I have friends retired from the DOD & NIH who should qualify for Social Security benefits. They both worked in the private sector before public service. The “Social Security Fairness Act” to repeal the WEP & GPO passed the House.

 🚨 The U.S. House JUST voted to pass my bipartisan #SocialSecurityFairnessAct to repeal the WEP and the GPO.

I'm proud to help lead this effort to protect the retirement benefits earned by police officers, firefighters, federal employees, teachers, and other public servants

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Our family has had the good fortune of a friendship with Norman Jones. 

We met Norman through another friend, John Hamilton. I met John running up and down Lemon Hill. We were going to join a rowing club. John got a bad back. The Fairmont Rowing Association was desperate for members and I began in a gig on the Schuylkill. John taught string instruments in the Philadelphia School District and played the viola professionally. Norman was a tenant at one of John’s rental homes. 

When Norm graduated from Drexel University, he fulfilled his army, ROTC at Fort Benning, Georgia. After his basic training, the army told him they had too many officers and he would need to enroll in the National Guard.

We got a call from Norman saying he needed a place to stay for a couple of weeks until he, his wife Mary and his daughter Suzi could find a home of their own. That two weeks stretched out into three months. We became very close friends during the three month period of living basically as one family.

Norm is a microwave engineer but he’s inclined to repairing automobiles and he helped me get my Saab 96 running smoothly. At a time when all cars used mechanical points to distribute a spark to each spark, plug norm help me install and electronic distributor. I remember Norm saying don’t touch the car you’ll be electrocuted when he briefly reversed the polarity of the battery, making the car body positive. The electronic distributor was successfully installed and my Saab 96 no longer stopped and needed new points.

Norm got a job working for Philco Ford and was enrolled in the Air Force National guard at Willow Grove, Naval Air Station. The Air Force Reserve had Cessna O-2s at Willow Grove Naval Air Station. Norm had command of the modified jeeps that carried the ground component of the forward air control. 

Betsy & me brought Suzi to the Air Station swimming pool. I played racquet ball at the Air Station court. I sometimes drove Norms car and the guards saluted me. Security was limited at the time. 

Norm was working at Philco Ford which designed radios that went into Ford vehicles. Norm designed a radio that would work well in their vehicles. Ford told him to modify them to make them less costly. Norm said the radios would only work for a few months if they were designed that way. Didn’t matter to Ford.

Norm said he couldn’t work for a company like that.

Norm began a long career designing satellite communications for the Department of Defense leading a small number of engineers in Reston, Virginia. 

Norm, divorced Mary and married Janet. Janet was a colonel at the NIH Clinical Center. 

He was concerned Janet could be kidnapped and used to gain information about Norm's work. Norm was away often at Palo Alto CA and Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. He designed a complete hard wired security system for their Reston home. His computer recorded in detail every person that came near their home. 

Betsy, Julia, Jeff and me visited Norm and Janet at their home in Reston and were greeted by speaker on their security system as we walked to the front door. 

Desktop computers were a new thing in the early 1990s. Norm taught Jeff and Julia how to use them. This is his office in Norm & Janets home in Reston. 

In the photos below Norm is instructing Julia & Jeff on how to use computers. Norm is an excellent and very patient instructor. At the time the photos below were taken Norm could not tell us what he did for the DOD. 

The military satellite communications system his team in Reston designed is still in use. Norm placed a ground unit in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. For a time it was the only communication system connecting New Orleans with the rest of the world. 

Over the years Norm's original designs were modified and used by Google Maps, Skype and other commercial systems. 

TRUMP’S UNPRECEDENTED POWER GRAB TO APPOINT FOR 2 YEARS JUDGES, AMBASSADORS, CABINET MEMBERS & OTHER FEDERAL OFFICERS WITHOUT SENATE CONFORMATION. MAKING TRUMP THE 2 YEAR DICTATOR OF THE USA. THEN STEPPING DOWN FOR A ZANCE 12 YEAR DICTATORSHIP.

“Trump's cheating and stealing have already begun -- he wants the MAGA Senators who bent the knee to him to agree to call an IMMEDIATE recess of the Senate as soon as it gets back into session on Jan 20 and allow him for 10+ days to just appoint for 2 years, whomever he wants to federal judgeships, ambassadors, cabinet members, and federal officers, without public scrutiny, a hearing or senate confirmation. Popok is  @ The Intersection to explain how Senate Democrats have the tools to stop this unprecedented power grab both under the Senate's rules and in federal court.”

Legal AF - Michael Popok 

My REACTION to TRUMP WIN: SAME AS the “BLOC of FOUR” WIN. They WON CONTROL of the CITY of COATESVILLE PA. The FINAL RESULT of THEIR WIN was DESPAIR & SORROW. After our PD FORCE was CUT IN ½ we had YRS. OF STREET MURDERS-13 UNSOLVED, ENDING in ARSON, SLEEPING DOWNSTAIRS AWAY FROM WINDOWS & BULLETS W/FIRE EXTINGUISHER: MY REACTION, was HOW CAN WE PUT THEM ALL IN PRISON?

Monday, February 17, 2014

Under former city manager Harry Walker’s watch COATESVILLE BURNED.

SHRINKING TRUMP

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SEARCH Coatesville Dems Blog for more concerning “BLOC OF FOUR.” -  JOE CARROLL - RICHARD LEGREE - HARRY WALKER - RENDELL - TOM HOGAN -REVITALIZATION:

I asked about Richard Legree at the Chester County Courthouse speaking to only 3 people there. 

My home is 25 minutes from the Chester County Courthouse. I came in the back door. A man was knocking on the front door. He said “Don’t go looking into stuff about Richie.”

I had information that I couldn’t take to any person at the Chester County Courthouse or the Chester County District Attorney. It would get back to Coatesville before I got home. The same is true for Coatesville residents who witnessed a murder. DA Joe Carroll moved to a house in Coatesville to collect information. 

I was directed to Tom Hogan then a USA at the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. I showed Tom my 3 page 11 point document. He read it and fully understood it within 3 minutes. I knew he was my man to bring information to.

I also had the number of the FAX machine inside of Governor Rendell's office. 

AND the cell number of a DOJ intelligence officer in Chester County PA linked to AG Eric Holder

I got information from criminal records search, Deeds & property searches, old newspaper articles on microfilm at libraries, driving & watching and people I trusted in Coatesville PA, BOTH DEMOCRATIC PARTY & REPUBLICAN PARTY OFFICIALS. 

I relied on INGRID W. JONES. She has an encyclopedic memory of people & their complicated genealogy in Chester County PA. 

I once informed Chester County DA Joe Carroll that a person arraigned by a magistrate judge in Chester County who was stopped by PA State police with a sawed off shotgun in his trunk was related to the magistrate judge using information from Ingrid. The judge made up a story that the crime of possessing a sawed off shotgun was Federal & he had no jurisdiction. He was going to let him off. 

Trained in cursive handwriting, diction and public speaking at St. Katharine Drexel Academy Ingrid was the voice you heard when the telephone company began using area codes. 

She researched deeply into Black History in South East Pennsylvania.

Ingrid is A MEMBER OF THE SUTTON FAMILY. Being the first girl in the Sutton family in many years Percy Sutton carried baby Ingrid on his shoulders. 

Ingrid sat in front of Bill & Hillary Clinton at Percy Suttons funeral service at the Riverside Church. 

Remembering Percy Sutton - New York Post:

"The son of a slave, Percy Sutton became a fixture on 125th Street in Harlem after moving to New York City following his service with the famed Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. His Harlem law office, founded in 1953, represented Malcolm X and the slain activist's family for decades.

The consummate politician, Sutton served in the New York State Assembly before taking over as Manhattan borough president in 1966, becoming the highest-ranking black elected official in the state...

Sutton also mounted unsuccessful campaigns for the U.S. Senate and mayor of New York, and served as political mentor for the Rev. Jesse Jackson's two presidential races.

Jackson recalled Sutton talking about electing a black president as early as 1972. Sutton was influential in getting his 1984 campaign going, he said.

"He never stopped building bridges and laying the groundwork," Jackson said Sunday. "We are very glad to be the beneficiaries of his work...

Sutton's father, Samuel, was born into slavery just before the Civil War. The elder Sutton became principal at a segregated San Antonio high school, and he made education a family priority: All 12 of his surviving children attended college.

When he was 13, Percy Sutton endured a traumatic experience that drove him inexorably into the fight for racial equality. A police officer approached Sutton as the teen handed out NAACP pamphlets. "N-----, what are you doing out of your neighborhood?" he asked before beating the youth.

When World War II arrived, Sutton's enlistment attempts were rebuffed by Southern white recruiters. The young man went to New York, where he was accepted and joined the Tuskegee Airmen.

After the war, Sutton earned a law degree in New York while working as a post office clerk and a subway conductor. He served again as an Air Force intelligence officer during the Korean War before returning to Harlem in 1953 and establishing his law office with brother Oliver and a third partner, George Covington...

Sutton's devotion to Harlem and its people was rarely more evident than when he spent $250,000 to purchase the shuttered Apollo Theater in 1981. The Apollo turned 70 in 2004, a milestone that was unthinkable until Sutton stepped in to save the landmark.

Sutton "retired" in 1991, but his work as an adviser, mentor and confidante to politicians and businessmen never abated. He was among a group of American businessmen selected during the Clinton administration to attend meetings with the Group of Seven (G-7) Nations in 1995-96.

"He was a great man,' said Charles Warfield Jr., the president and chief operating officer of ICBC Broadcast Holdings Inc., when reached early Sunday. He declined to comment further out of respect for the wishes of Sutton's family.

The Rev. Al Sharpton said he last visited Sutton in a nursing home Wednesday. He recalled meeting Sutton for the first time at age 12; Four years later, Sutton paid for his trip to a national black political convention because the teenage Sharpton couldn't afford to go.

"He personified the black experience of the 20th century," Sharpton said. "He started the century where blacks were victims. We ended as victors." 

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THE PERSON I MOST RELIED ON FOR STREET INFORMATION IN COATESVILLE WAS ELWOOD DIXON. 

I THINK WHAT WOULD ELWOOD DO? ALL THE TIME.

I MISS HIM EVERY DAY.

Elwood Dixon honored at Coatesville Community Day 2017

Will President TRUMP II CAUSE A SECOND GREAT DEPRESSION? Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

 “President Donald Trump has tweeted that “trade wars are good and easy to win.” But many economists have disagreed that raising tariffs sharply can improve the economy. In particular, experts have pointed to the failure of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, passed in June 1930, to protect U.S. industries from tariff increases.

Although this came several months after the stock market crash of 1929, the U.S. hadn’t yet entered “the full onset of the Great Depression,” says Claude Barfield, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. 

The thinking among Congress and President Herbert Hoover was that by raising taxes on thousands of imports no matter what country they came from, the act would protect American farmers and secure the nation’s economy. But experts disagreed.

“Economists around the country argued to the Republican Congress that this would only hurt the world economy, and the United States economy,” Barfield says. (Before the political parties realigned in the mid-20th century, the Democrats were the “free trade” party.)

And they were right. Although it did not cause the onset of the Great Depression, it did help extend it. After President Hoover signed the bill into law, stocks dropped to 140.

Other countries responded to the United States tariffs by putting up their restrictions on international trade, which just made it harder for the United States to pull itself out of its depression. Imports became largely unaffordable and people who had lost their jobs could only afford to buy domestic products. Global trade tanked 65 percent.

In effect, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act “prolonged [the depression] and possibly deepened it around the world, not just in the United States but for other countries,” he says.”

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HISTORY

The Great Depression Lesson About ‘Trade Wars’

Summary

The article discusses the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, passed in 1930, which raised tariffs across the board and hurt the U.S. economy. The act prolonged and deepened the Great Depression by making imports unaffordable and leading to a 65 percent drop in global trade.

In 1930, raising tariffs across the board hurt the U.S. economy.

Becky Little

March 5, 2018

STUFF TRUMP SAID HE WOULD DO-“FREEDOM CITIES”

 20. Construct 10 new 'Freedom Cities' in the US which will be completely free from all government regulations of any kind.’

FROM:

Trump's 93 Campaign Promises

Every promise made on video.

Ron Filipkowski

November 8, 2024

"Freedom Cities" Nazi Cities,  Secession Cities,  Anarchist Cities???

WHAT THE HELL DOES HE MEAN BY "FREEDOM CITIES?"

IS IT THIS?

This June, a remarkable story broke about a longtime neo-Nazi named Craig Cobb who had stealthily bought up a dozen properties in the near-ghost town of Leith, N.D., in an effort to take over and create an all-white community (see story, p. 35). The news came as a shock to the residents of Leith — a total of 16 people, according to the last census — and sparked an immediate reaction, including a counter-protest of more than 400 people against Cobb and a small band of his neo-Nazi friends. The Leith story was unusual enough that it made the front page of The New York Times, but the attempt turns out to have been only the latest in a long series of efforts to create extremist communities, whether based on racism, survivalism, certain kinds of religiosity or other factors. This summer, Mark Pitcavage, the director of investigative research for the Jewish human rights group Anti-Defamation League, wrote a comprehensive report on such communities, “Home is Where the Bunker Is: Extremist, Survivalist, and Fringe Housing Developments.” The Intelligence Report interviewed Pitcavage, a longstanding expert on the American radical right, on the history of extremist intentional communities in the United States.

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Closed Circuit

BY Mark Potok

Former Senior Fellow

OR THIS?

"In the summer of 2015, a chimney sweep in Elgin, Oregon, redrew the map of the American West. “Imagine for a moment Idaho’s western border stretching to the Pacific Ocean,” Grant Darrow wrote in a letter to the editor of his local paper. Rural Oregon, he insisted, should break its ties with the urbanites of Portland and liberals of Salem, and join Idaho. “The political diversity in this state is becoming unpalatable,” he argued. “Rural Oregonians in general and Eastern Oregonians, in particular, are growing increasingly dismayed by the manner in which Oregon’s Legislature and Oregon’s urban dwellers have marginalized their values, demonized their lifestyle, villainized their resource-based livelihoods, and classified them as second-class citizens at best.”

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

Modern America’s Most Successful Secessionist Movement

By Antonia Hitchens

OR THIS?

Anarchist Cities