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  • Karen Bass and Cuba's Venceremos Brigade: Controversial history resurfaces amid criticism over L.A. Fire Dept. cuts

    01/15/2025 2:49:29 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 9 replies
    ADN America ^ | 10/1/25
    recent overseas trip to Ghana, and budget cuts that hampered the city's fire department from doing its job amid the ongoing citywide blaze. The mayor’s poorly timed foreign travel has raised questions about her priorities and similar past trips. One of the most interesting chapters of Bass’ political career and international travel involves her past excursions to communist Cuba. The former U.S. congresswoman turned metropolitan mayor played a significant role with the Venceremos Brigade —a group linked to Cuba's communist regime. History of the Venceremos Brigade The Venceremos Brigade, founded in 1969, is a U.S.-based organization that has facilitated trips...
  • Claudia Sheinbaum is likely to be Mexico’s next president. Who is she?

    05/27/2024 5:10:11 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 43 replies
    MSN/WaPo ^ | May 2024 | Mary Beth Sheridan, Lorena Ríos
    Sheinbaum, 61, is poised to make history as Mexico’s first female president and first Jewish head of state. Polls a week before Mexico’s election show her enjoying a wide lead over the next candidate, the conservative entrepreneur Xóchitl Gálvez. Still, after nearly a quarter-century in the public eye, she remains an enigma, known mainly as the low-key protégé of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the charismatic leader known as AMLO. AMLO doesn’t speak English and dislikes traveling abroad. Sheinbaum did postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley; her sister and daughter live in the United States. The president,...
  • Kamala Grew Up Around Terrorists

    10/22/2024 6:44:43 PM PDT · by Lake Living · 14 replies
    frontpagemag.com ^ | 10/22/2024 | Daniel Greenfield
    The vice president then began singing the praises of Kaunda, a brutal socialist dictator allied with the Soviet Union, who had banned opposing political parties and ran as the only candidate for president until he was finally ousted, and praised Zambia’s “democracy”. Kaunda, whom Kamala fondly recalled meeting with JFK and MLK “to discuss peaceful forms of protest” had demanded nuclear weapons from LBJ. Hichilema, who had narrowly survived being arrested by a previous regime, had nothing to say about Kamala’s fond memories of Zambian democracy. Or the “peaceful forms of protest” carried on with nuclear missiles and terrorism. But...
  • The Last Time the Incumbent President Dropped Out: The Election of 1968

    10/09/2024 11:19:31 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 25 replies
    hungarianconservative ^ | 10/09/2024 | Márton Losoncz
    The 60th quadrennial presidential election in the United States is in four weeks, less than a month away. As the campaign season is heating up, let’s take a look at the election of 1968, the last time the incumbent President decided not to run for re-election despite not being term-limited, just like President Joe Biden did this year. As the 2024 election is fast approaching, we need to make a big jump in American history, skipping from 1932 to 1968. Evidently, there are a lot of events we have to jump over, here’s a list of just the most significant...
  • The Mirage of Honest Government

    10/07/2024 3:05:58 PM PDT · by DFG · 7 replies
    Jim Bovard ^ | 10/07/2024 | James Bovard
    For more than 70 years, America has been on the verge of honest government. In election after election, politicians have promised to finally take this nation to the moral high ground once and for all. In 1952, Dwight Eisenhower captured the presidency based in part on his promise to end “the mess in Washington”—festering corruption from 20 years of Democratic presidents. Housewives were swayed to support the Republican ticket with red, white, and blue scrub pails with the slogan, “Let’s clean up with Eisenhower and Nixon.” Those pails did not prevent waves of scandals and top Eisenhower appointees resigning in...
  • Cops Are Reportedly Calling in Sick: Will DNC Violence Be Worse Than 1968?

    08/19/2024 1:40:06 PM PDT · by Signalman · 60 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 8/19/2024 | Matt Margolis
    The Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago on Monday, and the city has been bracing for violence and riots. Businesses started boarding up their windows and doors last week due to the many thousands of antisemitic, pro-Palestinian protesters expected to descend on the area organized by more than 200 different groups. Some are saying it could be reminiscent of the violence that plagued the 1968 DNC, which was also in Chicago. Chicago law enforcement dismisses that idea. "Chicago 2024 won’t be like Chicago 1968. That is the promise of law-enforcement officials and protest organizers alike as the curtain prepares...
  • No, Richard Nixon’s 1968 Election Win Wasn’t ‘A Landslide’

    07/19/2024 12:08:29 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 28 replies
    yahoo ^ | 07/19/2024 | Leah Schroeder
    Amid calls for President Joe Biden to withdraw as a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, many people are drawing comparisons to 1968, when President Lyndon B. Johnson declined to run for reelection, citing conflicts caused by the Vietnam war, violent inner-city protests, and widespread poverty. Johnson’s vice president, Hubert Humphrey, earned the nomination and ended up losing to Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee. On July 18, the X account for MSNBC’s Morning Joe posted a clip of hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski discussing the 1968 election. Nikole Hannah-Jones, an investigative reporter for the New York Times Magazine and...
  • Shock poll finds two-thirds of Americans expect more political violence in wake of Trump shooting: 1968 again?

    07/14/2024 12:20:16 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    Nypost ^ | 07/14/2024 | A.G. Gancarski
    So 2024 could be the new 1968, a watershed political year characterized by malefactors attacking iconic political leaders. That’s the fear of a full 67% of Americans polled in the wake of a sniper attack on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa., Saturday evening. Two out of every three of the 4,339 Americans YouGov surveyed believe political violence is more likely — suggesting the shots fired at the presumptive GOP presidential nominee in his last campaign stop before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee are a preamble to further violence.
  • How to lose friends and alienate people: Richard Holbrooke was a past master

    05/12/2019 11:14:42 AM PDT · by billorites · 14 replies
    Spectator ^ | May 11, 2019 | Jonathan Powell
    You may ask yourself, is it worth one of the best American non-fiction writers producing a book of just under 600 pages on an arrogant and abrasive egotist whose highest sustained rank in the State Department was that of a lowly assistant secretary? The answer is unabashedly yes. This is a remarkable work about a remarkable, if deeply flawed, statesman whose career was intimately intertwined with the 50 years of American decline from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Nearly all biographies have long, boring stretches you want to skip. This one has none. The access to Richard Holbrooke’s papers and to the...
  • The Population Council, which brought the abortion pill to the U.S., has a shocking history that’s nothing to celebrate

    06/14/2024 9:14:56 PM PDT · by Morgana · 3 replies
    Live Action News ^ | November 14, 2017 | Carole Novielli
    The Population Council, the eugenics organization credited with bringing the abortion pill (RU-486) to the United States, turns 65 this month — but it is nothing to celebrate. In 1952, John D. Rockefeller III founded the Population Council and served as the organization’s first president. According to the Rockefeller Foundation, the Population Council, Inc., was incorporated following Rockefeller’s Conference on Population Problems, “…to stimulate, encourage, promote, conduct and support significant activities in the broad field of population.” Like its founder, the Population Council’s other members were concerned about population issues — and, like other population organizations such as Planned Parenthood,...
  • The Foundation of American Folly - The Ford Foundation has spent decades tearing the country apart, tax-free.

    06/10/2024 8:53:37 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 29 replies
    City Journal ^ | Spring, 2024 | N. S. Lyons
    It’s November 2023, and, following the October 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists that killed some 1,400 Israelis and at least 31 Americans, thousands of demonstrators march through New York City, calling for the destruction of the Jewish state. Chants of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” echo through the streets, along with “there is only one solution: intifada revolution.” Among the crowd is the infamous Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour, who warns through a megaphone that a cabal of wily Jews has conspired to place “their little posters” (of kidnapped Israeli civilians) across the city, seeking...
  • Activists to protest ‘with or without permits’ when DNC arrives in Chicago this summer

    04/13/2024 8:32:39 PM PDT · by Salman · 40 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 4-13-24 | ALYSA GUFFEY
    Progressive activist groups from across the country are preparing to protest outside the Democratic National Convention “with or without permits” come August. Coalition leaders have attested their right to be within “sight and sound” of the convention’s center stage at the United Center, citing First Amendment rights in a federal lawsuit filed last month. On Saturday, leaders reaffirmed their commitment to be heard outside the DNC, despite the city’s denial of protest permits closer to the convention’s site. A couple of hundred people representing 78 activist organizations gathered Saturday for a day-long “working conference” hosted by the March on the...
  • Iron Butterfly singer and songwriter of an iconic classic-rock hit (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida) has died

    05/28/2024 6:03:49 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 79 replies
    AL.com ^ | May 27, 2024 | Matt Wake
    Doug Ingle, who sang, wrote and played organ on “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” the haunting 1968 hit by rock band Iron Butterfly, died Friday, as previously reported by Ultimate Classic Rock. Ingle was 78. A cause of death hasn’t been released. On Facebook, the musician’s son, Doug Ingle Jr., wrote, “It’s with a heavy heart & great sadness to announce the passing of my Father Doug Ingle. Dad passed away peacefully this evening in the presence of family.” Ingle’s son concluded his Facebook tribute with, “Thank You Dad for being a father, teacher and friend. Cherished loving memories I will carry the rest...
  • Extremists plotting protests at Democratic Convention include Missouri man charged with spying for Russia, sparking fears Kremlin could seek to unleash chaos in Chicago

    05/19/2024 2:45:55 PM PDT · by Libloather · 32 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 5/19/24 | Miles Dilworth
    Extremists plotting to wreak havoc at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) include a Missouri man charged with spying for Russia, sparking fears the Kremlin could seek to unleash chaos at the conference. Police are already braced for massive protests at the August convention, with agitators threatening a throwback to 1968 when the event turned into a bloodbath. In recent weeks, clashes at university campuses over the Israel-Hamas conflict have raised concerns that the far left is ramping up plans for a major show of force. But DailyMail.com can now reveal that those plotting to bring chaos to the streets of...
  • ‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families

    05/13/2024 7:49:22 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 57 replies
    The Guardian ^ | May 10, 2024 | Damian Carrington
    “I had the hormonal urges,” said Prof Camille Parmesan, a leading climate scientist based in France. “Oh my gosh, it was very strong. But it was: ‘Do I really want to bring a child into this world that we’re creating?’ Even 30 years ago, it was very clear the world was going to hell in a handbasket. I’m 62 now and I’m actually really glad I did not have children.” Parmesan is not alone. An exclusive Guardian survey has found that almost a fifth of the female climate experts who responded have chosen to have no children, or fewer children,...
  • Maher: This Year’s DNC Will Be a Repeat of 1968 with Pro-Hamas Protesters

    04/20/2024 9:22:56 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 43 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/20/2024 | Ian hatchett
    On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher predicted that this year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago will be a repeat of the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention, which was also held in Chicago, because there will be large numbers of protesters whose “new cause” is “Hamas, to be on their side.” Maher said, “I was twelve years old, when they had it in 1968 in Chicago. It was like my baptism into politics, like, wow, this is kind of interesting shit going on on TV, and I know this is politics — but because there [were] hippies...
  • Mysterious death of WWII veteran milkman who vanished after rounds finally solved 56 years later

    04/14/2024 8:14:01 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 21 replies
    /Mirror ^ | 14 APR 2024 | Imy Brighty-Potts
    Fifty-six years after a Florida milkman vanished after doing his route, the mystery of his murder has been solved, closing one of the oldest cold casesA murderous mystery has finally been solved as fifty-six years after the truth behind a Florida milkman's death has been uncovered. The man failed to return home after his rounds, and now the mystery has been solved, closing the oldest cold case in Indian River County Sheriff’s Office history. Two people who say the suspect confessed to them helped investigators finally understand who killed Hiram “Ross” Grayam, a decorated World War II veteran who...
  • The year that broke US politics: what 1968 can tell us about 2024

    08/14/2023 10:48:45 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 43 replies
    theguardian ^ | 08/12/2023 | Rich Tenorio
    piritual messages made the Rev Billy Graham famous, but it was a different sort of message that he transmitted to Lyndon B Johnson in September 1968. Earlier that tumultuous year, the president announced on live television that he would not run for re-election. The race to succeed him pitted the current vice-president, Hubert H Humphrey, against a previous VP, Richard Nixon. An anti-establishment third-party candidate, George Wallace, a segregationist former governor of Alabama, was attracting unexpected support, amid backlash to Johnson’s Great Society reforms. Graham’s message to Johnson came from Nixon and contained an unorthodox proposal. If elected, Nixon offered...
  • The Election Where a Democratic President Secretly Wanted the Republican to Win

    08/01/2023 9:42:44 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 16 replies
    Time ^ | 08/01/2023 | OLIVIA B. WAXMAN
    After Billy Graham, the famous preacher and presidential confidante, passed away in 2018, Luke Nichter was one of the first researchers to get a glimpse at previously unseen Graham diary entries kept at the evangelical Wheaton College. Nichter’s new book The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968, out today, is the first to be based on Graham’s personal diaries. The entries reveal that incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson worked behind the scenes that year to help get Republican Richard Nixon elected. In a phone conversation on July 17, Nichter explained how the...
  • Memorial Day: Of Time and Tommy

    05/29/2023 5:11:05 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 10 replies
    Graboyes Substack ^ | 27 May 2023 | Robert Graboyes
    From Fall 1967 to Spring 1968, for no obvious reason, a 12th-grade football hero extended warmth and tolerance to a flyspeck of an 8th grader in the halls of Petersburg High School. I was the flyspeck. The football hero was Tommy Warren, who would graduate in June, enter the U.S. Marines, attain the rank of private first class, and die in Quang Nam province, South Vietnam, five months after I last saw him. My recollection (perhaps imperfect) is that of a somber voice (probably Principal Ed Betts) announcing his death over the loudspeaker, followed by anguished faces in the hallway....