found stuff

The tariff negotiations are not going well.

April 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM

kay 

draft draft draft

After Communist revolution. Lenin assured Russians the discomfort would be temporary, but his radical economic theory would make Russia great again. By 1930s after collective farming disappeared all the food, those who tried to report on the famine- read CofAblog https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/

After Communist revolution, Russians were assured the discomfort would be temporary, that the new radical economic theory would make Russia great again. By 1930s after all the food disappeared, those who tried to report on famine were shot or- CofAblog https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2025/04/usa-discomfort-will-be-temporary.html

Stock Market? Oh yeah that...

For the first time since it happened, I don't mind that I became poor in 1996. Then after a ten year lawsuit against the Chicago archdiocese as one of thousands of pedophile priest victims, my settlement check was twelve thousand dollars. when people I wrote about got six figures, most of them.

So past twenty years I've been navigating the poverty structures of California, luckily I got old enough to get Social Security. I don't just live from check to check but now, too crippled to continue even parttime work, that tiny check is all I've got.

If I'd gotten more from my lawsuit, I'd have bought stocks.

stock market today and it is only noon

So for the first time in my life, I don't mind being poor. I've gotten good at it after thirty years.

Oh what happened in 1996, there ain't no FDIC protection against a red headed woman. One moved in with my parents that year and a few months later. Dad was dead and the money was gone.

We all gotta learn to roll with the punches. 

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FrOman: Russian news / Новости России

@froman1912.bsky.social

So you're ignoring the fact that before the communist revolution in October, there was also a bourgeois revolution in February (less than a year before the Communists). You ignore the crop failures throughout the northern hemisphere and the problem that some "oppositionists" destroyed livestock and grain so that it would not get to the communists/workers/people. You're ignoring the fact that collectivization was forced first in order to cope with the impending famine, and it was borrowed from the time of the Russian Empire that is, they foresaw it back then and tried to fight the impending famine due to the First World War, but it was growing like a snowball, and climate problems and the revolution was added to the fire.

reply to blog post I wrote this AM

USA discomfort will be temporary,. Right

After Communist revolution in 1920s. Vladimir Lenin assured Russians their discomfort would be

OKAY

i didn't ignore it, just blog posts I write are usually short these days. I did track this down from Wikipedia-

By the end of the 19th century, Russia had expanded its control over the Caucasus, most of Central Asia and parts of Northeast Asia. Notwithstanding its extensive territorial gains and great power status, the empire entered the 20th century in a perilous state. The devastating Russian famine of 1891–1892 killed hundreds of thousands and led to popular discontent. As the last remaining absolute monarchy in Europe, the empire saw rapid political radicalization and the growing popularity of revolutionary ideas such as communism.[11] After the Russian Revolution of 1905, Nicholas II authorized the creation of a national parliament, the State Duma, although he still retained absolute political power. When Russia entered the First World War on the side of the Allies, it suffered a series of defeats that further galvanized the population against the emperor. In 1917, mass unrest among the population and mutinies in the army culminated in the February Revolution, which led to the abdication of Nicholas II, the formation of the Russian Provisional Government, and the proclamation of the first Russian Republic. Political dysfunction, continued involvement in the widely unpopular war, and widespread food shortages resulted in mass demonstrations against the government in July. The republic was overthrown in the October Revolution by the Bolsheviks, who proclaimed the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. During the resulting Russian Civil War, the Bolsheviks conducted the Red Terror. After emerging victorious, they established the Soviet Union across most of the Russian territory; Russia was one of four continental European empires to collapse as a result of World War I, along with Germany, Austria–Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.

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Newsmax goes public and CHEERS stock market opening today

 Newsmax CEO Ruddy Rings NYSE Opening Bell

By close of Business today Newsmax lost seventy percent of its value 

Newsmax Inc. CEO Christopher Ruddy, center, joined by a host of Newsmax personalities, rings the opening bell on the famed bell podium at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday. (Newsmax)

'You really know when inflation is out of control when you can't buy an election for $20 million. I mean' -Joy Behar on The View yesterday 

USA discomfort will be temporary,. Right

After Communist revolution of 1905, in 1920s. Vladimir Lenin assured Russians their discomfort would be temporary, that the radical economic theory of the Soviets would soon make Russia great again. By the 1930s after all the food disappeared, Russians and others who tried to report on the famine were shot or sent to gulags. Things happen much faster in the 21st century. Just saying…

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Greenland, the next Frontier

All Greenland's ice is going to melt soon, and it will be the new pioneer. Trump can't admit he knows global warming is real, so sends Vance out to lie about it, but like Gaza, this is all about real estate to Donny. I think

What was Donny doing while his 'security team' jabbered on Signal in all CAPS?

Trump was playing 18 holes that day instead of nine, 'winning' a tournament on one of his own courses, while his team jabbered on Signal, then he came in all sweaty and ran the attack on Yemen in his golf shorts. I THINK this is a big part of the story no one is following up, where was Donny during all this, Jon Stewart did a segment early last week BEFORE THE ATLANTIC STORY BROKE, just how funny it was that a president was all sweaty in golf clothes giving orders to bomb Yemen. wtf about 2 mins in here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8OFrDQkfjM&t=208s

The Canada MAGA Hat Make America Go Away

 FOR SALE NOW EVERYWHERE 

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watching in amazement, as the Trump years are great television, if nothing else

“Mark Twain hated bullies, he was suspicious of populism, jingoism, imperialism, the money-obsessed mania of the Gilded Age,” Conan O’Brien accepting the final Twain Prize

During his acceptance of the Mark Twain Prize, Conan O’Brien invoked the honor’s namesake. “First and foremost, Twain hated bullies,” he began, according to The Hill. “He punched up, not down, and he deeply, deeply empathized with the weak. Twain was suspicious of populism, jingoism, imperialism, the money-obsessed mania of the Gilded Age, and any expression of mindless American might or self-importance,” O’Brien continued, “Above all, Twain was a patriot in the best sense of the word. He loved America, but knew it was deeply flawed. Twain wrote, ‘Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time, and your government when it deserves it.’” After his remarks, O’Brien was joined by a band of dancing Twain impersonators, where he picked up the guitar to play a song alongside Adam Sandler: Neil Young’s 1989 hit,The ceremony will premiere on Sunday, May 4, exclusively on Netflix.

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The Best Trump Burns at Conan O’Brien’s Kennedy Center Celebration

“Rockin’ in the Free World.” The ceremony will premiere on Sunday, May 4, exclusively on Netflix. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/the-best-trump-burns-at-conan-obriens-kennedy-center-celebration#intcid=_vanity-fair-verso-hp-trending_45395ad4-44aa-4a26-86b4-1be66cc21d54_popular4-2

I'm living in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I see a neighbor haven’t seen for a while and they've turned; now they too are in a zombie trance repeating Donald Trump was sent by God destroy DEI. They're everywhere. They're everywhere. I stay silent in the shadows and hope they don’t realize I'm not one of them, because, man, I really do not feel safe surrounded by people who are brainwashed into a weird state of hatred, against people like me..

While I take time off, please read previous posts of note from City of Angels Blog past seven years. First on topic of TRUMP IS A TROJAN HORSE

https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/search?q=trojan+horse

Second topic, DISINFORMATION -

https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/search?q=DISINFORMATION

I'll be back soon =ke

Trump mass arrests are right out of 'Gulag Archipelago'; read excerpts here to see comparison of Stalin's Communism to MAGA's America now

Gulag prisoners

(The Trump coup keeps playing out like the 1917 Communist takeover of Russia, to me. So as USA imprisons more humans without due process**, I'm running another short excerpt from The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, continuing with Part One, The Prison Industry. As I read, I'm learning Donald Trump is a lot like Josef Stalin starting with these arrests, and threats of retribution for anyone critical of the President; plus AS's words are poetic and evocative, with subtle humor in the placement of a word, which makes his writing timeless. This series comparing Trump to Stalin through  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn continues at City of Angels Blog.)

A continuation of

Arrest, where the gulag begins 

TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2025

By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Some obscure ordinary Mortal, scared to death by epidemic arrests all around him and already depressed for a week by Sinister glances from his chief, is suddenly summoned to the local Party Committee where he is beamingly presented with a vacation ticket to a fancy sanatorium..

The rabbit is overwhelmed and immediately concludes that his fears were groundless. After expressing his gratitude, he hurries home triumphant to pack his suitcase; it is only 2 hours until train time, and he scolds his wife for being too slow.

He arrives at the station with time to spare and there in the waiting room or at the bar he is hailed by an extraordinarily Pleasant young man.

Don't you remember me? Pivanich Ivanich?

It is difficult remembering, well not exactly, you see-

The young man however is overflowing with friendly concern.

'Come now how can that be? I'll have to remind you.'

And he bowed respectfully to p's wife, 'you must forgive us. I'll keep him only one minute.'

The wife accedes and trustingly the husband lets himself be led away by the arm forever or for 10 years. 

They take you from a military hospital with a temperature of 102 as they did with ANS berstein; and the doctor will not raise a peep about your arrest. Just let him try.

They'll take you right off the operating table as they took NM VF, a school inspector, in 1936, in the middle of an operation for stomach ulcer, and drag you off to a cell as they did him half alive and all bloody, as konish recollects.

Or like Nadia levitskaya. You try to get information about your mother's sentence and they give it to you; but it turns out to be a confrontation and your own arrest in the gastronome, the fancy food store. You are invited to the special order department and arrested there.

Or you are arrested by a religious Pilgrim whom you have put up for the night for the sake of Christ. You are arrested by a meter man who has come to read your electric meter. You are arrested by a bicyclist who has run into you on the Street, by a railway conductor, a taxi driver, a savings bank teller, the manager of a movie theater. Any one of them can arrest you. 

END OF EXCERPT

**BACKGROUND**'

Trump’s America: Where Even U.S. Citizens Can Now Be Dragged Away Without a Trial

First, they came for the immigrants. Now, they’re coming for legal residents, tourists, and even citizens. Are you paying attention now?

THOM HARTMANN

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https://hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-america-where-even-us-citizens-616?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=3lzdw1&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

See previous and upcoming posts for more comparisons of Trump to Stalin, including 

This is what Stalinism looks like VIDEO

an ongoing theme here at City of Angels Blog by kay ebeling 

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This is what Stalinism looks like VIDEO

Deported. accused with no due process, members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua arrive in El Salvador yesterday

 

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Arrest, where the gulag begins

Solzhenitsyn

(Since the Trump coup reminds me of the Russian revolution under Josef Stalin, and since USA has started arresting and disappearing people**, today's blog post is a short excerpt from The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Part One "The Prison Industry")

Arrest

If you are arrested, can anything else remain unshattered by this Cataclysm?

There is where the gulag country begins  

Arrest

The most sophisticated and simpleton Among Us drawing on all life's experience can gasp out only, "Me? What for?"

Four white male hands unaccustomed to physical labor but nonetheless strong and tenacious grab us by the leg arm collar cap ear and drag Us in like a sack.

And the gate behind us, the gate to our past life, is slammed shut once and for all, that's all there is to it you are arrested.

And you'll find nothing better to respond with than a lamb-like bleat.

"Me? What for?"

For that's what Arrest is.

It's a blinding Flash and a blow which shifts the present instantly into the past and the impossible into omnipotent actuality, that's all.

And neither for the first hour nor for the first day will you be able to grasp anything else except that in your desperation, the fake circus moon will blink at you, it's a mistake, they'll set things right.

Arrest

The sharp nighttime ring or the rude knock at the door, the insolent entrance of the unwiped Jack Boots of the unsleeping State security operatives. The frightened and cowed conditions in which a human being can disappear into the void and even his closest relatives, his mother and his wife, do not know for years what has become of him.

The arrested person is torn from the warmth of his bed; he is in a daze half asleep helpless, and his judgment is befogged in a night arrest.

The State security men have a superiority in numbers. There are many of them, armed against one person, who hasn't even finished buttoning his trousers. 

END OF EXCERPT

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THIS IS STALINISM from Politico yesterday

Deported Brown University professor had ‘sympathetic photos’ of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, DOJ says— Federal authorities say they deported a Lebanese doctor holding an American visa last week after finding “sympathetic photos and videos” of prominent Hezbollah figures in a deleted items folder on her cell phone. Rasha Alawieh, a physician specializing in kidney transplants and professor at Brown University, also told Customs and Border Protection agents that while visiting Lebanon last month she attended the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and followed his teachings “from a religious perspective” but not a political one, according to an official report on her interrogation by an immigration officer. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/17/rasha-alawieh-deportation-026038 

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The Associated Press

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See previous and upcoming posts for more comparisons of Trump to Stalin, an ongoing theme here at City of Angels Blog. kay ebeling 

More to come from Solzhenitsyn as I am pretending his ghost has moved into my office... 

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