Mongoose: A Domestic Black Site in Chicago?

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Law Enforcement, Officers Call
Mongoose
Mongoose

Brian Jacob Church spent the better part of a day shackled inside Chicago's Homan Square, denied access to an attorney, before police finally sent him to be booked and charged. Lawyers say the facility is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.

• The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden ‘black site'

• Homan Square ‘black site': surveillance, military-style vehicles and a metal cage

Video from The Guardian below the fold.

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SchwartzReport: Treason at the Top — “National Security” Pork Over Education, Infrastructure, Family, and Everything Else

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, DoD, Government, Military, Officers Call
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

We have grossly inadequate funding for schools, infrastructure, elder care, child-care, and a host of other programs and projects that create a more compassionate and life-affirming society. But, boy, the dollars fall like a blizzard on the military industrial security industries. Here is the real truth of where you tax dollars are going. The sums are so large I think they are essentially incomprehensible to ordinary people.

America’s Real National Security Budget — A Trillion Dollars a Year

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SchwartzReport: Princeton: US Not A Democracy

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Government
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Well, I don't see how you could make it any plainer than this. I now have two grandsons — two years for one, one month for the other — and I wonder what kind of country, if they stay in this country, the United States will be when they grow to adulthood.  It seems very doubtful it will be the democratic republic of my youth, in substance whatever hollow forms may remain.

Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy

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SchwartzReport: USA More Jails Than Colleges

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Idiocy, Law Enforcement
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Here is the latest on the American Gulag Trend. This is one of the reasons we can no longer claim the moral highground, and every nation in the village of humanity knows this about us. Click on the line at the very beginning and it will take you to an interactive map of the U.S., where you can get the incarceration number for your county. It is quite revealing.

The U.S. has more jails than colleges. Here’s a map of where those prisoners live.

Owl: Will Elite Sacrifice Clinton (Pun Intended) to Focus Pedophilia Hunt on Him? – PBI Way Bigger than Monica Update 2

06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement, Officers Call
Who?  Who?
Who? Who?

To paraphrase a line from a famous American novel, “The rich are different from you and me. They are practicing pederasts.”

That's what I think of in reading the articles below of the pederast scandal involving billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and the very rich and powerful people who may have used his pedo pimping services, as seen in the articles below, may blow over (especially if Epstein is “suicided”) or expanded if more salacious details emerge. Too soon to say, but one could hope it will expand.

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SchwartzReport: Death of the American Dream & Other Pathologies

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Five readers sent me this article this morning and told me they felt it perfectly described their lives, and their sense of entrapment. I just hate this trend, but facts are facts.

Economist: I’ve crunched the numbers, and the American Dream is dead

“America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England or pre-industrial Sweden,” Clark said. “That’s the most difficult part of talking about social mobility, is because it is shattering people’s dreams.”

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