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.
Simon Rosenberg has recommendations for action. Beginning with:
Recommended Hopium Actions and Campaigns -
Let’s focus on four current actions to channel our love of country and our frustrations into even more progress today:
1 - Demand Congress Rescind Trump’s Terrible Tariffs -Call/contact your Senators and House Members today and demand roll back these incredibly dangerous and unconstitutional tariffs immediately. Insist they sign on and advocate for the new bi-partisan resolution that would be repeal the tariffs just introduced by Senator Kaine, Paul, Wyden, Shaheen, Welch, Warren and Schumer. It will be coming to a Senate vote in the coming days.
Watch my new interview with Senator Time Kaine to learn more, applaud the critically important law suit brought by Governor Gavin Newsom and the State of California suit challenging the Constitutionality of the these terrible tariffs, and be pleased that 12 other states now have now joined California. These tariffs are without question the greatest abuse of power by an American leader in our history and we must fight with everything we got to roll them back.
Lebensborn e.V. (literally: "Fount of Life") was a secret, SS-initiated, state-registered association in Nazi Germany with the stated goal of increasing the number of children born who met the Nazi standards of "racially pure" and "healthy" Aryans, based on Nazi eugenics (also called "racial hygiene" by some eugenicists). Lebensborn was established by Heinrich Himmler, and provided welfare to its mostly unmarried mothers, encouraged anonymous births by unmarried women at their maternity homes, and mediated adoption of children by likewise "racially pure" and "healthy" parents, particularly SS members and their families. The Cross of Honour of the German Mother was given to the women who bore the most Aryan children. Abortion was legalized (and, more commonly, endorsed) by the Nazis for disabled and non-Germanic children, but strictly punished otherwise.
Texas Paul reports on a new plan being floated by the Trump administration to pay women to have babies.
“Baby bonuses and menstrual cycle classes are among the ideas pitched to Trump aides as they consider plans to try boosting the birthrate.
The White House has been hearing out a chorus of ideas in recent weeks for persuading Americans to get married and have more children, an early sign that the Trump administration will embrace a new cultural agenda pushed by many of its allies on the right to reverse declining birthrates and push conservative family values.
One proposal shared with aides would reserve 30 percent of scholarships for the Fulbright program, the prestigious, government-backed international fellowship, for applicants who are married or have children.
Another would give a $5,000 cash “baby bonus” to every American mother after delivery.
A third calls on the government to fund programs that educate women on their menstrual cycles — in part so they can better understand when they are ovulating and able to conceive.
Those ideas, and others, are emerging from a movement concerned with declining birthrates that has been gaining steam for years and now finally has allies in the U.S. administration, including Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk. Policy experts and advocates of boosting the birthrate have been meeting with White House aides, sometimes handing over written proposals on ways to help or convince women to have more babies, according to four people who have been part of the meetings who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.”
“Elon Musk has solicited women to have his babies on X, shelled out millions of dollars to keep the mothers of his many kids quiet, and talked privately about wanting to sire “legion-level” numbers of children “before the apocalypse.” That’s according to an extensive new report from The Wall Street Journal, which details how the baby-making billionaire keeps his brood of (at least) 14 children and the women who birthed them in check.
It’s a rare peek behind the curtain of what one woman Musk reportedly propositioned described as Musk’s “harem drama.” It’s also a revealing look inside the paranoid mind of one of the world’s most powerful people, whose obsession with dwindling birth rates has contributed to his apparent belief that civilization is on the brink of collapse, necessitating a backup plan on Mars.
The report leans heavily on the story of Ashley St. Clair, the conservative influencer who went public in February about having Musk’s child. As recently as last month, Musk said he wasn’t sure “if the child is mine or not.” But the Journal’s report is loaded with receipts, including text messages between Musk and St. Clair illustrating their relationship, as well as a paternity test result from last week showing there is a “99.9999%” chance that Musk is the father.
In one text viewed by the Journal, Musk suggested during St. Clair’s pregnancy that they move faster with their baby-making. “To reach legion-level before the apocalypse,” Musk's message reportedly read, “we will need to use surrogates.”
In another, sent months after St. Clair delivered the baby, Musk reportedly replied to a selfie of St. Clair, writing, “I want to knock you up again.”
St. Clair said she was offered $15 million and a monthly stipend of $100,000 until the baby was 21, in exchange for agreeing to keep Musk’s relationship to the baby and to St. Clair secret. In a text message reported by the Journal, Musk wrote that privacy was necessary because he is “#2 after Trump for assassination” and that “only the paranoid survive.”
After St. Clair declined to sign, and later went public with her story, the Journal reports that Musk withdrew the $15 million offer and recently dropped payments to St. Clair down to $20,000 a month. According to St. Clair's lawyers, her legal fees in her fight against Musk have already surpassed $240,000.
St. Clair is not the only woman that Musk reportedly punished for perceived indiscretion. According to the Journal, Musk also offered to impregnate crypto influencer Tiffany Fong, after following her on X, but without ever meeting her in person. The online attention from Musk reportedly boosted Fong’s following, enabling her to make $21,000 in a two-week period from X’s creator program. But after Fong opted not to take Musk up on the offer, and confided in friends about it, Musk unfollowed Fong, prompting both her income and engagement on X to decline, the Journal reported.
The big attractions, what are now called “the WOW factor” by community planners were the events at the Ben Franklin Parkway, the buildings surrounding it such as the Art Museum, Rodin Museum and further down what is now called Kelly Drive with Boathouse Row. (I rowed for a while at the Fairmont Club) and the largest municipal park in the USA, Fairmont Park.
The first event was “Earth Week, April 16-22”.
It was very exciting to live in the Art Museum Area at that time. I think that “Earth Week” was a turning point and after that event there was a sort of rocket like climb in people wanting to live and play in the “Art Museum Area”.
Below is the video “Earth Day 1970 CBS News Special Report with Walter Cronkite”. At the time Philadelphia was incredibly polluted.
The Delaware River had a repulsive odor.
The Delaware was known as one of the dirtiest rivers on earth by ship captains because fires started from the friction of the ship's bow in the polluted water when they steamed up the Delaware.
The air was so dirty that people including me, when I came back from a run on East River Drive, were sick enough to throw up and nearly pass out from breathing the air. On that same day there were reports of high school football teams collapsing on the practice fields around the Middle Atlantic States.
The Clean Water Act made possible the Delaware River Waterfront where you can put your boat in upstream and go to dinner in Philadelphia.
"DRWC will host a weekly series of guided nature walks along the Delaware River in partnership with the Land Health Institute. These two-hour “Wonder Walks” will take place every Thursday beginning April 10, offering guests an immersive exploration of the Waterfront’s evolving natural landscape. Each walk will highlight a different theme—from native plants and wildlife to birds and insects and the cultural and ecological history surrounding the area’s former industrial piers.'
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“Sen. Edmund Muskie, Democrat of Maine and the bill’s principal sponsor, had emphasized during the initial vote that the Senate’s Committee on Public Works had spent two years studying the nation’s Federal Water Pollution Control Program, only to conclude that the national effort to abate and control water pollution was “inadequate in every vital aspect.”
One example: A 1969 report by the Government Accountability Office found that of 80 industrial plants with state permits to discharge waste within a 170-mile reach of the Mississippi River, 28 of the plants disclosed no information at all on the amount of waste they were discharging, according to “Clean Water Act: Thirty Year Retrospective.”
In the initial vote before the Senate on the bill, Muskie had said:
“(T)oday, the rivers of this country serve as little more than sewers to the seas. Wastes from cities and towns, from farms and forests, from mining and manufacturing, foul the streams, poison the estuaries, threaten the life of the ocean depths. The danger to health, the environmental damage, the economic loss can be anywhere.
“Just a ten-minute walk from this Chamber, the Potomac River is a hazard to health. The Georgetown Gap in the District of Columbia’s sewer pipelines allows 15 million gallons of raw sewage to pour into the river every day.
“A Federal biologist, speaking of mercury, says he can find no chemical potentially worse for man. Mercury is toxic. It is cumulative. It is persistent. While the biologist speaks, a factory discharges into the Detroit River a daily dose of 10 to 20 pounds of mercury.
“In a single day, 10 million fish die in a Florida bay. It is not the first fish kill in the bay, and it is known that wastes are dumped into its waters, but the cause of death is given as a lack of oxygen in the bay.
“An oil spill releases more than 700 tons of fuel oil into the waters off the Massachusetts coast. Later, scientists using a dredge find that more than 90 percent of the organisms brought up from the bottom in the area of the spill are dead or dying.
“In 1969, the Council on Environmental Quality reports, nearly a fourth of this country’s shellfish crop could not be harvested. The men and women who make their living from the shellfish crop suffered an economic loss of more than $60 million.”
The morning after Nixon’s veto, Muskie reiterated the comments he’d made when the Senate had first passed the Act. “Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make life possible on this planet? Can we afford life itself?”
“Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our Nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them,” Muskie said.
Only two hours after the president vetoed the Act, the Senate voted 52-12 to override, with 17 of the votes in favor coming from Republicans.
The House followed, voting 247 to 23 to override — more than ten to one — with 96 of the yes votes from Republicans.
In 2003, Ruckelshaus, Nixon’s EPA administrator, wrote that two-thirds of the nation’s waters were then safe for fishing and swimming.
“Of course, this means that a third of rivers and streams are not safe for fishing and swimming,” he wrote.
He continued, “(W)e all are part of the problem, and we all must be part of the solution. It is to this challenge that the nation must rise.”
With the current administration’s move to upend the Clean Water Act, that challenge now lies with us.”
Is it fascism? The death camp part fits but Hitler & Mussolini didn’t destroy the economy of Germany & Italy. A man I knew was an artillery man with the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. He said Hitler did bad things but he gave people jobs. Trump is destroying jobs.
Trump has a nearly lifetime association with the Russian mob beginning in Little Odesa at his dads Brighten Beach properties.
Trump invited Russian spies into a meeting in the White House:
PUTIN IS POPPING CHAMPAIGN BECAUSE OF TRUMP BUT TRUMP IS TOO DUMB TO BE A SPY.
THE ONLY PEICE THAT COMPLETES THE TRUMP PUZZLE IS THE TECH BARON NETWORK STATE
The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
Why Tech Billionaires Want to Seize Greenland
"So Donald Trump is threatening to steal Greenland from Denmark. And a group funded by Silicon Valley billionaires plans to build a new tech city there.
It sounds utterly bizarre — but it’s even weirder and scarier than you think. Greenland’s tech driven takeover isn’t about one frozen island. It’s about Silicon Valley billionaires taking over the entire world.
Because the plot to build a new city in Greenland is part of an extremist tech ideology called the Network State.
Here’s a quick Network State refresher:
A cultish group of tech billionaires has decided that democracy no longer matters. They want to establish new territories — tiny corporate countries — under their control.
These would be pure corporate autocracies — fiefdoms where tech elites have total power.
The Network State philosophy comes from extreme reactionary thinkers like Curtis Yarvin and Balaji Srinivasan. There’s even an entire Network State conference every year focused on creating these dystopias around the world.
One of the key players in The Network State? A startup called Praxis. The company says it has raised over $525 million to build a new city from scratch.
The project’s investors include funds connected to Peter Thiel, Sam Altman and Marc Andreessen. A key idea in Praxis is to create a city based on crypto-economics and government controlled by Silicon Valley eggheads.
In fact, Balaji Srinivasan — the guy who wrote the Network State book — is an investor in Praxis.. He calls the plan a form of “tech Zionism.”
Until recently, Praxis called itself a Network State project. Last year, the project’s website declared it would be the “First Network State” and “The Next America — Built on the Internet.”Their pitch was: “As local communities dissolve and Nation States stumble, Network States will ascend …The next global superpower will be a Network State.”
But today, Praxis seems to be downplaying the Network State connection on its website. Why? They might be trying to soften their pitch for their next target.
And that target is Greenland.
Praxis wants to turn the Danish territory into a Network State. Let’s talk about WHY
Size and Space: Greenland is massive — three times the size of Texas, but only 57,000 residents.Wealth: Under the island ice are cold, hard assets. Greenland is rich in rare-earth minerals, oil and gas reserves and more.
Location: With climate change emptying Greenland’s ice and glaciers, some billionaires see a juicy opportunity to move in before the melt to take land that will only become more valuable
That’s the Why. Now let’s talk about the How.
Trump has fantasized about buying Greenland for years. Now he’s floating other things. From bribing the residents outright with yearly payments. To possibly taking the territory by force.
And he just named a new ambassador to Denmark — Ken Howery — to drive what comes next. Howery has deep connections to Peter Thiel, one of the key influencers of the Network State movement.
Expect Trump’s obsession with Greenland to escalate. He sees it as the ultimate real estate deal. He dreams of stealing the land and selling it off to his tech billionaires buddies so they can harvest the natural resources and build their weird Network State city.
On a recent visit to Greenland – Vice President JD Vance, who owes his entire political career to Peter Thiel — attacked Denmark. He told our NATO partner: "You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland.” When the commander of the U.S. military base in Greenland pledged that “all of our flags will fly proudly — together” — she was fired.
The conflict over Greenland is only heating up. But remember what’s driving it: a billionaire war on democracy.
The Network State, which is also pushing for Trump’s dystopian “freedom cities,” is actively encouraging the takeover of Greenland.
Call it what it is: a colonization fantasy mixed with billionaire secessionism. And it isn’t just a kooky idea spread by Silicon Valley trolls on the internet. It’s a serious movement—backed by billionaires and powered by ideology. But now — it’s shaping America’s foreign policy."
