Wednesday, December 31, 2008

UP FRONT News September 24, 2010
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GETTING THE FULL STORY
Some cliches, with a bit of adjustment, are true. One such is "the rich get richer while the poor get poorer", although it may be more accurate to suggest that "the rich get richer while just about everyone else gets poorer." With the tanking of the economy into a very severe recession, the rich have for the most part been exempted from anything approaching deprivation, while the incidence of homelessness becomes increasingly widespread with the epidemic of foreclosures, layoffs, and in major cities gentrification and "rentflation." (The federal government maintains that there little inflation - thereby justifying no increases in Social Security benefits for two years - but seems to ignore the realities of millions of tenants.)
Some people on left in particular complain (understandably I believe) that corporatism so dominates the media that much news that exposes true power of huge money is suppressed. (Folks on the right complain that the media is dominated by liberals.) While there is no question that many true stories do not appear in the mainstream media, the First Amendment is not dead. And so I intend to note important stories that appear in the media that essentially document the "rich get richer" reality - among other truisms.
On August 23 of this year The New York Times ran a story headlined "23 Million Possible Reasons For Chief to Leave Her Bank." The article was about a severance package of $23 million that would be awarded to Peyton Patterson, if and when she leaves her position as chief executive of NewAlliance Bancshares. Compare that to a typical severance payment of a retiring worker. In fact the $23 million package pales in comparison to more extravagant "golden parachutes" (and bonuses awarded to people like Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs bank).
The Times also ran a story last August 3 headlined "After 99 weeks, Only Desperation" focusing on the very real tribulations of Ms. Alexandra Jarrin, who was laid off and now finds herself totally incomeless as her 99 weeks of unemplyment benefits expire.
A friend told me about an online news service "Legitgov.com" which posts articles from around the world that may never reach people who rely on one or two news sources, if any.
Even the New York Post ran a story, first appearing in the Guardian in Great Britain reporting that it was the quartermaster at the wheel's error that resulted in the sinking of the Titanic almost 100 years ago. According to the story, the Quartermaster misunderstood a direction to steer to the right, instead turning left and straight into an iceberg. The informant, (highest ranking survivor of the disaster), revealed that he withheld that information from investigators because he "feared that it would bankrupt the White Star Line."
Sometimes it can take many years for a full story to come out.
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THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE MARGINALLY QUALIFIED CAROLINE KENNEDY AS U.S. SENATOR. IT IS THE TOTALLY UNQUALIFIED HILLARY CLINTON AS SECRETARY OF STATE.

UP FRONT News December 19, 2008
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By Tom Weiss

The problem is not Caroline Kennedy (although I can think of many people, such as New York City Councilman Tony Avella, political science professor Steven Gradman, and myself, who are more qualified for the U.S. Senate than Ms. Kennedy). The problem is the fact that Hillary Clinton's ascension to the position of Secretary of State is being treated as a "done deal."

Especially taking into account her wandering husband's mega-money ties to financiers, criminals and dictators, Hillary Clinton is a living, breathing conflict of interest. The fact that both Clintons are directly involved in the coverup of the Chinese Communist Genocide in Tibet exemplifies the reality of the conflict of interest. The Clintons are a major political voice for the mega-corporate China Lobby, (for which the Stalinist-Maoist Joel Meyers is also a voice).

In fact as readers of UP FRONT News at www.tomsupfrontnews.blogspot.com are aware, I discussed in particular the Tibet Genocide and the Clintons' involvement in the coverup directly with Michelle Obama when she and I met on June 27, 2007 at a campaign event at the Our Children's Foundation in Harlem.

At this point, it appears that the coverup also includes Barack Obama, which raises the question as to what investments he may have in the hedge fund known as the People's Republic of China.

I have been asked by the Executive Editor of The New York Times to send my material on this matter to Dean Baquet, Chief of The Times' Washington Bureau. I spoke by telephone to Mr. Baquet's assistant Ashley, who later e-mailed me an acknowledgement that Baquet had received my correspondence. Hearing nothing in reply UP FRONT News Communications Director Frank De Luca and I called The Times' Washington Bureau and had a chance to talk for several minutes with Mr. Baquet, who, after I described my earlier correspondence with an update, expressed clear interest and asked me to re-send my material.

The Times has an unfortunate history when it comes to reporting on Genocide, having willfully suppressed very credible reports n the 1930's and 1940's about the developing Nazi Holocaust against the Jews. Bill Clinton's record (e.g. the Rwanda Genocide) is just as bad.

At this point only one politician has gone on record with me as being ready to investigate all this. That official is New York State Senator Bill Perkins, a major player in the Obama campaign and the man standing right next to me during my June 26, 2007 conversation with Michelle Obama.

Potentially on the spot is U.S. Congressman Jerrold L. Nadler, my former congressman and a reader of UP FRONT News, who knows plenty about the Tibet Genocide. He also knows plenty about Bill Clinton's criminal retaliatory actions against me on January 19, 1993 (the day before Bill Clinton's first inauguration) when he and Warren Christopher had me arrested at the U.S. Capitol when I was there with an invitation to appear at the U.S. Senate Committe on Foreign Relations after Clinton had suppressed the documents I had gotten to him and Christopher via Bill Clinton's secretary Betty M. Currie. I and others have copies of her fax to me acknowledging receipt of my material on Tibet. It was Jerry Nadler whom I called from jail and who presumably helped me get released and presumably helped to obtain for me a very good public defender lawyer, who represented me at the July, 1993 trial where at a jury trial before Judge Satterfield I was acquitted.

I have been in telephone contact with Gov. David Paterson via several high level aides and I expect to be sending him the facts on Hillary Clinton by e-mail very soon. Under any circumstances, assuming that the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations does a rush job and approves Obama's nomination of Mrs. Clinton to be Secretary of State, as the facts about her become known, her tenure may be abbreviated. And then, if Caroline Kennedy is already a U.S. Senator, Hillary Clinton will be out of a job. Sort of like Bernie Madoff.
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Saturday, December 13, 2008

THE OBAMA SELLOUT BEGINS. HILLARY CLINTON AND ROBERT RUBIN ARE CORPORATE REPRESENTATIVES AND HOSTILE TO HUMAN RIGHTS.

UP FRONT News December 2, 2008
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THE OBAMA SELLOUT BEGINS. HILLARY CLINTON AND ROBERT RUBIN ARE CORPORATE REPRESENTATIVES AND HOSTILE TO HUMAN RIGHTS.
THE CLINTONS' COVERUP OF THE GENOCIDE IN TIBET AND THEIR ACTIONS
AGAINST ME. MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE VOTED FOR CYNTHIA McKINNEY

By Tom Weiss

During the primary and general elections, there were many progressives who, while fully acknowledging the reality that the Republican Party and its McCain/Palen ticket are reac-tionary to the core, refused to vote for Barack Obama, either in the Democratic primary (where a handful voted for Dennis Kucinich) or in the general election (where a handful voted for Cynthia McKinney and a slightly larger handful voted for Ralph Nader). Those voters as well as the much larger group, while registered to vote, refused to cast ballots.

That population expressed the view that, while Obama and McCain were hardly ideologically identical, the Democrat was nonetheless a little more than a corporate tool, all his populist rhetoric notwithstanding. Nonetheless, in part because of my strong objections to extremist (read Lyndon LaRouche/Lenora Fulani) elements in the Kucinich, Nader and McKinney cam-paigns, and because on certain issues (e.g. labor rights) Obama was more progressive than McCain and because I believed Obama's claims as to his original opposition to the Iraq War, I endorsed Obama in UP FRONT News and, in various public speaking appearances around New York, urged listeners to vote for Obama both in the Democratic primary and in the gen- eral election. Had I gone the "third party" route I would have probably voted for Ms. McKin- ney, whom I have met on several occasions and who supports self-determination for Tibet.

Much of my preference for Obama stemmed directly from my deep political antipathy for Hillary Clinton (as well as for her corrupt and egotistical husband). Monica Lewinsky still
represents (maybe to Bill also) a breath of fresh air. I confess I would probably vote for Hillary Clinton if the alternative for me was to be waterboarded.

In allowing both his arms to be Clinton-twisted into a challah and nominating Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State, President-elect Obama has proven that he is in fact a corporate tool and in fact an apologist for genocide - no matter what Mrs. Clinton and he may say about Darfur.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are up to their proverbial political eyeballs in the coverup of the racist Chinese Communist Genocide in Tibet. As a great many people (including the steadily increasing numbers of UP FRONT News readers in New York and beyond) are aware, it was I who brought the facts of the Genocide in Tibet very directly to Bill Clinton very shortly after he was elected in November, 1992. I got the facts to him and to his absolutely awful mega-corporate choice of Secretary of State Warren Christopher via Betty M. Currie, who office managed the Little Rock-based Clinton Transition Team and served as Bill Clinton's secretary. I have plenty of copies of Ms. Currie's December 11, 1992 fax to me acknowledging receipt the materials I faxed to her at her request during my first long telephone conversation with her from my home telephone at the time, 212-334-9847.

Ms. Currie gave multiple copies of my material to Bill Clinton and Warren Christopher.
They buried everything.

The plot thickened considerably when I received a written invitation from the office of U.S. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan (D.-N.Y.) to appear at the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearings on Bill Clinton's nomination of Christopher to be Secretary of State.
Because of reports that Christopher had been involved in snooping of anti-Viet Nam War activists, the hearing was postponed until January 19, 1993, the day before Bill Clinton's first inauguration.

Within moments of my arrival, with an UP FRONT News assistant, in the Committee reception area at the U.S. Capitol, several U.S. Capitol Police entered the room and arrested me.
With my one (delayed) telephone call, I called my congressman, Jerrold L. Nadler, who already knew me for my free Tibet activism and who was also helping me resist a greedy and politically (Ed Koch)-connected loftlord named Thomas Berger at my then loft home at 190-A Duane Street #5 in the overwhelmingly gentrified neighborhood now known as Tribeca.

I spent the night at what one apparently psychopathic cop laughingly called "the worst jail in the country"; I even refused the possibly toxic bologna sandwich squeezed through the cell bars.

I was released the next day (as Bill Clinton was being inaugurated) and met my public de- fender attorney (whose name I do not recall at this time), an African-American woman with an Angela Davis hairstyle who, as a civil rights specialist, had asked for my case. After my meeting with her I returned to New York.

Some days later the attorney called me and advised me that the Clinton Administration was offering me some kind of plea deal if I agreed to take responsibility for me arrest. Since it was Bill Clinton, Warren Christopher, et. al., who broke the law and violated my civil rights, I said, paraphrased, "No way!."

At a jury trial before Judge Satterfield the following July, I was acquitted. A reporter then ap- proached me and asked me if I knew the large Frankenstein-resembling man observing the trial. I told him that I did not know the man. The reporter told me that he was the #3 man in the State Department.

My free Tibet activities continued and Bill Clinton continued his Tibet Genocide coverup and his perhaps somewhat understandable womanizing.

After Chicago/Little Rock/Chappaqua transplant Hillary Clinton carpetbagged her way into becoming a U.S. Senator, and apparently before she became acquainted with my Tibet dealings with her husband (who over the years has kept many secrets from his wife), she assisted me on one occasion with a Social Security-related problem. Indeed, she sent me as I recall two personal letters assuring me that I could always count on her for assistance.

That turned out to be nothing more than another Clinton lie. In fact, when, while I was home-less and had been robbed, I had a similar Social Security-related emergency, Mrs. Clinton refused to help. In fact, she had an aide, the politically connected (Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV) Yajaria Yepez, send a defamatory and threatening e-mail about me on September 5, 2003 to my evidently easily intimidated younger brother Jim in upstate New York. I and others have copies.

Senator Clinton also had an "investigator" named "Mr. Zimmerman" - who told me that Mrs. Clinton had personally instructed him to speak to me on the phone - verbalize an explicit threat against me after revealing that Mrs. Clinton had me under surveillance. (A paranoid person as Secretary of State?)

Any vetting of Mrs. Clinton and her husband has to include a thorough investigation of all this by law enforcement, including the NYPD and presumably the FBI. I am making certain that law enforcement has all the facts regarding criminal behavior involving Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Unless Barack Obama had picked perhaps Sarah Palin or Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of State, it is hard to see how he could have made a worse choice.

The Clintons are both proven liars. As I have said and written previously, they not only lie to
Americans and to the rest of the world, they lie to each other.

John McCain repeatedly said that Barack Obama is not ready to be president. Taking into consideration the nomination of Hillary Clinton and the inner circle status of corporate power
players such as former (Bill Clinton) Treausury Secretary Robert Rubin (whose "welfare reform" ripped up the safety net and worsenened the homelessness crisis) McCain's assessment appears to have been correct.

Barack Obama needs to have a conversation about me with his wife Michelle, who should have little difficulty in remembering my Tibet and Hillary Clinton-related conversation with her at the Our Children's Foundation in Harlem on June 26, 2007 with major Obama supporter State Senator Bill Perkins (D.-Manh.) standing right next to me. Mrs. Obama listened to my perhaps three minute account, accepted my articles (including some on my write-in candidacy for the U.S. Senate against Mrs. Clinton, http://www.tomweissdemocratforussenate.blogspot.com/, and assured me that she would give them to her husband.

I have received some e-mails from African-American groups opposing Mrs. Clinton as Sec- retary of State. Following his receipt from me of a copy of my UP FRONT News article head- lined "Hillary Clinton Is Unfit to Be Secretary of State. The Clintons' Involvement in the Coverup of the Chinese Communist Genocide in Tibet. The Clintons' Retaliations Against Me. My Tibet Conversation with Michelle Obama. The Tibet Genocide Is Racist. Time for Congressman Nadler to Tell the Facts to Obama" and a copy of my e-mail to Obama Transition Team Co-chair John Podesta and colleagues, Senator Perkins replied to me with an assurace that he will "look into this."

I live in Staten Island, where the number of UP FRONT News readers is increasing daily. That is a very good thing politically because until recently there has been something of a de facto media monopoly occupied by the very politically tightly controlled Staten Island Advance. The political editor at that paper is Tom Wrobleski, who sat on the story of my U.S. Senate candidacy against Hillary Clinton for months (and then got scooped by Newsday), and who sees his role as protecting the political establishment, regardless of party. Wrobleski once told one of my UP FRONT News representatives that he did not "care" what I said about the Genocide in Tibet and Hillary Clinton. Perhaps Mrs. Clinton will consider the taciturn Wrobleski (who covered up for the belatedly disgraced Vito Fossella for years until the "family values" Staten Island
Congressman was arrested on a DUI in Virginia as he was swerving to his lover's house) to be one of her press aides, wherever she winds up.

Much of Staten Island is ruled by a Hillary Clinton-run political machine consisting of a
lily-white group of politicians including State Assemblyman Matthew Titone, State Senator Diane Savino, outgoing City Councilman and Clintonite Michael McMahon and the increasingly machine-docile Assemblywoman Janele Hyer-Spencer. Now that Mr. McMahon has been "elected" to the congress in a NYC Board of Elections-mismanaged election (I ran as a write-in candidate and, when it comes to write-in procedures and practices, the NYCBOE is apparently in violation of federally guaranteed voting rights) there is much competition to fill his City Council seat. I am acquainted with two African-American candidates: College of Staten Island teacher and activist Debi Rose, and Rev. Tony Baker, Pastor of the St. Phillips Baptist Church. Since the City Council addresses international issues, including Tibet - the major Free Tibet voice there is Councilman Tony Avella, (D.-Queens) - their views on the Tibet Genocide Coverup/Clinton matter are important. Ms. Rose has let me know that she is not happy about Obama's choice of Mrs. Clinton to be Secretary of State. Rev. Baker - who is disturbingly close to the aforementioned S.I. political machine, especially the ethically challenged and seriously negligent Titone and Titone's political mother superior City Council Speaker Christine Quinn - has been silent as far as I am aware.

State Senator Perkins, after receiving an e-mailed copy of my UP FRONT News article
"Hillary Clinton Is Unfit to Be Secretary of State. The Clintons' Direct Involvement in the Coverup of the Chinese Communist Genocide in Tibet. The Clintons' Retaliations Against Me. The Tibet Genocide Is Racist. Time for Congressman nadler to Tell the Facts to Obama" and a copy of my e-mail to Obama Transition Team Co-chairperson John Podesta and his colleagues, thanked me in his reply and assured me that he "will look into this."

Aside from myself, the most outspoken and politically potent voice on the Tibet issue in Staten Island has been Rev. Demetrius Carolina, Pastor of the also steadily increasing in size First Central Baptist Church, of which I am a member. Rev. Carolina, who is also a college political science teacher and a regular UP FRONT News reader, is one of the relatively few African-Americans to denounce Communist China for the Genocide in Tibet.

Hillary Clinton has reportedly expressed an interest in speaking at First Central. I hope that
any Clinton appearance at the church will happen after she no longer holds any political office and after she comes clean about Tibet - and about me.

I think perhaps Councilman Avella and/or Senator Perkins would be better choices.
In any event, Hillary Clinton is a corporation-loyal enemy of human rights (including mine), an apologist for genocide and is fundamentally unqualified to be Secretary of State.
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STRENGTHENING TENANTS RIGHTS IN NEW YORK. RESURRECT "FLYNN-DEARIE."

UP FRONT News December 11, 2008
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STRENGTHENING TENANTS RIGHTS IN NEW YORK. RESURRECT "FLYNN-DEARIE."
RENT "STABLIZATION" IS A LOOPHOLE-RIDDLED SHAM. REQUIRE OWNERS TO
OPEN THEIR BOOKS, END VACANCY DECONTROL AND "OWNER OCCUPANCY"
DISPLACEMENT. AND (POLITICALLY) DISPLACE MIKE McKEE.

By Tom Weiss

Thanks to the power of the real estate lobby in all the major political parties in New York, rent protection laws are inadequate, a major contributing factor in the steadily worsening affordable housing crisis and the related metastasis of homelessness. The fact is that, particularly in New York City, the citizens here lose what we most need and in fact get what we least need. i.e. luxury housing and obscenely overpaid athletes. The real estate section of the Sunday New York Times and the sports pages of any newspaper are proof positive of that reality. There is little likelihood that newly signed pitcher C.C. Sabathia or his narcissistic Madonna/Kabbalah-entranced teammate, Alex Rodriguez (over $26 million a "year" for a part-time job), paid by the taxpayer-subsidized outfit known as the New York Yankees will wind up on a waiting list for Section 8 housing.

That is part of the political and economic context generating the well attended tenants rights rally on December 9 at the Ethical Culture Center in a very wealthy section of Manhattan. The rally focused in the imminent battle in the New York State legislature to eliminate "vacancy decontrol", whereby a rent-stabilized apartment that reaches $2,000/month can go much. much, much higher.

The fact that a rent stabilized apartment can be leased lawfully at $2,000/month shows what is wrong with the existing loophole-ridden rent "protection" system in New York in the first place. Rent "stabilization" is a sham. It is a sham because it is based on a system under which landlords, in demanding periodic rent increases before the NYC Rent Guidelines Board, are allowed to plead poverty while keeping their books closed.

In fact landlords (not all, but many) have been known to cook their books as if they were were among the world's finest chefs. I know from my experience in the last millennium with Thomas Berger, one of the greediest, most politically connected landlords since the Old Testament and the owner of a loft building at 190-A Duane Street in Tribeca (the mega-gen-trified neighborhood I call DeNirostan) where I lived from 1977 until 1993 (5 1/2 of those years without heat and water thanks to the avaricious Ed Koch pal Berger, a resident of Forest Hills, Queens). Indeed under the euphemism known as rent stabilization, Berger ripped off a rent increase of over almost 400% approved by the landlord-tilted NYC Loft Board.

Among the people most responsible for the Swiss cheese "stablization" laws under which massive gentrification and displacement have taken place, aside from the overt and well or- ganized real estate lobby have been self-appointed "tenants rights leaders" such as Mike ("The Knife") McKee and his pal in the loft Chuck ("Ol' Loophole") Delaney.

It was McKee and Delaney who quietly conspired in 1980 with in particular "liberal" Demo- cratic legislators who took campaign cash from the real estate lobby to insert a provision into the Loft Law allowing landlords to pass along "legalization" costs as rent increases. And when I traveled to Albany to try to prevent that, they arranged with a seriously mentally unstable legislative aide to former State Assemblyman Paul Viggiano (D.-Manh.) have me arrested in the Legislative Office Building. No kidding! The result was a Loft Law so loophole-riddled that it resulted in the wholesale luxurization of loft districts such as SoHo, NoHo, TriBeCa and DUMBO under rent "stabilization." As far as I am aware, among the relatively few protected loft tenants has been Delaney, who lives in a financial district Pearl Street building from which another loft tenant suddenly and mysteriously disappeared - forever.

As far as I am aware the only bill ever introduced into the New York state legislature that would have properly protected tenants was the reccurently buried in the last millennium Flynn-Dearie Rent Protection Act. The key provision of that bill was that it required any owner of a multiple dwelling seeking a rent increase to prove need by opening his or her books for auditing by the state. That provision of course was anathema to the landlords and their friends. Among those friends were - and are - Mike McKee and Chuck Delaney.

Among the organizations supporting Flynn-Dearie was the Metropolitan Council on Housing, then led by activists such as Jane Benedict and Esther Rand. Mike Mckee split the tenants movement by creating the New York Neighborhood and Tenants Coalition and opposed
Flynn-Dearie, claiming that the "open the books" provision was "too cumbersome."

In fact, since the "Flynn" in Flynn-Dearie was State Senator John Flynn, a conservative but tenant-sensitive Republican legislator from Yonkers, the Flynn-Dearie Rent Protection Act, unlike other tenant bills, could have passed. John Dearie was a Democratic State Assemblyman from the Parkchester area of the Bronx. Had Flynn-Dearie become law, gentrification would have been essentially stopped, while landlords actually in need of rent increases would have been protected.

Mike McKee, who will not talk about his reported ties to the right-wing Manhattan Institute, is to an important degree responsible for a great many displacements.

Mike McKee and Chuck Delaney are what are known as fifth columnists, i.e. reactionary infiltrators camouflaged as populists. (The term was originally applied to politically well-camouflaged pseudo-leftists collaborating with Francisco Franco before and during the Spanish Civil War.)

The last time I saw McKee as a speaker spouting his militant populist rhetoric was in April, 2007 at a rally in front of 47 East 3rd Street in Manhattan in support of the tenants of that building being displaced by the landlord Economakis family by means of "owner occupancy." Evictions of rent-protected tenants in this way are, as the courts have ruled, "legal." Why? Because of a loophole in the rent stabilization laws. The notion of McKee speaking at such a rally was analagous to perhaps Dick Cheney addressing a Quaker meeting and so I used my First Amendment rights to somewhat spontaneously educate the public as McKee slunk off to the rear of the rally with his baseball cap pulled halfway over his eyes "perp-walk"-style. A more sincere speech on that day was delivered by East Village activist and Ben Shaoul tenant Monte Schapiro.

The December 9 rally at the Ethical Culture center was addressed by several state legislators, most vociferously by State Senator Tom Duane (D.-Manh.), who pledged that vacancy decontrol will be ended in the upcoming legislative session. As far as I am concerned, while that would be a step in the right direction, the chronic problems afflicting tenants will remain until a Flynn-Dearie-type law requiring landlords to open their books and closing the owner occupancy loophole is enacted.

I've spoken to several legislators, including Assemblymembers Linda Rosenthal (D.-Manh.), Brian Kavanagh (D.-Manh.) and State Senator Andrew Lanza (R.-S.I.) about this. All three have expressed support for the Flynn-Dearie "open the books" concept. What a politician says, however, means little until something is put into writing (at least to me), something that Rosenthal, Kavanagh, and Lanza have not yet done. (I hope they're not worried about the politically receding Mike McKee, who has been the subject of puff coverage in the mainstream media but has been more thoroughly covered in UP FRONT News.)

As a resident of the very gentrification and highrise-threatened working class community of Stapleton on Staten Island's North Shore, which the developers would like to "upscale" into another Lower Manhattan (with little in the way of real resistance from the elected officials and the City Council candidate wannabes) as far as I was able to tell, there were relatively
few Staten Islanders at the December 9 rally. One sponsoring group, Make the Road New York, has offices in Queens, Brooklyn and S.I.

Mike McKee, in his tenants rights uniform, may still try to confuse people with his uncon-vincing impersonations of Che Guevara but at Ethical Culture he wisely did not appear on the speakers' platform. Also absent was McKee pal, the recurrently tenants rights spouting New York City Council Speaker Christine ("The Flighty") Quinn, who has been known to accept much campaign cash from the real estate lobby.
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WHY IS THE STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE PROTECTING LYNDON LAROUCHE?

UP FRONT News December 5, 2008
Published by Tom Weiss
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By Tom Weiss

Quite a number of years ago, there was a large story in the Columbia Journalism Review reporting the details of how very well politically camouflaged agents of the mega-fascist
megalomaniac cult leader Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. had becoming embedded at the highest levels of NBC News. When discovered, they were summarily dismissed. Also some years ago, when it was discovered that two "Democrats" (LaRouche is a registered Democrat) elected to two of the top three statewide offices in Illinois were camouflaged LaRoucheites, that became a big headlined front page story in The New York Times and elsewhere.

New Hampshire born and Massachusetts raised LaRouche, a convicted felon with long ties to the ultra-left (e.g.Maoists) and the ultra-right (KKK), started out as a very socially malad-
justed leftist with ties to both Stalinists and Trotskyites. In his strategy of achieving what he refers to as "hegemony over the left" LaRouche's agents sowed factional dissension which often involved violence, as his people infiltrated CPUSA meetings and, at the appointed moments pulled clubs out of their pants legs (a la Geoffrey Blank pal and St. Mark's in-the-Bowery Church "9/11 Truth" hanger-on Karl Rosenstein) and pummeled the Reds. He called it "Operation Mop-up."

In the 1970's LaRouche became very well known as "Lyn Marcus", a "marxist" faculty member at City College, living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It was while at City College he met and began to collaborate with a faculty colleague, Fred Newman. It was "psychotherapist" Newman who created the sex-with-your-therapist cult known as "social therapy" and who politically spawned the African-American racist Lenora Fulani and their pseudo-left New Alliance Party.

As far as I am aware, the first journalist to expose this hoax was me. Based on information provided by me to then Village Voice journalist Joe Conason (now with the New York Observer) the Voice did a story on the NAP in 1981 (without acknowledging that the story was first reported in UP FRONT News).

As is chronicled by investigative reporter Dennis King in his very unauthorized biography of LaRouche "The New American Fascism", LaRouche played an important behind the scenes violence-encouraging role in the Columbia University anti-Viet Nam War Mark Rudd "led" demonstrations in the 1960's.

Although the kleptomanaical LaRouche got convicted in the 1980's for credit card and mail fraud in a front page trial in Boston and did about seven years in federal penitentiaries in Massachusetts and Minnesota, he never gave up his dreams of total power. LaRouche, a worshiper of things German (who created the teutonic Schiller Institute, which has spawned ideologues like "9/11 Truth" favorite Webster Tarpley) fully believes that only he is fit to rule and leads a cult of followers who slavishly regard him as a god. He developed a violent brainwashing technique known as "ego stripping."

LaRouche has for decades made major use of the Mussolini and Hitler tactic known as the "fifth column", which involves agents camouflaging themselves in leftist disguise, often in populist Lenora Fulani Geoffrey Blank-style rhetoric. It invariably involves outlefting the small "d" democratic left. The populism and Black Power-spouting New Alliance Party was a classic LaRouche fifth column operation.

Mussolini and Hitler (Hitler, remember, called himself a "socialist") first applied the fifth col- umn tactic internationally in Spain before and during the Spanish Civil war by infiltrating the large and politically diverse Spanish left (Communists, Socialists, and many anarchists) causing major factionalization and ultimately contributing to Francisco Franco's victory.

In recent years LaRouche has been actively fifth columning his way into the left via embedding his people in the peace movement and the Green Party. Key operatives, all loyal to Lenora Fulani (who won't talk about LaRouche), include outwardly articulate and recurrently rational frauds such as Paul ("Zool") Zulkowitz, who got himself deeply embedded in the peace movement, the Ralph Nader for president campaigns, and with the extraordinarily politically gullible peace mom Cindy Sheehan. Zulkowitz was exposed in UP FRONT News for his 2005 "Camp Casey" hoax in Union Square in Manhattan, in which he attempted to precipitate the arrest of an unknowing Cindy Sheehan and in fact staged his own arrest, (which led to my arrest), a classic LaRouche ploy recurrently used by his pal the violent and psychopathic Geoffrey Blank, the deposed self-appointed dictator of the No Police State Coalitiion and the Saddam Hussein of Union Square. Other such Green crypto-fascists include the violent George Tatevosyan (who in April, 2004 physically assaulted me to prevent my attending a Ralph Nader news conference in Manhattan) and buddy Gerald Kann (twice a Long Island City, Queens resident and twice Green Party candidate for the City Council).

The LaRouche split-the-left-strategy was played out to politically lethal effect in 2000 when the Nader candidacy helped to elect Cheney/Bush. Nader is apparently a slow learner as he ran again in 2004 and 2008, each time drawing fewer votes. UP FRONT News, noting that the excremental Kann served as Nader's voice in New York, vigorously opposed Nader's candidacies.
LaRouche fifth columnists such as in particular Les ("Less") Jamieson took dictatorial control of the St. Mark's in-the-Bowery Church in Manhattan-based "9/11 Truth" group, co-led by a very dubious populism-spouting Episcopalian "pastor"-squatter named "Father" Frank Morales and threatened people such as myself who asked questions about La Rouche ties. One young "9/11 Truth" participant named Dan Wallace, who had witnessed Jamieson/Morales harassments of me, wound up prematurely dead in his bed in Queens a couple of weeks after he had done a video-interview with me. on the LaRouche/"9/11 Truth." Jamieson, also connected to a "Christian" cult calling itself Urantia, is as tightlipped about all this as Dick Cheney habitually is about just about anything.

LaRouche has been known to deal lethally with followers who go astray. Google "Jeremiah Duggan", who died suddenly in Europe not too long after separating from LaRouche's Schiller Institute.

The LaRouche infiltration gets little mention in the established media here. In fact the reality of the LaRouche infiltration is knowinglly suppressed in the mainstream media. LaRouche-ite Geoffrey Blank regularly got air-time on WBAI as well as recurrently fawning coverage in the Villager, a newspaper with a "populist" bent also known for some censorship (certainly in its coverage of the UP FRONT News-exposed and now thoroughly discredited Blank).

The absence of mainstream media coverage (although Florida-based Vyzygoth's "Grassy Knoll" and the California-based "Ministry of Truth" internet talk shows have had me on their programs) suggests to me that LaRouche (who survives by his "inside-outside" tactics that involve camouflage) in fact has his agents in the mainstream media who willfully slant and censor the news.

One of the most politically censored newspapers anywhere is the billionaire Donald Newhouse-owned Staten Island Advance, the corporate and political establishment-protecting
daily whose political editor is the dour Tom Wrobleski. I live in Staten Island and, as a journalist and political activist, I have been fighting Staten Island Advance political censorhip for several years. For example Wrobleski sat on the story of my candidacy for the U.S. Senate against Hillary Clinton for months until he had no choice other than to report it when he allowed the Advance to get scooped by Newsday on August 26, 2005.

Wrobleski is perhaps the only journalist anywhere to actually report a genocide (Tibet, because of my information) and then not follow it up. One reason he suppresses that heavy story is because he is in the business of protecting the entire political establishment in Staten Island, which is controlled by a Westchester County resident named Hillary Clinton. In fact Bill and Hillary Clinton are directly involved in the coverup of the Chinese Communist Genocide in Tibet. Indeed, while I was running as a write-in candidate for the U.S. Congress in 2008 Wrobleski told my campaign Communications Director Frank De Luca that he didn't "care" what I said about Tibet and Hillary Clinton. As I have said, Tom Wrobleski should be the bureau chief at the Staten Island Advance's hypothetical Beijing bureau.

One of the those running in the recent congressional race was Carmine Morano, the candidate of the Independence Party of New York. The IPNY was created some years ago by none other than Lenora Fulani, who set herself up as its dictator. Using her considerable camouflage and populist rhetorical skills and her appeal to "third party" sentiment among voters unhappy with the "choices" offered by the Democrats and Republicans, Fulani helped the IPNY become the third largest party in New York State. In that capacity she twice endorsed Michael Bloomberg, who would not have been elected mayor on 2001 had it not been for the votes he got on the IPNY ballot line.

Fulani got herself into big trouble with others in the IPNY and elsewhere because of her irrepressible distaste for Jewish people, which parallels that of her mentors, the Jewish
Newman and the non-Jewish LaRouche. Fulani is on record as describing the Jews en masse as "the murderers of people of color." Newman once labeled Jews as "the stormtroopers of decadent capitalism." Fulani's anti-Jewish outbursts got her disempowered somewhat in the IPNY but she remains an active member with her loyalists such as lawyer Harry Kresky in key official positions in the IPNY. After defending her comments for years, Fulani, aware that she was politically sinking in a city with lots of Jewish people, apologized - a very belated and I am certain insincere surface epiphany.

One of Fulani's long time political allies is IPNY official Sara Lyons, of Staten Island. I don't know if Ms. Lyons has ever met Lyndon LaRouche, who lives in Hitler-style near isolation with his wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche in a large estate in Loudoun County (Leesburg), Va.
As far as I am concerned, Fulani/Lyons & Co. are at the very least the voice (and perhaps money) of Lyndon LaRouche in Staten Island.

Tom Wrobleski has occasionally reported on the IPNY and indeed has mentioned the anti-Jewish rhetoric of Fulani. It's not easy to cover up a story reported by other media; indeed the New York Post has done some thorough coverage of the nefarious Fulani. (Wrobleski for years protected the machination-practicing Congressman Vito Fossella, some of whose corrupt behavior was reported in other New York media. In fact it was the Virginia police that broke the story of Fossella's May 1, 2008 DUI arrest and the fact of his adulterous child-producing affair with his lover in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. And now, if Fossella narcissistically fantasizes about a political comeback, Wrobleski is right there to report it.)

I have made Tom Wrobleski fully aware of the Fulani/LaRouche link and of its relationship to for example the Carmine Morano candidacy. Indeed I made it a campaign issue in an article at www.tomweissdforuscongress.blogspot.com. Not a syllable about that in the Staten Island Advance.

I don't know if media mogul Donald Newhouse or his employee Tom Wrobleski have ever met Lyndon LaRouche. But why are they protecting him?
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