San Francisco has six "safe sleeping villages", spending $18.2m for 260 tents for the homeless. The city's homelessness dept. is now asking for $15m a year for a similar # of tents ($57,000 per tent per year) - twice the median cost of a 1 BR apartment.
San Francisco at is best was a great city, beautiful, and full of smart, creative, interesting people.
The assassination of Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk (and elevation of Dianne Feinstein), ten days after Jonestown Guyana/People's Temple changed all of that. The Willie Brown machine was and still is quite powerful.
I lived there for many years. I visited six months ago and my old neighborhoods (the Tenderloin and Mission) were war zones/massive open-air drug markets. People passed out in the middle of the street. Piles of trash everywhere. Menacing, zombie dope fiends. I'm not exaggerating.
It's being destroyed by design. This is not anything new, it's just been taken to a new level. Afterwards, the Elites will swoop in and snap everything up that they don't already have.
Mob Boss Willie Brown is a piece of work. His fingers are everywhere in California politics. You could ask Phil Burton, but he suddenly died. You could ask Ed Lee, but he suddenly died, too.
Did you know Willie was on the podium at the Ambassador Hotel?
Read S.F. Chronicle 9/12/2001 for a good laugh.
Did you know Willie Brown was the last person to see George Moscone alive, before the shooting?
Dianne Feinstein was the first to find Harvey Milk's body.
Rep. Phil Burton's death eventually led to the emergence of Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
And Willie Brown's involvement with Kamala Harris is well-documented.
November, 1978 was a very bad month for Leo Ryan, George Moscone, Harvey Milk, and the people of San Francisco, but it was a very good month for Sidney Gottlieb.
From MuckRock:
"Attorney John Wahl, alleged that the murders were not only premeditated, but that various parties were involved in a large-scale effort to diminish the effectiveness of the state’s prosecution of White.
The letter provides ten facts that outline Wahl’s theory that multiple parties, including the San Francisco Police Department, conspired against Moscone and Milk. At the very least, Wahl’s accusations allude to a potential police cover-up."
If you didn't come here today for a quick dopamine fix, I recommend that you take some time and read the article in full. As with all of John's articles, this one is full of pearls to contemplate and great quotes.
I'll share some of the quotes and a bit of John's writing here, as time permits but don't assume the selected tidbits do full justice.
"In his epilogue to Devils of Loudun, (Aldous) Huxley noted the seductive nature of group think, of what he called the collective alienation of herds.
I said they were Bohemian Grove members (that's not speculation)
As for the CIA?
CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb ran LSD experiments in Palo Alto that Ken Kesey + Robert Hunter took part in. Allen Ginsburg first took LSD via Gottlieb's massive stash ($240,000 worth in 1953 dollars)
This led to Robert Hunter turning on the Grateful Dead with Sidney Gottlieb’s CIA-funded acid.
The Dead's first show as the "Grateful Dead", and not the Warlocks, as 12/4/65 at the San Jose Acid Test. LSD didn't become illegal in CA until six months later.
I don't have time right now but most Deadheads know about Owsley Stanley's role with the Dead and LSD Bay Area counterculture. Also look up Stuart Brand's role.
Electronic Frontier Foundation joins Podesta's Center for American Progress to "crack down on deliberate disinformation", but won't "unduly" limit free expression.
Center for Democracy + Technology (funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Ford Foundation, Google, John S. + James L. Knight Foundation, Amazon, Charles Koch Institute, Facebook, Microsoft, Open Society Foundations,
"The non-profit industrial complex...must be considered the most powerful army in the world. Employing billions of staff, all inter-connected, today’s campaigns, financed by our ruling oligarchs can become viral in a matter of hours"
“What’s infuriating about manipulations by the Non Profit Industrial Complex is that they harvest the goodwill of the people, especially young people.
They target those who were not given the skills and knowledge to truly think for themselves by institutions which are designed to serve the ruling class.
Multinational corporation Unilever (who owns Ben & Jerry's) hired private security to brutally put down a strike in S. Africa (rubber bullets, pepper spray, paintballs).
That is correct, hence the quotes. Sanctioned History sees Wilson differently. IMO 🤖he one of the worst American Presidents, ushering in the Federal Reserve, America's false flag entry into WW I + as the father of the Administrative State, modern Meritocracy and Elitism.