I believe an unlikely mix of alleged drug trafficking related politicos and alleged white nationalist related politicos united to elect the infamous “Bloc of Four” in the abysmal voter turnout election of 2005. During their four year term the drug business was good again and white nationalists used Coatesville as an example on white supremacist websites like “Stormfront”. Strong community organization and support from law enforcement, in particular Chester County District Attorney Joseph W. Carroll has begun to turn our community around. The Chester County drug trafficking that I believe centers on Coatesville continues and I believe we still have public officials in place that profit from the drug sales. But the people here are amazing and continue to work against the odds to make Coatesville a good place to live.
The fact that Special Counsel Jack Smith used a Grand Jury that has been operating since 2023 to re-indict Trump in the DC election interference criminal case, spells bad news for Trump’s as of yet unindicted PRIVATE LAWYERS Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, & Ken Chesebro. Michael Popok explains that the existence of this functioning 2023 grand jury hearing new evidence increases the likelihood of these Trump lawyers finally being indicted for their own crimes.”
Some local elections are decided by 11 votes. This can be challenged in court. Been there done that.
FASCISTS ON THE SUPREME COURT TRY TO MAKE ELECTION SUPPRESSION THE LAW OF THE LAND.
PROJECT 2025, JUST LIKE RUSSIA.
VIDEOS BELOW:
Michael Popok explains how the new Supreme Court order affects all those in Arizona who have not yet registered, and how Democrats and Harris-Walz can use this to mobilize Arizona voters to crush Trump in this important battleground state.”
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How Russia Has Used Its Legal System as a Political Weapon | WSJ Timeline
“The high court’s order allows the enforcement of restrictions that bar people from voting in state and local elections if they don’t provide proof of citizenship when they register while the legal fight continues in lower courts.
State voter registration forms submitted without “documentary proof of citizenship” will now be rejected by Arizona counties, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said. People can still register to vote in presidential and congressional elections with a different federal form that requires people to swear they are citizens under penalty of perjury, but does not require proof.
“My concern is that changes to the process should not occur this close to an election, it creates confusion for voters,” Fontes said in a statement. “We respect the Court’s decision and will implement these changes while continuing to protect voter access and make a voting simple process.”
Rick Hasen, an election law expert and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote in a blog post that proof of citizenship laws “matter a lot. They stand to literally disenfranchise thousands of eligible voters for no good reason.”
Justice Clarence Thomas AFFINITY TOWARD BRIBES would allow him to FLOURISH IN RUSSIA'S OLIGARCH LEGAL SYSTEM.
CLARENCE THOMAS' BENEFACTOR HARLEN CROW IS ESSENTIALLY AN OLIGARCH ATTEMPTING TO CONTROL THE SUPREME COURT.
How Russia Has Used Its Legal System as a Political Weapon | WSJ Timeline
From Joseph Stalin to Vladimir Putin, Russian leaders have updated and evolved the country’s legal system. Yet for all of its reforms, it remains a tool that can be used to crack down on dissent and opposition.
WSJ takes a look at how Russia's justice system has been used through various periods of history.
According to the Republican Party 2025 plan Trump would use Stalin type mass arrests. SEE THE NEW YORK TIMES:
If he regains power, Donald Trump wants not only to revive some of the immigration policies criticized as draconian during his presidency, but expand and toughen them.
Severely limiting abortion access nationwide by reversing the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortion, and reviving a 19th century law, the Comstock Act, to ban any abortion medications, equipment, or materials from being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.
Targeting immigrant communities through mass deportations and raids, ending birthright citizenship, separating families, and dismantling our nation’s asylum system.
Exploiting the executive branch’s vast and unprecedented powers to spy on Americans’ lives with warrantless surveillance of our data.
Violating the First Amendment by using federal law enforcement to target journalists and protestors.
Abusing executive power to interfere in our elections by criminalizing the voting process and damaging fair representation.
Censoring academic discussions about race, gender, and systemic oppression, in violation of the First Amendment, and promising to cut federal funding for schools with curricula that touch on these subjects.
Weaponizing federal law to require states and private actors to discriminate against transgender people by threatening to sue schools that protect the rights of trans students or telling hospitals that they would lose their Medicaid funding if they provide gender-affirming medical care to trans adolescents.
“The former president’s demeanor was criticized online as many were puzzled—and others outright offended—that he’d give his signature smirk and hand gesture at such a sensitive site.
“Smiling thumbs up at the grave is unusual to say the least,” posted Adam Kinzinger, a former Republican lawmaker who’s a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard…
Trump’s campaign has recently tried to pin the U.S. military’s bloody exit from Afghanistan as an attack line on Harris. This is despite Trump being the president who struck the deal that led to the withdrawal, with him going as far as planning to host members of the Taliban at Camp David on Sept. 11, 2019, to finalize it.
Arlington National Cemetery has strict rules about partisan events on its grounds and denies entry to anyone who tries to “gain publicity or engender support for any cause,” but presidents and politicians regularly attend memorials there that are typically covered Trump has a checkered past with the military and veterans. He was accused by those formerly close to him of dodging the Vietnam War draft by making up an injury. He’s also disparaged the intelligence of service members and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, The Atlanticreported during his presidency.
Among the most damning alleged comments revealed in that report was that Trump referred to the more than 1,800 Marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood—a deadly WWI battle—as “suckers” for getting killed. In a separate conversation on the matter, he reportedly referred to soldiers killed in action as “losers.”
“Why should I go to that cemetery?” he was accused of saying. “It’s filled with losers.”
Trump has claimed the allegations made in the bombshell report aren’t true. Those once close to him confirmed the quotes’ veracity, however. That included the retired four-star Marine general John Kelly, who was Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff.
Trump Has MAJOR PROBLEM in Pennsylvania as DEM Senator SOARS
DON'T LET ANOTHER HEDGE FUND MANAGER BRING "DEATH TO OUR HOMETOWN"
FORMER SENATOR - DERIVATIVE SWAPS HEDGE FUND MANAGER - PAT TOOMEY WAS PARTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 2008 FINANCIAL COLLAPSE:
“By the time of the 2008 crash, derivative swaps had grown into a market with a notional worldwide value of $600 trillion—ten times the annual output of every economy in the world. The state banking supervisors who Toomey said would “continue to regulate” swaps did nothing while traders at Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and AIG made bets they couldn’t possibly pay out on. Eventually, the system collapsed on itself.
“There was a lot of financial deregulation in 1999 and 2000, and Glass-Steagall repeal was just a part of it. In December 2000, Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), a right-wing economist who went on to become John McCain’s economic adviser (he’s the one who said America was a “nation of whiners“), inserted an 262-page law called the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA) into an unrelated bill. (Read more about “Foreclosure Phil.”)
“Then the Keystone Renewal PAC, a super PAC supporting McCormick, recently launched a $30 million ad campaign supporting McCormick. One of the ads features McCormick promising to stop the flow of fentanyl into the country.
“Today we face a shadow growing on the Pacific horizon…I’m proposing a new [path]. Stop the flow of fentanyl, ban purchases of American land and US investment that supports the Chinese Community Party,” McCormick said in the ad.
However, federal tax forms show that Bridgewater Associates invested in China’s largest fentanyl producer, Humanwell Healthcare, when McCormick served as CEO of Bridgewater Associates.
In 2021, seven Bridgewater Associates hedge funds held close to $1.7 million in stock in Humanwell Healthcare, which is traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
A 2022 Rand Corporation report on comparing the production of opiates stated that Humanwell Healthcare produces 90% of China’s fentanyl.
“Chinese law restricts production of controlled substances to nationally designated firms that must adhere to stateset production quotas. For example, legal production of several fentanyl analogues used in medical applications is concentrated in the Humanwell Healthcare (Renfu Yiyao), which owns 90 percent of the domestic market. This arrangement grants sponsored firms near monopoly status and might decrease the oversight burden,” the report stated.
McCormick served as the President of Bridgewater Associates from 2009 to 2020 and then the company’s CEO from 20202 to 2022 when he lost to Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Republican primary for US Senate.In 2023, McCornick told the American Enterprise Institute that he was responsible for whatever the company did.
According to the Pennsylvania State Police’s Overdose Information Network (ODIN), over 4,700 Pennsylvania residents passed away due to fentanyl overdoses in 2022. The report goes on to point out that the state’s opioid epidemic affects rural communities with 42.3 overdoses per 100,000 residents when compared to urban communities with 34.0 overdoses per 100,000 residents.
“When he was the CEO of the largest hedge fund in the world, he increased investments in China by over a hundred thousand percent,” Casey said. “So he contributed by way of the investment decisions he made – he contributed to the rise of China.”
McCormick’s campaign was reached for comment but did not respond."
Sean Kitchen is the Keystone’s political correspondent, based in Harrisburg. Sean is originally from Philadelphia and spent five years working as a writer and researcher for Pennsylvania Spotlight. View all posts
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BACK TO WALL ST. CROOK PAT TOOMEY:
"The CFMA basically ensured the full deregulation of derivatives—completing the process that had begun in the UK in 1986. It was introduced on a Friday night two days after the Supreme Court’s Bush v. Gore decision and right before the Christmas recess. For better or worse (well, for worse), most members of Congress didn’t even read the CFMA or know what it did. It passed overwhelmingly because few people understood it, and it was attached to a 11,000-page, must-pass, pork-stuffed appropriations bill that was going to pass anyway. (Wendy Gramm, Phil Gramm’s wife, had been a key player in the partial derivatives deregulation from 1988 to 1993, when she was at the CFTC.)
Unlike most members of Congress, Toomey, the former derivatives trader, knew exactly what was going on with the CFMA—and had been pushing for it for months. In October, he had urged Congress to pass a similar bill—saying that it would “eliminate most of the cloud of legal and regulatory uncertainty that has shadowed” derivatives since their invention. Two months before that, he boasted to a House banking committee hearing that the derivatives industry “has done enormous good and has been an enormous force for positive change in our economy generally.”
Toomey’s derivatives cheerleading continued for the duration of his time in Congress. In 2001, he boasted on a campaign website that he had been “putting his experience in International finance to work” on “important legislation,” including the “authorization of derivatives trading.” In 2003, he praised the expansion of the derivatives market as “perhaps the most important, creative and innovative development in finance in the last 30 years.”
By the time of the 2008 crash, derivative swaps had grown into a market with a notional worldwide value of $600 trillion—ten times the annual output of every economy in the world. The state banking supervisors who Toomey said would “continue to regulate” swaps did nothing while traders at Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and AIG made bets they couldn’t possibly pay out on. Eventually, the system collapsed on itself.
Toomey didn’t see it coming. In fact, he has a history of playing down the threat of systemic financial problems. The planners of the 1998 LTCM hedge fund bailout were hailed on the cover of Time magazine as the “Committee to Save the World.” But for Toomey, the lesson of the committee’s work was not that the financial system was fragile or that highly leveraged financial institutions could bring others down with them. Nor was it that unregulated, off-exchange derivatives trading could lead to disaster. Instead, he promised Derivatives Strategy readers that he would “resist…any effort to impose inappropriate regulations.” After all, he said, LTCM was a “big problem” that was “essentially solved.” Not everyone agrees. “I have found virtually no evidence that the legalization of speculative derivatives did anything other than increase systemic risk,” Stout says.
In some sense, Toomey’s triumphalist attitude towards derivatives is unsurprising. It’s not just because his ideological conservatism predisposes him to loathe regulation. It’s also because unregulated trading of derivatives benefited him and his family. As Upton Sinclair said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” But perhaps a quote from Derivatives Strategy is more appropriate. After hearing Toomey’s positions on regulation, the trade paper rejoiced. Toomey’s “passionate discourse is music to the ears of derivatives players around the country,” the paper reported. And indeed it was. Unfortunately, things didn’t work out too well for the rest of us.”
How the front-runner in Pennsylvania’s Senate race was at the forefront of the type of risky deals that have put American towns and school districts on the brink of fiscal ruin.
My dad, James A. Pitcherella on the ladder to his crane.
Lukens Steel Company made armor plate for the U.S. Navy & Army. Coatesville PA was a major military target. We had black out curtains to put on windows.
People on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City watched oil tankers torpedoed by U Boats explode.
My dad tried to enlist in the Army but his supervisor at Lukens Steel Company blocked his enlistment. He was an essential experienced crane operator in a company that made armor plate for U.S. Navy ships
Looking at my dad's home movies my brother Joe was often marching. I guess that's why he got a play Army uniform.
There’s no mention of Pearl Harbor or the Battle of Midway in this New York Times article:
The proposed merger of Japanese and American industrial giants, which proponents say would benefit both countries, is ensnared by political and labor opposition.
