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No one talk to me.

I'm mourning a fictional character.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

February 16, 2021

Heather Cox Richardson

History was in the news today in three very different ways.

First up is the deep freeze in Texas, which overwhelmed the power grid and knocked out electricity for more than 3.5 million people, leaving them without heat. It has taken the lives of at least 23 people.

Most of Texas is on its own power grid, a decision made in the 1930s to keep it clear of federal regulation. This means both that it avoids federal regulation and that it cannot import more electricity during periods of high demand. Apparently, as temperatures began to drop, people turned up electric heaters and needed more power than engineers had been told to design for, just as the ice shut down gas-fired plants and wind turbines froze. Demand for natural gas spiked and created a shortage.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) told Sean Hannity that the disaster “shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal” for the United States, but Dan Woodfin, a senior director for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the organization in charge of the state’s power grid, told Bloomberg that the frozen wind turbines were the smallest factor in the crisis. They supply only about 10% of the state’s power in the winter.

Frozen instruments at gas, coal, and nuclear plants, as well as shortages of natural gas, were the major culprits. To keep electricity prices low, ERCOT had not prepared for such a crisis. El Paso, which is not part of ERCOT but is instead linked to a larger grid that includes other states and thus is regulated, did, in fact, weatherize their equipment. Its customers lost power only briefly.

With climate change expected to intensify extremes of weather, the crisis in Texas indicates that our infrastructure will need to be reinforced to meet conditions it was not designed for.

Second, there was an interesting development today with regard to the January 6 insurrection. Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), in his personal capacity, not as a member of Congress, sued Donald Trump—in his personal capacity—Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani; Proud Boys International, LLC; and Oath Keepers. The lawsuit is backed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and argues that these four people or entities each “intended to prevent, and ultimately delayed, members of Congress from discharging their duty commanded by the United States Constitution to approve the results of the Electoral College in order to elect the next President and Vice President of the United States.”

That language is significant. While the lawsuit lays out in detail the actions of the former president and Giuliani and the domestic terrorists in the lead-up to January 6, as well as the events of that day (making its 32 pages an excellent synopsis of the material the House impeachment managers laid out in the Senate trial), Thompson is making a very specific claim.

Thompson accuses the four defendants of “conspiring to prevent him and other Members of Congress from discharging… official duties.” This puts them afoul of the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, designed to break that deadly organization in the years after the Civil War when its members were intimidating and assaulting Black and white Republicans in the South. The law makes anyone who has “conspire[d] to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from… discharging any duties [of an officer of the United States]” “liable to the party injured.”

Thompson points out that he is 72, within the age group hardest hit by the coronavirus, and the lockdown precautions put his health at risk. This speaks to the part of the law that calls out perpetrators who “injure [an officer] in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof… so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties.”

The law allows a successful plaintiff to claim money not only to make up for the damages the perpetrators caused, but also to punish the perpetrators and to try to warn others against trying anything similar. And that is what Thompson has asked for.

Thompson appears to be trying to defang the insurrectionists by going after their bank accounts. Bleeding white supremacist gangs dry through lawsuits has proved surprisingly effective in the past. In 1999, a lawsuit bankrupted the Idaho Aryan Nations white supremacists; in 2008, the Southern Poverty Law Center sued a Ku Klux Klan group in Kentucky and won a $2.5 million settlement. Going after Trump, Giuliani, and the organizations central to the January 6 insurrection by taking their money would likely make insurrectionists think twice before they tried such a thing again.

Third, President Joe Biden held a televised town hall tonight to sell the idea of his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. He answered in detail questions about domestic insurrection, the minimum wage, white supremacy, coronavirus, and vaccines. But what stood out was an exchange between the president and the mother of a young man with health issues who cannot get on a list in Wisconsin to get the coronavirus vaccine. Biden told the woman that he could make recommendations to the states, but the order in which they chose to administer the vaccine was up to them.

“But here’s what I’d like to do,” he continued. ”If you’re willing, I’ll stay around after this is over and maybe we can talk a few minutes and see if I can get you some help.”

This is a powerful echo of an exchange President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had with a Black Mississippi farmer, Sylvester Harris, in 1934. In the depths of the Great Depression, Harris was about to lose his cotton farm because he couldn’t make the mortgage payments. In desperation, he traveled a dozen miles into town, picked up a telephone, and called the White House. News stories told readers that Harris had reached FDR, who had promised to stop the impending foreclosure of Harris’s mortgage, and within days, the bank gave him an extension.

In the exchange, Americans saw a president who cared, and a government that finally, after its previous leaders had told them to get out of a terrible catastrophe on their own, responded to their needs.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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The CCC and its Lasting Effect on Environmental Awareness

During the New Deal era, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was forced to start a series of work programs in an attempt to try and revitalize the American economy. The first of these programs was established with the passing of the Emergency Work Act in March of 1933. This program was created to recruit thousands of young men to work in forests, parks, lands and bodies of water in order to further develop the conservation and use of natural resources. The program later became known as the “Civilian Conservation Corps” and was an important step in not only reviving a failure of the economy, but also a failure of an environmental awareness. The goal of the CCC was to conserve the natural beauty of the United States landscape, and to make sure that beauty would continue for years to come. By July 1st, 1933, there were 1433 established camps all around the country housing over 300,000 working young men, usually unmarried. Because most of this conservation work was being done in the western United States, the military was heavily involved in moving large amounts of workers who lived in eastern cities. This movement became the most rapid peacetime mobilization of U.S. forces in American history, and provided a large portion of unskilled and unemployed male workers between 18 to 25 with a source of steady income. Many of these men came from families that were entrenched in poverty, and was often their only method of providing any monetary stability to their respective household. 

In the first picture shown here (Image 1), a group of young men took a break from work in Cook County to take a photograph. This is a very diverse group of people, and shows how the CCC stretched its influence all over the country in an effort to recruit a work force of young men. These men abandoned their homes in search of work, and they all don’t look too thrilled about doing so. But, at this time, they will take what they can get. The workers of the CCC had a variety of different objectives that made up the bulk of their job. These consisted of, but were not limited to the following: planting trees, clearing and maintaining access roads, fighting forest fires, re-seeding grazing lands and implementing soil-erosion controls, building wildlife refuges, fish-rearing facilities, water storage units, and animal shelters. They also built bridges and campground facilities in an effort to increase the interest in tourism around America and entice people to go out and enjoy America’s natural beauty. Each of these workers received $30 per month for their service, in addition to the room and board received at the conservation camp. They were required to send $22-$25 back home to their families to ensure that not only that these families would get the resources required to support them, but also that the money earned out West would be spent back East where it could be recycled back into the economy and help support struggling businesses. 

The second picture (Image 2) shows men in forest fire training in Washington. This picture clearly shows the state that the people who joined the CCC were in, with raggedy clothes and not much else. However, these people were making a larger environmental impact than they ever could have thought. This picture also does a good job of illustrating the term that referred to the workers of the CCC, known as FDR’s “Tree Army”. It shows the type of camp and the large amount of men that were staying in these camps, which could be confused for an army camp if not for the wooden axes. The implementation and expansion of the CCC marked one of the first times in American history where environmental awareness became a priority of the federal government. This was in response to one of the underlying causes of the Great Depression: The Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was a series of dust storms in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s that were caused by extreme soil erosion from over-farming, droughts, and wind erosion. These storms darkened cities, buried homes and farms, killed livestock, and posed a serious health-risk to people who lived in the mid-western states at this time. Usually, people refer to the stock market crash of 1929 as the main cause of the Great Depression, but the Dust Bowl played just as much of an integral role in causing the destruction of the U.S. economy as the crash did.  Millions of acres of land were rendered useless, 500,000 people lost their homes, and hundreds of thousands of more people were forced off the lands they cultivated to make a living. Between 1932 and 1940, it is estimated that nearly 2.5 million people needed to abandon the plains and farmlands that they called home in order to look for work elsewhere. Not only did this destruction and migration have a severe effect on the portion of the economy that was supported by these agrarian states, but also limited the food supply and natural resources that these states provided. Due to a lack of foresight, and the inability of these farmers to recycle the nutrients in their soil, a large portion of United States land was environmentally destroyed.

The next picture (Image 3) shown here is a form of propaganda, trying to convince people to join the CCC. The picture shows a shirtless man, in good shape, holding an ax with the words Civilian Conservation Corps behind him. This was most likely put out by the American government as a poster or advertisement, trying to show the importance and abundance of the work that was being done by these men. The CCC required one of the largest work forces of any non-military government program in American history, so it was necessary to try and devise tactics to get people to join. President FDR, having experience as the governor of New York and as an amateur farmer, recognized the root problem of environmental degradation as a lack of soil conservation and sought to eliminate these causes to prevent future disasters. This is why one of the most prominent objectives of the CCC was to plant as many trees as possible with as many workers as possible. Because the natural landscape of these mid-western states is flat plains, giant dust storms were easily able to gain traction from wind and travel for miles across these plains, wreaking havoc. Not only did planting trees in this area revitalize the soil, but also created a wind barrier for the farming lands that stretched for miles. By the time the CCC program was ended at the start of WWII, more than 3.5 billion trees had been planted on land that had been made barren by natural erosion, forest fires, or deforestation. These efforts by the CCC account for about half of the reforestation done in this country’s history, including both publicly and privately funded programs. 

The next picture (Image 4) shows Camp No. 1, aka Camp Roosevelt, which was the first CCC camp to come to fruition. The men in this picture were probably one of the first couple thousand to join the program. In the background, one can see dead trees and low-quality soil, exemplifying the work that needed to be done to revive the United States landscape and preserve it for the future. The establishment of the CCC brought a new concept to the minds of Americans: how should we provide the efforts to conserve and expand the abundant natural resources of this country for future generations to enjoy? Before this, many American citizens never considered the long-lasting environmental effects of their actions. Although many of these people were not concerning themselves about the environment during the worst period of poverty in American history, it set a precedent for future generations to follow. And even thought it lost its funding due to WWII, the legacy of the CCC still lived on beyond that. Without the actions of the CCC, who knows the negative environmental effects we would be experiencing today. With rapid environmental deficiencies already obviously visible throughout America, it may be time to look back on the values that were established by FDR and the creation of the CCC, and think about how the environment will be for future generations of Americans. 

 In order to truly understand the Great Depression and the people involved, one must analyze primary sources from that time period. The pictures represent different aspects of the CCC, but help tell the true story of what it actually was.  The last picture (Image 5) is another advertisement, one used on our class blog on word press. This was an advertisement once again targeting young men, showing a man with an ax with the CCC behind him. Just another example of the US government using tactics in order to get as many people to join as possible. Without this, who knows what state our environment would be in today.

Hyperlinks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpv-KYioIFc

https://www.nps.gov/media/video/view.htm?id=2C1D38FE-155D-451F-676BFDA5021C9830&utm_source=video&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=experience_more

http://www.history.com/topics/civilian-conservation-corps

http://www.ccclegacy.org/Camp_Roosevelt_68B9.php

http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dcr/get-involved/civilian-conservation-corps-ccc/

http://rooseveltinstitute.org/fdr-and-new-deal-response-environmental-catastrophe/

Kyle Hill

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Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, NY, United States

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Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, Hyde Park, NY, United States

The Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site preserves the Springwood estate in Hyde Park, New York. Springwood was the birthplace, lifelong home, and burial place of the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The National Historic Site was established in 1945. "All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River" This quote captures Franklin D. Roosevelt's connection to Springwood, the estate that he loved & the place he considered home. The first US Presidential Library was started by Franklin D. Roosevelt here. Few figures in American public life have been so closely identified with a particular place as President Franklin D. Roosevelt with his home in Hyde Park, New York. FDR was born here in 1882 and remained closely connected to the place for his entire life. The property, located in the historic Hudson Valley, was home and political headquarters, a haven for spiritual renewal, and, after he was stricken with polio, a place for physical rehabilitation. At Hyde Park, he participated in community life, welcomed dignitaries, and conducted the work of the presidency. In 1697, the English Crown gave a 220 square miles (570 km2) land grant (the "Great Nine Partners Patent") to a group of nine businessmen from New York City. The land extended from the Hudson River on the west to the border with Connecticut on the East. To ensure equal access to the river for all partners, the land on the shore of the river was divided into nine "Water Lots", one of which Springwood was located on and was granted to William Creed, one of the nine partners. While the early history of the house on the Springwood estate remains unclear, it is believed that the central portion of the present day house is formed by a large farmhouse which was constructed around the year 1800 in the Federal style. In 1845, the estate was purchased by Josiah Wheeler, a merchant from New York City. Wheeler undertook a remodeling of the house, giving it a then fashionable Italianate style with a three-story tower at the south end as well as front and rear piazzas spanning the entire length of the house. After this remodeling, the house comprised a total of 15 rooms. In 1866, the estate which had been reduced to approximately one square mile (2.5 square kilometers), was bought by James Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt's father, for US$ 40,000, at a time when a textile worker's earnings were less than a dollar a day. The property featured a stable and horse track, which was important to James because he took great interest in horse breeding. From the date of purchase until his death 34 years later in 1900, James made many improvements of the house and property. He enlarged the servants' wing of the building, adding two rooms, and had a spacious carriage house built in the vicinity. In 1882, Franklin was born in what was then the second floor tower bedroom at the south end of the house. At the time, it functioned as the master bedroom; the bedroom which he, and later his sons, used during boyhood is nearby on the same floor. In 1905, after he and Eleanor Roosevelt married, the young couple moved in with his mother. The estate remained the center of Roosevelt's life in all stages of his career. In 1915, Franklin D. Roosevelt, together with his mother Sara, undertook a final major enlargement and remodeling of the home. This was done in order to accommodate his growing family, but also to create an environment for entertaining his political associates which fitted his ambitions. Roosevelt contributed many ideas for the new design, but since the building work was paid for by his mother Sara, she had to find compromises which also took the financial aspect into account. She commissioned the design work from the firm of Hoppin & Koen, of New York City. The size of the house was more than doubled by adding two large fieldstone wings (designed by Roosevelt), a tower, and a third story with a flat roof. The clapboard exterior of the house was replaced with stucco and most of the porch was replaced with a fieldstone terrace with a balustrade and a small columned portico around the entrance. These alterations gave the exterior of the house the look of a mansion in the Colonial Revival Style. The interior, while retaining much of the layout of the old family home, was redesigned primarily with the aim of housing Roosevelt's growing collections of books, paintings, stamps, and coins. The remodeling work was finished within one year in 1916. Roosevelt also changed the appearance of the surrounding land by extensive planting of trees. Between 1911, when the large scale planting started and Roosevelt's death in 1945, more than 400,000 trees were planted on the estate. Eventually, large portions of the estate were turned into an experimental forestry station under an agreement with the Forestry Department of the Syracuse University. During his presidency from March 4, 1933 until his death on April 12, 1945, Franklin made almost 200 visits to Springwood, although he eventually built Top Cottage nearby as a home of his own, separate from his mother's. The main estate functioned as a "Summer White House" where the President hosted his political associates as well as other prominent national and international figures. In June 1939, when King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King as minister in attendance, made the first visit of a reigning Canadian monarch to the United States, they were hosted at Springwood. Other guests included Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, as well as European royalty such as Queen Wilhelmina, Princess Juliana, and Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands, and Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess Märtha of Norway. Further, Roosevelt used the estate as a retreat for himself and his political associates on the eves of three of the four[clarification needed] elections in which he ran for president. When the incoming results indicated that he had won the election, he would go outside onto the front terrace to deliver his victory speech. Roosevelt made his last visit to Springwood in the last week of March 1945, about two weeks before his death. At his own wish, he was buried near the sundial in the Rose Garden on April 15, 1945. His wife was buried at his side after her death in 1962. Also buried here are Fala, the famous scottish terrier, and Chief, a German Shepherd also owned by FDR. In 1943, Roosevelt donated the estate to the American people under the condition that his family maintained a lifetime right to usage of the property. On November 21, 1945, after the family had relinquished their rights, the estate was transferred to the U.S. Department of the Interior. Since then, the estate has been administered by the National Park Service as a National Historic Site and is open to the public. In 2005, the site covered a total area of more than 3 square kilometers and received 108,611 visitors. Rooms: Entrance Hall: The walls of the entrance hall are mostly covered with pieces from Roosevelt's collection of paintings. On display are mainly naval paintings as well as some historical cartoons. Specimens from his boyhood collection of birds are also on display as well as a sculpture of him when he was 29. In the corner behind the main staircase is a manually operated trunk elevator, which the disabled president used to move between floors. Living room and library: This room was the place where Roosevelt worked on his private collections; he accumulated a personal library of approximately 14,000 volumes, over 2,000 naval paintings, prints, and lithographs, over 300 bird specimens, over 200 ship models, 1.2 million stamps, as well as thousands of coins, banknotes, campaign buttons, and medallions. Music room: The music room (also known as the "Dresden Room" for the origin of some of the porcelain) is a formal parlor which contains many Chinese pieces of porcelain and lacquerware. These were acquired when the family of Roosevelt's mother stayed in China, where her father made a fortune in the China trade. Together with the adjacent dining room, this part of the house was the setting for the formal entertaining of guests. A collection of autographed photographs of some of the Roosevelts' more famous guests is kept in the room on the piano. Bedrooms of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt: During the enlargement of the house in 1915, a suite of rooms was created for Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt in one of the new wings. Originally, these rooms included a sitting room and two dressing rooms, but after Roosevelt contracted polio in 1921, one of the dressing rooms was converted into a separate bedroom for his wife Eleanor and the sitting room into a bedroom for his mother Sara. The "Snuggery": This room was used by Roosevelt's mother, Sara, for beginning her day and conducting her business of running the household. The room was created in its present form during the extensive remodeling of 1915 by a division of the old South Parlor into a gallery and the Snuggery. Because most of the furniture of the old parlor was retained despite the reduction in size, the Snuggery has a cluttered appearance. Vision: Conservation and preservation often go hand in hand. FDR protected many unique areas across the country. When created in 1916, the National Park Service focused primarily on the conservation of spectacular landscapes, mostly in the West, and prehistoric native sites. FDR expanded the National Park Service mission in 1933 to include not only parks and monuments but also national cemeteries, national memorials, and national military parks. He also added the parks in Washington, D.C. The reorganization paved the way for inclusion of historic sites such as the Vanderbilt Mansion and FDR's own home, which he made part of the national park system in 1939 and 1943. With sweeping legislation, FDR was responsible for adding over one-quarter of the 411 areas in today's National Park Service system. Equally important, the 1933 reorganization introduced new regions of the country to the National Park Service. FDR diversified the definition of national treasures. As he saw it, history, culture, and nature all played roles in the exceptional saga and unfolding legacy of the United States. "There is nothing so American," he said, "as our national parks." Legacy: Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs, combined with his enthusiasm for conservation, laid a firm foundation for protecting the nation's natural bounty. The extent of the conservation projects carried on during the New Deal was far more reaching than anything attempted before. Soil erosion control, water conservation, the preservation of wildlife, and other environmental protection activities became a part of the everyday life and activities of American citizens. The importance of the work was new and inspiring. Under his leadership, FDR's programs introduced new concepts on a national level in planning for the responsible use of our natural and historic resources.

#United States

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Common class of drugs linked to increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease

A team of scientists, led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, report that a class of drugs used for a broad array of conditions, from allergies and colds to hypertension and urinary incontinence, may be associated with an increased risk of cognitive decline, particularly in older adults at greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

The findings were published in the September 2, 2020 online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Anticholinergic drugs are widely used for dozens of conditions, minor and major. Some of these medications require a prescription, while others can be purchased over the counter. They work by blocking acetylcholine — a type of neurotransmitter or chemical messenger known to be critical for memory function — from binding to receptors on certain nerve cells. The effect is to inhibit parasympathetic nerve impulses, which are involved in a variety of involuntary muscle movements, such as those in the gastrointestinal tract and lungs, and bodily functions like salivation, digestion and urination.

Researchers reported that cognitively normal study participants who were taking at least one anticholinergic drug at baseline were 47 percent more likely to develop mild cognitive impairment (MCI), often a precursor to dementia such as AD, while being tracked over a period of up to a decade compared to participants who did not take such drugs.

“This study, led by Alexandra Weigand, suggests that reducing anticholinergic drug use before cognitive problems appear may be important for preventing future negative effects on memory and thinking skills, especially for people at greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease,” said senior author Lisa Delano-Wood, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Weigand is a graduate student in the San Diego State University/University of California San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology.

Six hundred and eighty-eight adults were involved in the study, evenly divided by sex with an average age of 74. None of the participants displayed cognitive or memory problems at the beginning of the study. Each reported whether they were taking anticholinergic drugs. One-third were taking such medications, with an average of 4.7 anticholinergic drugs per person. Participants were given annual comprehensive cognitive tests for up to 10 years.

The scientists also looked at whether participants had biomarkers for AD in their cerebrospinal fluid, such as certain types of proteins, or a well-known genetic risk factor for AD. They found that participants with AD biomarkers who were taking anticholinergic drugs were four times more likely to develop MCI than persons lacking biomarkers and not taking the drugs.

Similarly, persons at genetic risk for AD who took anticholinergic drugs were approximately 2.5 times more likely to develop MCI than those without genetic risk factors and who were not taking the drugs.

“We believe this interaction between anticholinergic drugs and Alzheimer’s risk biomarkers acts in a ‘double hit’ manner,” said Weigand, the study’s first author. “In the first hit, Alzheimer’s biomarkers indicate that pathology has started to accumulate in and degenerate a small region called the basal forebrain that produces the chemical acetylcholine, which promotes thinking and memory. In the second hit, anticholinergic drugs further deplete the brain’s store of acetylcholine. This combined effect most significantly impacts a person’s thinking and memory.”

Study authors noted that, although older persons metabolize anticholinergic drugs differently than younger people, anticholinergic medications were being taken at levels much higher than the lowest effective dose recommended for older adults, with 57 percent taken at twice the recommended dosage and 18 percent at least four times the recommended dosage.

“This points to a potential area for improvement since reducing anticholinergic drug dosages may possibly delay cognitive decline,” said Weigand. “It’s important for older adults who take anticholinergic medications to regularly consult with their doctors and discuss medication use and dosages.”

Delano-Wood noted that more work is needed to examine brain and cognitive effects of anticholinergic medications and whether these medications accelerate age-related cognitive changes or directly lead to neurodegenerative disorders, such as AD. “Clinical ‘deprescribing’ studies are currently underway at certain research sites across the nation in an effort to investigate whether reducing or stopping use of these drugs does, in fact, lead to reductions in progressive cognitive impairment,” Delano-Wood said.

source https://scienceblog.com/518339/common-class-of-drugs-linked-to-increased-risk-of-alzheimers-disease/

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Editor’s Note:  The following article was featured as the afterward in the book, WAR, WAR, WAR! by Cinncinatus.  This is an excellent book on the America First movement, Jewish intrigue, and the Roosevelt administration’s responsibility for bringing the U.S. into World War II.  The book was published BEFORE the official U.S. entry into war, and the author predicted that if Roosevelt won the presidency in 1940, war would be inevitable.  There is also a very good introduction by Eustace Mullins in the 1984 Son’s of Liberty published version.

By:  William Anderson

In the years before World War II, the American public had no desire to go to war in either Europe or Asia. We, as Americans, had no interest in warring with Germany, Italy or Japan. Yet America was forced to battle the Axis Powers for four long years at the sole behest of International Jewry.

In fact, World Jewry commenced its war against Germany in 1933, the year Hitler came to power, even before he had time to begin implementing a program for pulling Germany out of its own economic depression.

Jewry’s declaration of a “holy war” against Germany was issued by Samuel Untermeyer of the World Jewish Federation who said in the New York “Times” of 7 Aug. 1933 that it would be means of an “economic boycott that will undermine the Hitler regime and bring the German people to their senses by destroying their export trade on which their very existence depends.”

Furthermore, the Toronto “Evening Telegram” of 26 Feb. 1940 quotes Rabbi Maurice L. Perlzweig of the World Jewish Congress as telling a Canadian audience that “the World Jewish Congress has been at war with Germany for seven years” (i.e. 1933).

Jews were obviously willing to back up their threats, for the London “Sunday Chronicle” of 2 Jan. 1938 reported that “leaders of International Jewry” had met in Geneva, Switzerland to set up a $2.5 BILLION fund to undermine the economic stability of Germany.

However, Jewish boycotts against Germany failed to bring that nation to its knees as Hitler had already freed Germany from dependence on Jewish usury. Since economic pressure by World Jewry could not break the back of Germany, it was determined that an actual war would be necessary to destroy Hitler.

This desire to decimate Germany is understandable when one recognizes that Jews are a parasitic race and as parasites will fight to the death when the host attempts to expell them.

The Jewish desire for war was admitted to by Rabbi Felix Mendelsohn in the Chicago “Sentinel” of 8 Oct. 1942 where he states: “The Second World War is being fought for the defense of the fundamentals of Judaism.” Thus, Rabbi Mendelsohn flatly expresses the view that WWII was a Jewish war.

This Jewish scheme came to fruitation in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Britain and France, under Jewish domination, then declared war on Germany, conveniently ignoring the fact that the Soviet Union (under Jewish rule) had also invaded Poland.

As proof, James Forrestal, later to become Secretary of Defense, in his diary of 27 Dec. 1945 notes that he played golf with Joseph Kennedy, FDR’s ambassador to Britain, who told him that ex-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain “stated that America and the world Jews had forced England into war.” For his candor and later opposition to the bandit state of Israel, Forrestal was murdered in 1949 (ruled a “suicide”).

Jews throughout the world screamed that Germany was intent on ruling the world, but Gen. George C. Marshall admitted after the war, in testimony before Congress, that no proof could be found that Hitler planned any conquest of the world.

In fact, Hitler’s actions against Czechoslovakia over the Sudentenland and Poland over Danzig were just part of Hitler’s long stated desire to re-acquire the territory taken from Germany after WWI in the Treaty of Versailles.

While stones are being cast, it should be recalled that after Germany took back the Sudentenland from Czechoslovakia, Poland seized the territory of Teschen from the Czechs which it had no claims toward.

So, after the Jews had ignited a war in Europe, it was found to be necessary to draw America into that war as France had fallen and Britain tottered on the brink of defeat.

To bring the U.S. into this Jewish war, International Jewry had the services of a master at corrupt politics — the one and only Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Interestingly enough, Col. Curtis Dall who was once FDR’s son-in-law accused Roosevelt of being partly Jewish. In any event, Roosevelt was surrounded by plenty of Jew advisors such as Bernard Baruch, S. I. Rosenman, Sidney Weinburg, Sidney Hillman and Felix Frankfurter.

For the first time, Jewry had a President who was totally subservient to them and they spared no effort to keep him in office. For example, when it appeared that Sen. Huey Long would defeat Roosevelt for the 1939 Democratic nomination, he was assassinated by Dr. Carl Weiss, a Jew.

Nevertheless, American public opinion was overwhelmingly op- posed to any involvement in WWII. Americans realized that they had been duped into WWII and were not interested in losing the lives of loved ones in a war that offered no benefits to the U.S. In effect, Americans were heeding the advice of George Washington in his “Farewell Address” where he warned that Americans must not become involved in intangling alliances with foreign nations.

Those patriots who followed Washington’s sound advice were disparagingly referred to as “isolationists,” but they were, in actuality, neutralists. Thus Congress, acting on the will of the people, passed the Neutrality Act of 1935 which embargoed any U.S. arms from being sent to a warring nation.

About three years later, in 1938, Rep. Louis Ludlow of Indiana introduced a resolution requiring a public vote of support of any declaration of war by Congress. Roosevelt and the Jews knew this measure could easily destroy their efforts, so an all out attack on the resolution was launched. As a result, the Ludlow bill was narrowly defeated.

The Jews had good reason to block the resolution for the American Institute for Public Opinion (AIPO) released at that time a poll showing 83% of the citizens opposed to U.S. intervention in an European war.

Moreover, in April 1939, during the height of war fever, a whopping 95% opposed American entry into a war against Germany. That’s right, virtually every citizen was soundly against the U.S. involving itself in a foreign war. As a result, Congress strengthened the Neutrality Act by barring commerce and travel, as well as arms, to any belligerent power.

At this point, the Jews began to show signs of desperation, but these wily manipulators of world events still had a few tricks up their collective sleeve. So, in 1939 an immense propaganda campaign, the likes of which had never before been seen, was launched. No stone was left unturned in Jewry’s assault on the minds of the American people.

One was bombarded with the most outlandish lies about Hitler and Germany from all sides — in newspapers, magazines, books, radio and motion pictures. FDR also unleashed the powerful, persuasive techniques of the federal government in the blitz to “hate Germany.”

To get an idea of just how far this propaganda attack went, one should note that Jew Theodore Kaufman wrote a book entitled “Germany Must Perish,” which outlined a plan to exterminate Germans by sterilizing 48 million of them. Believe it or not, this call for genocide by a Jew was well received in many influential circles.

Conversely, Germany never carried out a “holocaust” against the Jews, but after the war was accused of doing so any way. This “holocaust” hoax trumped up by Jewry has been used since WWII to divert attention from their own machinations to plunge America into the maelstrom of yet another war.

The Jew orchestrated assault of hate against Germany was successful in cowering Congress into lifting the arms embargo and allowed the free flow of weapons to Britain and later to the Soviet Union. This action made U.S. ships carrying the arms fair targets for German subs; but no attacks occurred, which is certainly odd behavior for a “mad- man” (Hitler) bent on “world rule.”

While Congress succumbed to the barrage of hate propaganda, the public remained totally against the war. For instance, in Oct. 1940 about 83% polled were opposed to U.S. involvement. In April 1941, it was 85% against and in July 1941, opposition was pegged at a healthy 79%. Not surprisingly, the pollsters quit asking the question at this point, as FDR and Jewry had all but gotten war officially declared.

By 1940, Roosevelt had rammed through Congress a draft and conscription although polls indicated at least 50% of the public was against such a move. By now it should be perfectly obvious that World Jewry had begun planning for U.S. entry into the war at least three years before Pearl Harbor, despite overwhelming opposition.

Speaking of Pearl Harbor, it is important to understand the complete facts surrounding the “surprise attack.” While 95% of all respondents were opposed to war in 1939, about 90% indicated they were willing to fight if directly attacked. Operating on this information, Jewry did everything possible to goad either Germany or Italy into at- tacking America. However, the bait was refused as Hitler was attempting at that time to negotiate a peace with England, which was flatly rejected by the Jew lackey Churchill.

Thus Jewry’s attention turned toward Japan, which had a mutual defense pact with Germany and Italy. Japan had been engaged in a war with China which FDR and the Jews tried to use as an excuse for American intervention, even though the events in Asia were of no concern to America.

Jewish, not American, interests however were what concerned Roosevelt and in July 1941, he froze Japanese assets in the U.S. and embargoed trade. This was reason enough to declare war, but Japan humbly proposed to sit down and negotiate U.S. -Japanese differences. Instead of accepting the offer, FDR insulted Japanese Ambassador Nomura and refused to meet with Prime Minister Konoye.

As a result, Konoye and his “peace party” were replaced by Gen. Tojo and his “war party,” yet Japan continued to make peace overtures only to have them all flatly rejected. Finally, on 26 Nov. 1941, Roosevelt sent an ultimatum to Japan which amounted to a virtual declaration of war. This ultimatum, according to Prof. Harry Elmer Barnes, was actually drafted by Jew Harry Dexter White (Weiss) in collaboration with Jew Treasury Secretary Harry Morgenthau.

It was this ultimatum, penned by two Jews, that forced Japan to at- tack or else “lose face,” which in Oriental thinking is a fate worse than death. The final, sorry episode of this disgusting chain of events is that Washington knew of the impending attack on Pearl Harbor at least 12 hours before the blow fell, but refused to warn military officers there.

The U.S. had been forewarned since the Japanese message code had been broken and America was thus able to monitor Japanese

dispatches. No word was sent to Pearl Harbor by FDR and the Jews as the messages revealed that the attack should be called off if it appeared that the Americans were prepared.

So International Jewry by going through the “back door” had successfully ensnared America into WWII; a war that would cost millions of lives and billions of dollars. The bottom line of the war would be a world under the total subjugation of Jewry through its twin arms of Communism and Zionism.

These facts have been covered up and ignored in the mass media, but Charles Lindbergh, for one, recognized where the finger of proof pointed. In his “Wartime Journals,” he states that “the Jews, the Roosevelt administration, and British sympathizers combined to en- courage the U.S. to enter World War II.”

Lindbergh and other patriots sought to stop Jewry’s war plans by setting up the America First Committee. The committee found widespread support, but could not overcome the billions spent by Jews to brainwash the public into accepting war after Pearl Harbor.

And it is Jewry which best recognizes why the U.S. entered WWII. “The American Hebrew,” in an editorial of 24 July 1942, declared that “whenever an American or a Filipino fell at Bataan or Corregidor or at any other of the now historic spots where MacArthur’s men put up their remarkable fight, their survivors could have said with truth: the real reason that boy went to his death was because Hitler’s anti-semitic movement succeeded in Germany.”

The above quotation from a Jew newspaper is an admission that the U.S. entered WWII only at the behest of World Jewry — a war Jewry declared all the way back in 1933! Of course, this admission was intended only for consumption by a Jewish audience to keep them in the know, which tends to make it all the more revealing.

Any American involvement in a foreign conflict should be judged as to whether it is in the best interest of the American nation; yet the U.S. entered WWII because it was in the best interest of International Jewry.

Thus, the Jews forced the U.S. into war against the public’s will in 1941 and the $64 million question is will it happen again? Events are already pointing towards a build-up of war hysteria. Without a doubt, Jewry is leading America by the nose towards war in the Middle East on behalf of the bandit state of Israel.

Will we learn from the lessons of the past or will we once again find ourselves forced into war for the benefit of World Jewry?

[keywestlou]

WHAT A GAME!

College basketball at its finest! Syracuse/Georgetown. Titans of the Big East. Games played at the Carrier Dome, Georgetown Campus, Madison Square Garden, and where ever Final Four matches were played.

Each game hard fought! Most close. 

Neither side liked the other. Enemies. Even the coaches Jim Boeheim and Jim Thompson. They never talked. Ignored each other. The animosity ran deep.

Boeheim now in his 43rd year coaching at Syracuse. Thompson long retired. They met a couple of years after Thompson’s retirement at some event. They talked. Could not understand why they never became friends. Today, the best of friends.

Syracuse has left the Big East. Now part of the ACC. The two schools met yesterday in an out of league game. What a game! Just like days of old!

The last 5 minutes especially. Wow! Game close. Baskets exchanged. 10.6 seconds left. Syracuse down 1 point. Battle took an 18 foot jump shot with 2.5 seconds remaining. Clean! Syracuse up by one. Georgetown had a long 3. Well past half court. Popped it up just in time. Almost went in.

Syracuse won!

Everyone agrees. The 2 schools should schedule more games. Pure unadulterated basketball at its best!

Blue Macaw last night.

Finally saw Andrea and Joe again. The last time before Thanksgiving. Good people. Enjoyed a couple of drinks with them.

Also chatted with artist Jean Paul. An interesting guy. Jean, Andrea and I discussed internet dating. Jean Paul into it at the present time.

Everyone off to 801 to watch the Christmas Parade. I was lazy. Standing to watch the parade did not turn me on. I remained and had another drink.

Montana back bartending. A lovely young lady. Great personality. She had been on vacation for 2 weeks.

Remember Lauri no longer at the Rum Barrel on Sundays. She has returned to Aqua. She will be hosting the Back Bar beginning at 4.

Go! Lauri’s personality makes it special.

Harry Truman loved Key West. Key West loves Harry Truman.

C-Span recently did a poll to determine how U.S. Presidents through 2000 stacked up. Harry Truman ranked #5. Understandable. He inherited a full plate and handled things well.

Truman #5 behind Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Trump is too stupid to recognize what is going on around him. The neocons are taking over. Led by John Bolton. A warmonger.

When Huawei’s Meng was arrested in Vancouver, China’s Xi, Trump and their staffs were having dinner in Buenos Aires attempting to work out the tariff problems. Meng was arrested at the same time they were dining.

Bolton knew Meng was being arrested. Never told Trump. Makes Trump look like an ass. Embarrasses Xi and China.

One item, not much revealed. Meng was arrested for an alleged violation by her company re doing business with those doing business with Iran. The U.S. takes the position that if anyone does business with Iran, they will be penalized by the U.S.

Strange power the U.S. has.

The sanction violated does not have to do with Trump’s recent sanctions against Iran. Rather for a violation of sanctions imposed prior to 2015 by Obama. 

Shameful for Trump. He should have at least made such a move on sanctions he imposed.

Another thing bothering me is why Canada has been involved. Canada merely the arresting nation under extradition laws. Hearings going on presently in Canada to determine if Meng is to be extradited to New York for trial.

Trump keeps pushing the U.S.’s long time friend and neighbor Canada around.

Does not make sense. Merely exhibits a bully doing what he wants without caring about others.

Enjoy your Sunday!

WHAT A GAME! was originally published on Key West Lou

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Good Friday Rambles – Madison to Monticello

Easter weekend. Laura had Friday and Monday off from Furman and decided that she needed to head back down to Florida to check on her mom. She decided that she needed some “sister time” with Amy to talk about how their mother’s care was going. That being the case, I decided to needed some “brother time” with Houston, so for the holiday weekend we headed in different directions.

I arrived at Houston’s farm below Watkinsville, Georgia about mid-morning on Friday. I was loaded to the gills with every toy we might need – kites, cameras, banjo, drums, recording gear, computers, and paddling gear. I was set for any eventuality. We would actually use quite a bit of that gear.

Lynda also had the day off, so the three of us set off on a Good Friday ramble across Georgia. Our destination was Warm Springs, Georgia, and the Little White House of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was a 2.5 hour drive, and whether we would actually get there or not was debated several times as we got distracted along the way.

Our first stop/distraction was downtown Madison. Lynda needed to mail a package, so we stopped at the historic post office on the square. Houston and I took photos of an old bank that is in the process of being remodeled as a restaurant.

Chore accomplished, we headed on out of town…and hit another distraction on the way out. Houston, Glynda, and I had explored this area one fall a couple of years ago and had stopped at the old Madison Graded School. However, we had not been able to tour the interior. This time it was open, so we decided to go in.

The lighting for exterior shots was absolutely horrible and backlit. Here are two shots from our previous visit just as a reminder…

…plus one shot of the bell tower from this morning.

The old school now functions as the Madison Morgan Cultural Center, with a museum, art galleries, and an auditorium. We entered and stopped by their gift shop for tickets, and a souvenir.

I told Laura that if I ever bought myself a hip flask she should sign me up for AA. It would be an indication of a problem, if I felt the need to alcohol with me at all times in a pocket. However, the irony of having the image of a school on a container for alcohol was just too much. Plus, its purchase would help with maintenance of the school. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

We were joined in the gift shop by another visitor. Tom Plowden and his wife were visiting from Edgefield, and he had stopped by while his wife was shopping. Plowden was particularly loquacious, and we gabbed for a long time about people we knew in common (he had also graduated from Furman.) Plowden had a keen interest in the Confederacy, hence his interest in Madison as the “town that Sherman wouldn’t burn.”

The old school had been restored in spectacular fashion. The woodgrain finishes were beautiful, from the polished floors to the stairs and railings.

Public spaces on the first floor included the gift shop, a parlor, the auditorium, and the local history museum. In the small hallway that separated the gift shop from the museum hung a thick rope. We assumed this would be connected to the school’s bell. More on that later.

We started with the museum.

Given Madison’s role in the Confederacy they actually had very little on display from that period, much to Tom Plowden’s dismay. I guess if you’re giving a broad overview it’s hard to go in depth into any historical period in such a small space.

We headed on up to the second floor. One of the old classrooms had been restored with period furniture. Houston and I both remarked how similar these desks were to the ones we had used at Ford School in Laurens.

We also remarked that the map on the wall was of Paul’s Missionary Journeys.

The Madison Graded School was built in 1895 and functioned as a school until 1957. Prior to its opening education was mostly one-room, multi-grade rural classes. The name “Madison Graded” was to set it apart, as something new an unique.

Outside of the classroom hung a portrait of Mr. John Morehouse, custodian of the school in the early 20th Century. Mr. Morehouse was illiterate. The story we heard was that when the teachers were done for the day Mr. Morehouse asked that they not erase their chalkboards. He would take care of it. In doing so he taught himself to read and gained a rudimentary education.

The other end of the second floor held art galleries. These were closed as exhibits were in the process of changing. Right in the middle of the floor was a small space now used as an office. A stairway on the right side of the room led to the third floor, and hanging right next to the hapless occupant’s desk was the pull rope for the bell. We chatted with her for a bit.

We headed back downstairs and stepped into the parlor. This was another former classroom, now remodeled as a space for receptions and weddings.

This was also where one Norvell Hardy attended school. After school he would take his father’s name, Oliver, and begin his famous comedy routine with Stan Laurel.

Next to the parlor was the true gem of the school, the restored auditorium. It was a spectacular space, with curved seating area and a small balcony.

The wrought iron work on the ends of the rows was impressive.

As you might imagine with all of these hard surfaces, the acoustics were excellent. I would love to attend a concert here.

We had one last thing to do before we left. We had to ring the bell. Actually, Houston and Lynda insisted that I ring it while they took photos and videos. The bell was quite loud, and I thought about that poor person in the office about us. It didn’t keep me from ringing the bell, though.

Here’s the video, which features Houston nearly tripping down the steps in the second clip.

They DIDN’T give me one of these stickers, though.

We continued on our way. We planned our route to Warm Springs so as to avoid Interstates. Highway 83 took us through the town of Shady Dale, which was little more than a wide spot. There was an interesting old Methodist Church, a lumber yard, an old bank, and not much else.

Looking at the bank photo it occurred to me that I tend to be obsessive about old school architecture, but old banks can be just as cool. The architecture can be just as distinctive. So a short list of building types about one could obsess might include the following:

schools

churches

bridges (of various types)

banks

old country stores

barns

railroad depots

court houses

fire towers

…or, basically anything old with distinctive architecture.

It was about lunch time when we rolled into Monticello. Georgia is divided into many small counties, and each county has its own seat, usually with a unique courthouse. Such is the case with Monticello, county seat for Jasper County.

As with many of these towns, the courthouse sits either in the middle of or to the side of a central town square. We circled the square once, then found a parking spot.

Houston and I wanted barbecue. Lynda, being vegetarian, wasn’t keen on the meat, but these places usually have pretty good veggies, too. As we walked around the square we encountered one of the local denizens who told us that if we liked soul food we should really check out Dave’s BBQ on the other side of the square. We thanked him and used this as an opportunity to walk around the square.

Our conclusion was that for a small southern town Monticello had some weird things going on.

Then there was this place:

Houston wondered if the “All Eyes on Egipt” place was an outpost of the Nuwaubian Nation, a strange cult from Athens. I thought it was just an unusual beauty salon. Turns out Houston was right. There are “All Eyes on Egipt” bookstores all over the nation. I’d never heard of them before this trek, but it looks like it might be worth some follow-up and reading.

Eventually we found Dave’s BBQ and Soul Food. It was late in the lunch cycle, but there was still time to grab a bite before they closed.

There was one long white table down the middle for large groups with smaller tables on the periphery. Food was served cafeteria style.

This being a late lunch, they had already run out of lots of things. There was no barbecue, as I understand the term and cuisine – no pulled pork, ribs, or anything of that nature. Vegetable choices were few, and they only had fried chicken, pork chops, and fried catfish for meat. Dessert was also gone. Lynda does eat fish, so she and I got the catfish and Houston got the pork chop. I rounded out my plate with potato salad and cabbage. It was actually pretty good, especially when I used a generous amount of pepper vinegar sauce.

It also turns out that the table where we were sitting had played a roll in the movie My Cousin Vinny. I’m not sure I’ve watched that movie all the way through. I may have to watch it now, as other parts of the movie were shot around Monticello.

As we were walking back to the car we ran into the same guy that had pointed us in the direction of Dave’s BBQ. We thanked him for his suggestion. He asked if we had tried the vinegar sauce, and I was able to reply that it was great over the catfish. He posed for a photo with Houston.

We rolled out of Monticello wondering if we would, in fact make it to Warm Springs. The day wasn’t over, and there was more to see.

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