of the physical storm’s wind and water. Some people die after systems that the storm destroys fail to provide the medical, food, power, or safety functions they had relied upon prior to the storm. The whole point of disaster response is to restore safety and then previous functionality of those systems to allow residents to rebuild.
Instead of sympathy from the president for the heartache and loss endured by victims’ families, Trump leveled caustic attacks.

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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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Dictatorship USA – A Personal History – Part 38

Rob Baker's co-journalist...

What has happened with our hero Rob Baker has not been ascertained. Possibly because the FBI pig used an alias; probably because that name is very common in the US, making it difficult to locate that specific individual.

Finding about his stooge PW coworker, Keta Miranda#, has been easier.

“In 1991 Keta Miranda, Southern California was one of several hundred Communist Party USA members to sign the a paper 'An initiative to Unite and Renew the Party' - most signatories left the Party...” (Keta Miranda, KeyWiki)


“Dr. Marie "Keta" Miranda is an associate professor in Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She received her Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Miranda, a cultural ethnographer, has published several studies related to contemporary Chicana gang members in California...” (College of Education and Human Development, The University of Texas at San Antonio)

Yet another example of an FBI lackey finding a warm home in the American university system.


Kevin Akin, the “Party's” young steelworker FBI flunky...


Akin and his wife Margie are still playing the fake role of “progressives:”

“Kevin Akin of Riverside is a retired hospital maintenance worker who has been an activist in the Peace and Freedom Party and for peace and social justice since he was a teenager. He was the Peace and Freedom Party nominee for State Treasurer in 1982 and is running again in 2018... Kevin worked at Kaiser Steel in Fontana from 1973 until the plant was closed in 1983, and was active in the Steelworkers Union the whole time.” (Election 2018: Kevin Akin for State Treasurer - Peace and Freedom Party, 30 January 2018)

No answer...

I sent my critique of Baker's damaging articles to Gus Hall and “CP” Labor Secretary George Myers. I demanded action and got no response; obviously, this FBI “journalistic” hireling was home free.

Stooges, stooges, stooges everywhere...

Clearly, the agent problem was not confined to the Healeyites or to the Southern California District, but was a generalized virulent disease throughout the “Party.” It was not just the Baker issue, but the entire conduct of this phony outfit: high-sounding, boastful oratory and brash pronunciamentos, the inevitable internal squabbles that disrupted everything of apparent potential benefit and the deadening “inertia” that infested over 90% of the membership with the remaining 5-10% engaged in meaningless pseudo-pursuits.

Speaking out. To what effect...?

I still hoped that maybe, maybe someone in the “CP” leadership was not an FBI bastard, or at least that there might be honest rank-and-file members or sympathizers around somewhere.

I spoke at the People's World Anniversary meeting on March 23, 1975 on the theme “The CIA-FBI Conspiracy: Exposure and Cover-up” and I managed to get the speech published as a flyer. Of course, I could not mention any names. I was also able to publish the first of two articles in the “Party's” “theoretical journal” Political Affairs: “The CIA: Instrument of US Foreign Policy” (March, 1975).

The Big Boss supports Baker, William Taylor, the whole pack of enemy agents...

Then “Mr. American Communist” - and filthy lifelong FBI agent - Gus Hall flew into Los Angeles to deal with me. With “CP” national attorney John Abt in tow. Hall, a self-proclaimed co-founder of the national steelworkers union, had nothing negative to say about Rob Baker and his slimy steelworker “reporting.” Instead, the thoroughly rotten General Secretary berated me for “overestimating” the role of the enemy in the “Party.” For me personally, the charade was almost over.

A Diogenes searching for a single honest communist...

Now it was a question of trying to find a single honest communist or at least sympathizer anywhere. I tried to initiate a movement in LA against unemployment and inflation, and for a short time was able to enlist phony support from a handful of “comrades.” Nothing meaningful developed.

I was able to publish the second of my Political Affair articles, “Propaganda in the Battle for Men's Minds” (June 1976), which was based mainly on Arbatov's book. In early 1977, I ran as an independent candidate for the LA Community College Board of Trustees (Silent Terror, p. 20), hoping to unearth genuine revolutionaries with whom I could find common ground.

Nothing worked, which was far from suprising. The “Communist Party” was entirely discredited, mainly because of the all-encompassing anti-communism that was dogma in the US, but also due to the non-ending mendacious. deceitful and empty actions of “Party” members and leaders.
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# You can note Miranda's PW byline in Photograph 8 in “Silent Terror.”

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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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The World Is Drowning In Debt
ZeroHedge, Aug. 13, 2018


Debt has hit another record high. The global debt just reached $247 trillion for the first quarter of this year. That is $29 trillion higher than two years ago. The global debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds 318 percent. The U.S. debt to GDP exceeds 100 percent. The flood waters are rising, the dams are broken, and we are literally drowning in debt.

Emerging markets, such as Argentina and Nigeria, have accumulated $58.5 in debt, $900 billion of which are in U.S. bonds which will mature in 2020. When interest rates eventually rise, as they will, repayment and refinancing will be more difficult and expensive. Some debts, without a doubt, will be defaulted.

Burgeoning debt, combined with low interest rates, poses a tremendous economic risk.

With rising interest rates looming and trade war between the U.S. and China a real possibility, there are reasons for concern.

Where there is debt, interest payments follow. If current fiscal policies, including President’s Trump’s tax cuts, continue, interest payments could climb to $1.05 trillion by 2028.

The current policy of tax cuts and increased spending are decreasing instead of increasing the federal revenues which would allow for repayment.

The Federal Reserve continues to print fiat money with abandon, literally throwing fake money at the problem.

Social Security, a debt owed to America’s elderly, is expected to run out of funds in 12 years.

Does any American family want to face interest payments as the largest portion of its budget? Neither should the government.

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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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Dictatorship USA – A Personal History – Part 37

Beginning to peel back the layers...


The Rob Baker articles...


Clearly, the Healeyite factionalists within the Southern California District of the “Communist Party USA” were anti-communists and enemies. But they could not be the end of it.


The FBI's “use of informants to disrupt a group's activities...” (see post 35 of this series) had to go well beyond the overt “oppositionists” in the “Party.” Analyzing the activities and positions of the non-factionalist “comrades,” I initially identified six internal enemy agents, 3 Black and 3 white. The whites were Aaron Cohen, manager of the “Party” bookstore, alleged Spanish Civil War veteran Bob Klonsky#, and People's World reporter Rob Baker. The Blacks included the District “Party” Chairman William C. Taylor and two youth “activists,” Gregory Binion and Hank Hucles.


Rob Baker (which may not have been his real name) was the easiest to focus on, as his disruptive activities were also evident in his “reporting.” Baker, “the long‐haired publicity director who (was) the only white on the national staff” of the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis##, had moved to Malibu (a wealthy suburb in western LA County) from Northern California. Baker published regularly in the “Party's” west-coast weekly, the People's World, and occasionally in the “CP's” national newspaper, The Daily World### as well as in the “underground” pornography-laden LA Free Press.


Baker and Kaiser Steel Fontana...


The large Kaiser Steel plant in Fontana, about an hour's drive east of Los Angeles, was the “Party's” “concentration plant.” a designation which amounted to little more than occasionally handing out a couple of hundred copies of the PW as workers drove into the plant.


“Kaiser Steel was founded by Henry J. Kaiser to provide steel plate for the Pacific Coast shipbuilding industry, which expanded during World War II, then shrank, then expanded again during the Korean War... Its assets included steelmaking plants in Napa, California and Fontana, California (now operated by California Steel Industries)...” (Kaiser Steel, Wikipedia)


The immediate issue on hand with Baker was the articles he wrote about a contract settlement between Kaiser Steel and the steelworkers' union, the USW. In his verbose front-page feature PW article – which was distributed in a larger than usual volume at the plant gates - Baker in point after point depicted the settlement as a total sell out of the workers' interests and a betrayal of their rights by the union leadership. However, in his article published in the DW and distributed shortly thereafter at a national USW gathering (conference or convention), Baker took the exact opposite tack. He wrote about the very same settlement as a solid victory for the rank-and-file and a big step forward in advancing the steelworkers' well being!


The “Party's” one “comrade” in the steel mill, Kevin Akin, reported that during the next local meeting the Fontana union president brought up the two flagrantly contradictory articles and at length denounced the “Party” for utter deceit and lying. Not without cause.


I set to work composing a detailed analysis of both articles, indicating that there could not have been anything accidental about this foul “reportage” and stating that these wildly contradictory articles amounted to sabotage of the “Party's” work at this most important, “concentration” factory. (In reality, this “concentration” was as much of a sham as anything else the “CP” did, but I was not fully aware of that salient fact at the time.)


At the next meeting of the District “Secretariat,” composed of Bill Taylor, Lorenzo Torres and myself, I brought up the Baker's obviously pernicious “reportage” and characterized him as an FBI agent. As expected, Taylor rose to Baker's defense, excusing the wildly contradictory articles and demanding that I work more closely with this “brilliant, young comrade” (Baker was about my age) to help him overcome his (trivial) mistakes.


Torres, who bragged about his working class background####, also found nothing objectionable about the two diametrically opposed articles. Torres, notwithstanding his status as a “leading comrade” and a full-timer, was among the great majority of “Party” drones who did nothing more than attend occasional meetings. All the same, he was the foremost Chicano* “communist,” not only in the District but in the “Party” nationwide.


The upshot: absolutely nothing would be done about Baker or the “brilliant young comrade's” obviously disruptive “reporting” or the “Party” media which published his malicious trash.


More clearly than before, enemies were in effective charge of the Southern California District of the “Communist Party USA.”


And obviously, not only there.


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# Klonsky's son Michael was the Chairman of a manifestly FBI “sham organizations for disruptive purposes,” the overtly bitterly anti-Soviet and anti-Cuban “Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) (United States).” (Communist Party [Marxist–Leninist] [United States], Wikipedia)

## The Campaign To Free Angela Davis ...and Mitchell Magee, (The New York Times, June 27, 1971)

### “For decades, (the Communist Party's) West Coast newspaper was the People's World and its East Coast newspaper was The Daily World. The two newspapers merged in 1986 into the People's Weekly World. The People's Weekly World has since become an online only publication called People's World. The party's former theoretical journal, Political Affairs, is now also published exclusively online.” (Communist Party USA, Wikipedia)

#### “Torrez and his wife Anita, and scores of other miner families starred in "Salt of the Earth," a film about a bitter 1950 strike at the Empire Zinc Corporation mine in Bayard, N.M. led by the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union (MMSWU)... The MMSWU was expelled from the CIO. The union later merged with the United Steelworkers of America.” (Presente! Lorenzo Torrez, copper miner, Communist leader, Political Affairs, Jan. 9, 2012)

* “Chicano or Chicana is a chosen identity of some Mexican Americans in the United States. The term Chicano is sometimes used interchangeably with Mexican-American... The term became widely used during the Chicano Movement by Mexican Americans to express pride in a shared cultural, ethnic and community identity.” (Chicano, Wikipedia)

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Trump's charged history with race

TheGuardian, Aug. 10, 2018



A new book by Omarosa Manigault-Newman, a former top adviser to Donald Trump, has raised fresh controversy with her claims that the president she served is a racist who was once recorded on tape using the “N-word”. For Trump, it is the latest chapter in a charged history with race and minorities.

Manigault-Newman, who is African American, left the White House last December and censured a lack of diversity in the Trump administration. The allegations made by Manigault-Newman come just days after Trump drew backlash for mocking the intelligence of NBA superstar LeBron James and CNN anchor Don Lemon.

Trump launched a scathing attack on James after the basketball star, in an interview with Lemon, criticized the president for using his bully pulpit to divide Americans. “Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon,” Trump tweeted. “He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do.”

Trump’s comments fit within a pattern of questioning the intelligence of black public figures; the president has similarly taken aim at Maxine Waters, a black congresswoman from California, by repeatedly stating she has a “very low IQ”.


Trump’s troubled relationship with race is hardly new. The former real estate mogul launched his political career by peddling the false conspiracy theory that Barack Obama, the first black president in US history, was born in Kenya and calling for the release of his birth certificate.

On the campaign trail, Trump routinely sought to sow racial divisions by referring to urban areas as “war-zones” and inciting violence against Black Lives Matter protesters. The presidency has done little to change Trump’s rhetoric or tone. He infamously blamed both sides for violence led by white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August, and referred to certain parts of Africa and Latin America as “shithole countries”.

As part of his recurring feud with black athletes, Trump has called for the firing of NFL players who kneel during the national anthem and attacked them as “sons of bitches”. He has openly questioned the patriotism of the players, whose protests are designed to draw attention to police brutality and the need for criminal justice reform.

In the early 1970s, the US justice department sued Trump Management for racial discrimination against African Americans at their rental properties in New York. Trump, who was named as a defendant, settled the case.

And in 1989, Trump ran a full-page ad calling for the death penalty for five black and Latino men in the notorious Central Park Five case. The men, who were convicted of rape, were later exonerated based on DNA evidence. That did not stop Trump, however, from continuing to insist they were guilty while campaigning for president more than decades later.

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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

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Dictatorship USA – A Personal History – Part 36

Psychological warfare...


The complimentary – and no less important - part of my education came from reading “Идеологическая борьба в современных международных отношениях. Доктрина, методы и организация внешнеполитической пропаганды империализма, Moscow 1970” by Гео́ргий Арба́тов, when the English translation of this book became available in the US: “The War of Ideas in Contemporary International Relations: The Imperialist Doctrine, Methods and Organisation of Foreign Political Propaganda” by Georgi Arbatov, 1973.


Arbatov's work, along with “A Textbook of Dialectical Materialism” by David Gest (see post 7 of this series) were the two most influential books of my life. The rather turgid English translation of Arbatov's opus itself has interesting – occasionally, even important – moments. But the main impact of the book was to open up for me published works on psychological warfare.


For a short period immediately following World War II, practioners of psychological warfare from the US and to a lesser degree from England were given the go-ahead to advertise their wares. The aim was to popularize among the elite the powerful potential of this diabolical weapon in the all-important post-war “fight against communism.” The methodology relies heavily on pyschological manipulations aimed at divorcing reality from its reasoned perception and on combining disinformation with provocative actions.


Prior to reading Arbatov's book, I was totally unaware of this body of literature (the most important books are listed in the References section of “Silent Terror”). I then repeatedly visited the Los Angeles Central Library to checkout and read virtually everything I could find on the topic.


What was described in the main were examples of US and British psychological warfare tactics that had been employed against the Nazis during the war, and no doubt the menu was circumscribed. Nonetheless, the overall picture was clear: psychological warfare was and is a potent, everyday weapon of the US imperialist ruling class abroad and within the country itself. The so-called “Communist Party USA” was/is itself a psychwar product and vehicle. The leaders and some others of the “CP” were adept, some highly so, in proclaiming socialist ideology and employing deception to give the false impression of being fighters against the evil capitalist system. On the whole, this slimy deceit was and is highly effective.


Armed with this new information, I started digging into the CP in a way that I had not thought of before.


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Before we move on, it is worthwhile dealing with Arbatov himself.


The CIA-authorized biography of the one-time chief Soviet “expert” on the United States:

“Georgy Arkadyevich Arbatov (Russian: Гео́ргий Арка́дьевич Арба́тов, 19 May 1923, – 1 October 2010) was a Soviet and Russian political scientist who served as an adviser to five General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was best known in the West during the Cold War era as a representative for the policies of the Soviet Union in the United States, where his fluent English helped make him a frequent guest on American television. He was the founding Director and later Emeritus Director of the Institute of USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Soviet and Russian think tank for the study of USA and Canada.


“... Arbatov credited himself as one of those individuals who had worked to implement reform 'from the inside, and not from the outside, of the system' that laid the groundwork for the reforms implemented in the 1980s by Mikhail Gorbachev.” Arbatov was someone “who 'was probably willing more than anybody else to stick his neck out' to mitigate the influence of anti-American hard liners in the Soviet regime...'”# (emphasis added)


“Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Arbatov was an adviser to the State Duma and a member of the foreign policy council of the foreign Ministry Russian Federation between 1991 and 1996.” (Georgy Arbatov, Wikipedia)


The “reforms” that Arbatov advocated and helped implement were, of course, the anti-communist, anti-soviet, counter-revolutionary program of the CIA and its traitorous rat Gorbachev. And then our “expert on America” helped further implement these ultra-reactionary “reforms” under another CIA rat, Yeltsin.

After “Silent Terror” was finally published, I phoned Arbatov no less than 40 times to try to arrange a meeting. Finally, I got through,## but meeting the “expert on America” was a shocking disappointment. Arbatov was cordial enough but opined that “communism was good in theory, but bad in practice.” This from a leading Soviet Commmunist Party member!

It is obvious that Arbatov was one of the many thousands of CIA agents, including those who had captured the leading positions of the government and Communist Party, who brought down the Soviet Union.

And yet he wrote an important book exposing the a powerful psychological warfare weapon of imperialism. Although, of course, Arbatov's exposure did not have and could not have had any practical implementation in the undermined and effectively captured later-Soviet Union.

This episode exemplifies the chicanery and ruthlessness of the United States secret political police, operating in full force at home and abroad. And the two-faced, malicious, slimy and often powerful operations of their stooges.
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# Who exactly were such fictional “anti-American hard liners in the Soviet regime”? Years earlier, Khrushchev and the CIA had effectively cleared out all honest communists from the Soviet Communist Party leadership and government.

## During the Gorbachev era, our escape from the US to the USSR was widely known in the country, which explains why I could even meet Arbatov.

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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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Signs That America Is In Much Worse Trouble Than We All Thought...
TheAmericanDreamBlog, July 30, 2018

Instinctively, most of us know that America is in trouble, but recently it has been impressed upon me that things are much worse than I originally believed.

Our cities are becoming cesspools, our nation is falling apart all around us, and it seems like the number of sick, twisted and depraved people is multiplying. We still have a relatively high standard of living for the moment, but the only reason we can maintain that standard of living is because we are on the greatest debt binge in human history. And once that bubble bursts, I fear for what this nation is going to become, because things are getting really bad out there.

#1 America is “the most dangerous country in the developed world to give birth in”. We all know that our healthcare system is rapidly deteriorating.

The U.S. is the most dangerous country in the developed world to give birth in according to a report.
About 50,000 women are “severely injured” during childbirth, and about 700 women die every year. Half of these deaths could have been prevented, as could the injuries, if correct safety procedures had been followed, according to an investigation by USA Today.

#2 America is full of people that are looking to take advantage of others. During the recent horrific wildfires in northern California, authorities say that there was “a lot of looting”…
With so many people locked out of huge areas of the city, looters had moved in to take advantage, officials said, adding that police patrols are being increased and hat National Guard troops are being brought in to help.

#3 America is a nation of addicts. Today, I came across a survey that found that nearly half of all Americans admit to shopping online (one addiction) while drunk (another addiction)…

#4 America is on a path to financial suicide. The federal government is already 21 trillion dollars in debt, and it is being officially estimated that we will hit the 30 trillion dollar mark by 2028.

#5 America’s major cities are rapidly being transformed into cesspools. The following is an excerpt from a letter that was recently penned by Portland’s police chief…

Our City has become a cesspool. Livability that once made Portland a unique and vibrant city is now replaced with human feces in businesses doorways, in our parks, and on our streets. Aggressive panhandlers block the sidewalks, storefronts, and landmarks like Pioneer Square, discouraging people from enjoying our City. Garbage-filled RVs and vehicles are strewn throughout our neighborhoods. Used needles, drug paraphernalia, and trash are common sights lining the streets and sidewalks of the downtown core area, under our bridges, and freeway overpasses. That’s not what our families, business owners, and tourists deserve.

This is what America has become. We need to take a long look in the mirror, because we are in an advanced state of decline.

Hopefully the American people will start to wake up, because time to turn things around is quickly running out.

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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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Dictatorship USA – A Personal History – Part 35

Los Angeles factionalists on the run. And so what?...


Dorothy Healey, of course was not the only FBI “factionalist” in the Southern California district.


There were many others, including Frank and Donna Wilkinson (see post 20 of this series) and Cliff and Lucy Fried. I have been unable to find out what happened to disrupter Lucy, but fink Cliff Fried is still around: “UPTE-CWA University Professional & Technical Employees – Communication Workers of America, AFL-CIO: Arbitration Review Committee: Cliff Fried (LA – retired)”


Ah, the “good guys” were winning. Healeyites Ben Dobbs (who had been her Organizational Secretary when Healey was the District Organizer) and PW# journalist Sam Kushner both left the District Board, leaving no one of their kind on the District's leading body. And overall the overt saboteurs appeared to be on the defensive.


And so what? Still no organization of anything resembling popular movements in the area! The closest thing to political activity was the once-weekly distribution by a handful of “comrades” of the PW# at factory gates. Which had essentially zero positive effect.


Understanding of reality begins to emerge...


The passages below from Silent Terror mark the disclosures that accelerated my understanding of what the “Communist Party USA” was all about:

“Because the U.S. intelligence apparatus had suffered some significant defeats and exposures, the carefully cultivated image of the United States had become badly tarnished by the 1970s. Public disclosures showed that the United States government was engaged in massive covert operations world-wide and at home. Important aspects of the terrible crimes of the CIA, FBI and other intelligence agencies were revealed...

“Incontrovertible evidence showed that many people, Americans included, had been victimized by the huge intelligence apparatus. The mass media and many institutions had become thoroughly entangled in these operations...

“The international crimes were massive and deadly. It was no longer a secret from the American people that the CIA spent uncounted billions of dollars plotting, spying, disinforming, drug trafficking, bribing, organizing provocations, subverting, murdering, overthrowing legitimate governments and warring.

“In the United States, the FBI and other contingents of secret political police directly and repeatedly disrupted progressive movements. As a result, the lives of many innocent people, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been ruined and lost...” (pp. 62-3)


“FBI covert operations at home are fashioned according to conditions appropriate for the United States. In short, police state methods are applied in a country where the political system must appear to be genuinely democratic... The FBI actively aborts and disrupts genuine mass people's movements within the United States and utilizes great fakery in the process. The FBI's underground psychological warfare campaigns against individuals are part and parcel of these operations...

“A partial picture of the real FBI emerged when the FBI's 'COINTELPRO' (for 'Counter-intelligence Program') operations were disclsed in the 1970s. COINTELPRO unequivocally demonstrated that the FBI used police-state methods aimed at destroying the target by any means necessary. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (Release of Nov. 18, 1974), these activities included 'sending anonymous or fictitious materials to members or groups; dissemination of public record information to media sources; leaking information based on non-public information to media sources; use of informants to disrupt a group's activities; establishing sham organizations for disruptive purposes...'

“This was merely the mild part of the package.

“'The FBI placed citizens under surveillance, surrounded them with agents, penetrated their organizations with a network of informers, wired their offices and homes, gathered confidential information on their plans and activities, and then secretly turned around and used its agents, informers, and information to “expose, disrupt, discredit, or otherwise neutralize dissent.'...

“... the FBI sets up false victims and pseudo-revolutionaries to obscure the serious plots against genuine progressives and activists.” (pp. 65 – 67)


Key phrases: “use of informants to disrupt a group's activities; establishing sham organizations for disruptive purposes... the FBI sets up false victims and pseudo-revolutionaries ”


As these materials appeared, I began to read article after article and book after book to gain a fuller picture of the real United States of America. And of the real “Communist Party USA.”

The result was the beginning of my break with previous naive illusions about bourgeois “democracy,” about the “Party,” about people living in the capitalist cesspool:

(1) Earlier, it was beyond the imagination of then-credulous Arnold how large numbers of people could spend their entire adult lives (in some cases, even starting in adolescence) professing publicly and privately, acting out, emoting, etc. humanitarian, revolutionary beliefs which in fact were the exact opposite of what these people really were and believed. I could not conceive of a rather large organization (some 2,000 – 3,000 “adherents in the so-called “Communist Party”) being composed entirely of such rats. (If there was a single exception besides myself in the “CP,” I could never find such an individual.)


In reality, this vicious fakery is not only possible, but actually is quite straightforward and relatively uncomplicated. The smell of easy money, advancement and a comfortable life can work wonders on the conscience and behavior of vast numbers of people. And phony patriotism can provide an additional impetus. From the standpoint of the American Gestapo - the horrendous US lie, spy, criminal, provocation, subversion and regime change, terror, drug-runnning, torture, war and mass murder apparatus – they have more than ample manpower and vast funds to organize, pay off and manage this filthy work with expertise and enormous power. For them, it becomes almost routine.


(2) Moreover, massive subversion of progressive and revolutionary movements and the substitution of political police-controlled sham organizations are essential for the survival of imperialist USA – and these are processes hardly confined to America.


I was beginning to get wiser, in fact a lot wiser.

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# PW = People's World, at the time the CP's west coast weekly newspaper.


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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Retirees across America are facing a fiscal crisis
MarketWatch, Sept. 11, 2018

Getting older can be tough, and it’s going to get even harder.

Social Security, the government benefit program designed to keep elderly, the disabled and other vulnerable populations out of poverty, doesn’t even cover half of living expenses in 45 states (46 if you include Washington, D.C.), according to data compiled by HowMuch.net. In Hawaii, Social Security covers the least (26.7%), and even in Arkansas, where Social Security covers the highest percentage of living expenses — including median rent, average grocery bills, utilities, transportation and health care costs — at 52.9%, it barely covers half.

Social Security was signed into law in 1935 by President Franklin Roosevelt. It was created as a safety net for people who had no other support. Workers pay into Social Security through paycheck deductions and when they become eligible, the government makes distributions. There are currently 43.2 million retired workers receiving Social Security benefits.

The problem retirees are facing now? Many haven't saved enough for retirement so they need Social Security to maintain their lifestyle.

The even scarier problem coming for America? The Social Security trust fund is expected to be exhausted by the 2030s, meaning those monthly benefits would be cut. On top of that, workplace defined-benefit plans (pensions) are disappearing, replaced by employer-sponsored defined-contribution plans (such as 401(k) or IRA accounts), of which less than half of private-sector workers had access to in 2016. And that’s down from 64% in 1999. The Government Accountability Office says 29% of Americans have no retirement savings at all.

A chorus of voices are warning that Americans are frighteningly unprepared as they head into retirement and old age. And dwindling Social Security will be less helpful in bridging the gap for older Americans. That’s a problem no matter which state you live in.

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Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

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Dictatorship USA – A Personal History – Part 34

Opening my eyes wider...


The “Communist Party's” inaction – or worse - in the Ohio labor anti-Vietnam war campaign intensified my serious disquiet about the “Party.” There was, after all, no more important communist, internationalist task at the time than opposing brutal, murderous US imperialist aggression against the peoples of Vietnam/Indochina.


Given the realities of American politics, the results of the effort I initiated were impressive: “... a full-page anti-war statement was published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer (“Silent Terror,” Photo 19)... Later, the Cleveland Association of Labor AFL-CIO, representing more than 150,000 workers, passed a nearly unanimous resolution calling upon the US government to end the war in Indochina and to use the money and manpower for constructive purposes. The resolution also called upon the state and national AFL-CIO to reverse their pro-war stand.” (“Silent Terror,” p. 125)


Nothing comparable was accomplished anywhere else in the US.


The Party in all this? Anton Krchmarek, the former Chairman of the Ohio “CP,” did absolutely nothing to help. Worse, his replacement, Phil Bart#, actively tried to sabotage the effort with diversionary tactics.


To hamper the anti-war efforts, Lauren, who had played a positive role in the campaign##, was shipped out by the YWLL### (Young Workers Liberation League) to the Komsomol (Young Communist) Congress in the Soviet Union (see Photo 7 in “Silent Terror”).


At the next “Party” Central Committee meeting, neither General Secretary Gus Hall (see post 32) in his main report nor anyone else even mentioned the unique and important Ohio achievements.


At that meeting, I told Hall of my serious disquient concerning the “apathy” if not worse of the Ohio “comrades” and by inference of the national “Party” leadership as well. How was it possible, I asked, for communists to ignore the anti-war struggle? Earlier I had rationalized “party” inaction as the consequence of shell-shock resulting from fierce McCarthyite anti-communism. But that era was largely in the past, and new anti-war, civil rights and student movements had arisen. Where was the “Party” under the new favorable conditions that had arisen??


On to Los Angeles...


In 1972, I was the main organizer and workhourse in collecting thousands of signatures to successfully place Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner#### on the Ohio presidential ballot. This was a meaningless endeavor which led to nothing positive, but I did not recognize it as such at the time. Even in this FBI-endorsed campaign, very few local “comrades” participated in the campaign and outsiders had to be brought in. What kind of “party” was this, anyway, I kept asking.

“Party” inaction in Ohio could not be explained by factionalism, as there was no evidence of that – just deadly inertia. So the national “Party” leadership - i.e. the FBI, transferred me to the hotbed of contrived “factionalism” - Southern California. The apparent reasoning: a political organization engulfed in internal infighting could not be expected to generate positive initiatives. In the Southern California district (the second largest in the country), Gus Hall explained (sort of) that my main task would be to overcome paralyzing dissent against the “party” line. The message: don't look for enemy agents, look for and deal with splitters.

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In Southern California – and for the country as a whole - the factional “leader” was Dorothy Healey, which CIA-Wikipedia lauds:


“Dorothy Ray Healey (September 22, 1914 – August 6, 2006) was a long-time activist in the Communist Party USA, from the late 1920s to the 1970s...

“During the decades of the 1950s and 1960s, Healey was one of the leading public figures of the Communist Party in the state of California. An opponent of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and at odds with the orthodox pro-Soviet leadership of Gus Hall, Healey subsequently left the Communist Party...

“A critical moment for her came in 1956, after the reading of Nikita Khrushchev's speech, 'On the Personality Cult and its Consequences,' which revealed the crimes that Joseph Stalin committed under the USSR's one-party system. 'The speech went on for four hours, and I was reduced to tears after about 30 minutes,' she said...

“She resigned from her leadership post in 1968, after Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev ordered Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops to crush the democratic socialist movement in Czechoslovakia. She stayed in the party until 1973, when she resigned in a dispute with CPUSA General Secretary Gus Hall...” (Dorothy Ray Healey, Wikipedia)

What stands out with stooge Healey - and in many other cases worldwide - is that CIA rat Khrushchev's (Хрущев) blasphemous slander of Joseph Stalin served as a signal for “communist” parties to be torn by internal dissention and, in most cases, eventually lose their – often largely fake - Marxist-Leninist bearings.


Of course, the ideological and political “battle” between Hall and Healey was pure subterfuge. The FBI was managing both “sides” of this “dispute.” When I came on the scene in 1972, I had no idea that this was the case. And in my capacity as new District Organizer, I took on the factionalists.


In her book written after the fact, Healey comes out against me:


“(The Southern California District Organizer) replacement, Arnold Lockshin, was a rigid dogmatist, utterly convinced that Party history started in 1967, the year he happened to join. He later gained considerable publicity for his 'defection' along with his family to the Soviet Union on the eve of the Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in Reykjavik in 1986.” (California Red, A Life in the American Communist Party, Dorothy Ray Healey and Maurice Isserman, 1993)


A side note: A copy of Healey's book was “left” in a Moscow bookstore which Lauren and I used to frequent as it sold English-language used books. It is inconceivable that anyone else in Moscow would have had the slightest interest in Healey's trash. That book was deliberately left by the CIA-FSB simply for me to read the insulting passage about myself.


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# "Phil Bart was a longtime Communist Party member and official. In 1963, he served as the Party’s Organizational Secretary and in 1979, as the head of the History Commission. In 1979, he published a book titled 'Highlights of a Fighting History: 60 Years of the Communist Party USA.'” (Communist Party Oral Histories)


## To demonstrate that she was my “helpmate” and “wife,” i.e., to reinforce her credibility in my eyes.


### The youth organization sponsored by the CP.


#### Currently, Tyner is the phony Executive Vice Chairman of the phony CPUSA.



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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

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Dictatorship USA – A Plundering and Predatory Nation — 2018 (43)

Факты, которые подконтрольные ЦРУ СМ»И» в России скрывают...


"Their Wealth Has Vanished": Baby Boomers File For Bankruptcy In Droves
ZeroHedge, Aug. 7, 2018

An alarming number of older Americans are being forced into bankruptcy, as the rate of people 65 and older who have filed has never been higher - at three times what it was in 1991, according to a new study by the The Bankruptcy Project.

A three-decade shift of financial risk from government and employers to individuals is at fault, as aging Americans are dealing with longer waits for full Social Security benefits, 401(k) plans replacing employer-provided pensions and more out-of-pocket spending on items such as health care.

“When the costs of aging are off-loaded onto a population that simply does not have access to adequate resources, something has to give,” the study says, “and older Americans turn to what little is left of the social safety net — bankruptcy court.”

The jump is so pronounced, the study says, that the aging of the baby boom generation cannot explain it. “The people who show up in bankruptcy are always the tip of the iceberg,” said Robert M. Lawless, an author of the study and a law professor at the University of Illinois.

By 2013 the average Medicare beneficiary's out-of-pocket health care expenses ate up around 41% of the average Social Security payment, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Many older parents report that helping their children contributed to their bankruptcies. Parents co-sign loans for their kids, only to find themselves on the hook when their offspring couldn't service the debt. When you have rent and savings are minuscule — it is extremely difficult to recover from something like that. It is not uncommon to see student loans of $100,000.
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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

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Dictatorship USA – A Personal History – Part 33

Do-nothing “communists”...


There is little point going into what most of the Ohio CP “comrades” did or what became of them. For these do-nothing FBI-puppets, ”Party” membership meant attending occasional “club” meetings and at times “contributing” secret political police-allocated money to the CP newspaper and the “Party.”


In Ohio in 1970 I organized what turned out to be the most significant workers' movement against the Vietnam war (see “Silent Terror,” p. 124-5), but the “Party” was virtually nowhere to be found. A couple of members were instructed to give token, insincere “help” while the local “Party” leaders either did nothing or engaged in diversionary tactics attempting to stifle the movement.


With this backdrop, it is worth mentioning two of the “comrades” to further illustrate how the FBI and its phonies operate.

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The FBI long ago decided it was necessary to have one “comrade” in the huge U. S. Steel mill in Lorain, Ohio, about 30 miles west of Cleveland.


“The sprawling United States Steel Mill stretches for nearly 3 mi (4.8 km) on the city's south side. These mills had operated in the city since 1895 and employed thousands of local residents.” (Lorain, Ohio, Wikipedia)


When I was the “party” organizer for Ohio, George Edwards was the FBI “comrade” for US Steel. In spite of his “communist convictions,” George enjoyed a soft teaching job in the mill, receiving – according to him personally – the second highest pay grade at the plant.#


Edwards lived in a big house in East Cleveland, and lived – as so many “comrades” – a long (he lived to 94) and comfortable life. He had spent prison time for sex-related offences, which, however, did not prevent him from being “elected” later to the CP's “Central Committee.” When I took the lead in organizing labor opposition to the Vietnam War (see above), Edwards was nowhere to be found.


After he died, Ohio's largest circulation newspaper published a fawning and grossly embellished obituary for him (the CIA-run American mass media characteristically laud secret political police-”leftists” and always hide the treachery of their venerated ones):

“(George) Edwards, a proud Communist and a co-founder of the United Steelworkers, died Oct. 5 at Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh...

“This year, speakers praised him and audiences cheered him at the 70th annual Steelworkers convention in Cleveland and at a union civil rights forum in Cincinnati...

“After Edwards' death, Bruce Bostick, a former Local 1104 official, called him a 'great leader, activist, fighter for justice and equality.'


“He became a machinist at Lorain Steel Works... and he helped organize Local 1104 in 1942, the international's founding year. He became vice president of the local and started its newspaper, the Lorain Labor Leader...

“Edwards worked for many years training apprentices. After hours, he hired out as a photographer. He also made metal sculptures, including chess sets given to governments in Vietnam, Moscow and elsewhere. He liked to hike, camp, garden and can vegetables.

“In the 1970s, Edwards helped form the National Steelworkers Rank and File Committee. The group won reforms from the United Steelworkers, such as integrating departments at workplaces, integrating union leadership and letting members vote on contracts.##

“In retirement, Edwards helped to form the Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees### and became an international trustee... In 1992, Edwards was arrested for a sit-in that blocked trucks during a strike at Pittsburgh newspapers. In recent years, he protested with Occupy Pittsburgh.” (George R. Edwards helped found the United Steelworkers: news obituary, The Plain Dealer, Oct. 16, 2012)

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Bruce Bostick (see above) was the younger FBI “Party” replacement for Edwards at US Steel:


“Gregory Bruce Bostick is a retired Ohio steelworker and long time Communist Party USA activist...
In May 1992 the Communist Party USA newspaper Peoples Weekly World published a May Day supplement which included a call to "support our continuing struggle for justice and dignity." Endorsers of the call included Bruce Bostick, Sec. grievance Committee, USWA Local 1104...

“In 1995 the Communist Party USA newspaper People's Weekly World, published a 'May Day salute' to the 'heroes in the class war zone.' More than 200 unionists endorsed the call, mostly known affiliates, or members of the Communist Party. Bruce Bostick, USWA Lorain Ohio, was one of those listed... In 2010 Bruce Bostick, was a retired steelworker and member of the Communist Party USA National Committee." (Bruce Bostick, Key Wiki)

In the United States of Dictatorship America, FBI pig – phony “revolutionary” Bostick can be both an “active” trade unionist and a publicly-known “communist.” For an honest American, nothing of the sort is even remotely possible.


Bostick supports both the war-mongering, 100% capitalist Democratic Party and the FBI-controlled AFL-CIO unions, including the steelworkers:

“Conor Lamb (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district), is greeted by USW (United Steelworkers) International President Leo Gerard. The USW, which focuses heavily on political action, played a key role in Lamb's recent victory.” (Steelworkers’ Gerard: “Time to go on the offensive”, by Bruce Bostick, People's World, May 29, 2018)


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# In accordance with the FBI practice of ensuring that its flunkies have at least a higher than average living standard.

## Pure blarney. The various CP-organized “rank-and-file committees” did nothing meaningful, had no influence on the steelworkers' or any other union and soon went out of existence.

### There is no evidence that these “active retirees” did/do any more than the phony “rank-and-file committees.”



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Перед нами сейчас - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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