John Maher of Delancey Street: A Guide for Peaceful Revolution in America, by Grover Sales
‘Hunesty is the best policy + Confession is good for the soul’ = ‘Never do anything you will be ashamed to read on the front page of a newspaper.’; The Mymy Undergraduate.
“If a group of addicts and convicts can organise, with no violence, along multi-racial lines, and produce an economically cooperative situation — health care, employment, education — without the endless ‘help’ of professional social workers and the government — this means that the myth of the impotence of the people has forever been put to rest.”
When Archie Bunker screams, “I’m tired of being mugged, and I’m gonna break some jaws,” it’s the same thing as the black radicals saying, “Get these corrupt cops, dope pushers, and creep social workers out of my neighbourhood!” Because of the difference in political rhetoric and their sociological platform, they’ve got different perspectives. But the good people in both these camps find themselves at war with each other, when they’re actually on the same side, and in this kind of struggle, it’s only the giant bureaucracies that win. Quickly we find that the most virulent white racists can begin to respect blacks who stand up for themselves, and that when blacks meet really tough whites for the first time, instead of middle-class social worker lames, a mutual respect builds to where they can work together.
The toughest gangsters are verbally more racist when they come here, and racist in terms of who they hang out with. But the tougher they are, the more quickly they will grant respect to a member of another ethnic group who behaves in a fashion acceptable to their code.
In Games, a white racist is talked down to, laughed at, and maybe yelled at from time to time. We find it silly, some asshole comes here of any colour, never done anything except steal off his own mother, pimp off his wife, sell dope to poor people – this clown gets up and says, “I don’t like Armenians, they’re oily, smell weird, and got the brain-pans of salamanders.” This is comical, but not in a threatened environment where the integration is not genuine, and where such nonsense is greeted with horror. But in Delancey Street, we greet this kind of garbage with great gales of laughter. How can some black dope peddler come in here selling heroin to black children to keep them enslaved for the benefit of the landlords and the police structure, actually get up and rail at the white oppressor? HE IS THE FUCKING OPPRESSOR!
We recognise that racist babble and drug use are merely the symptomlogy of the oppressed, therefore not great crimes.
…. Of course, John Maher is behind all this. They held these seminars every morning, where someone in the house would run it down about what Delancey was doing, for about an hour, except when John did it, once or twice a week, and then it would run three hours. First time I heard John, I thought, “Jesus, they got me in here with a bunch of commies!” The second time he spoke I thought I was hearing Martin Luther King. And his seminars would start to build the unity. He told us where the Foundation was going; we’d ask him questions. He got rid of a lot of my prejudices about blacks, and my ignorance, the labels they put on people.
John has a way of carrying everyone in the room. He will say something in three hours to hit all three hundred people, give them something to work on. He speaks to an audience. He can talk about the prejudiced honkies, the prejudiced blacks, the guilt people carry around. He caroms everyone, hits them with something, and when he walks out, he leaves them thinking about themselves and their actions, what they really want to do with their lives, and if their lives are kind of fucked up, how they can change it.
The reason John gets to much respect is that everyone knows he is not asking you to do anything he doesn’t do himself. I got so much trust in the man, that he can ask me to do anything, I wouldn’t even question it, and I never felt that way about anyone. John can relate to you, put you through changes, because he’s been there himself, it’s not something he’s read in a book.
I’m not afraid of John, but I know if I try to run something under him he’ll say, “Ron, quit bullshitting me. Don’t bullshit a bullshitter,” and that’s frightening, because you got to come right out and level with him.
~ John Maher, founder of Delancey Street ~
» SQSwans: John Maher: Reports: John Maher of Delancey Street.
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KGB: The – ‘Sheer Honesty Agony of Deceipt – Inside Story.
“We should never send a spy to the Soviet Union. There is no weapon at once so disarming and effective in relations with the Communists as sheer honesty.” – William C. Bullitt, first American Ambassador in Moscow, letter to the State Department in 1936.
Diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union were established in November 1933, at a time when the United States had no civilian intelligence agency and American military intelligence was both small and disorganised.
The first American Ambassador in Moscow, William C. Bullitt, wrote to the State Department in 1936: “We should never send a spy to the Soviet Union. There is no weapon at once so disarming and effective in relations with the Communists as sheer honesty.”
That honesty was taken to remarkable lengths. George Kennan, one of the original members of Bullitt’s staff, later recalled that during its first winter of 1933-‘4 the embassy had no codes, no safes, no couriers and virtually no security: ‘Communications with our government went through the regular telegraphic office and lay on the table for the Soviet government to see.”
– Sigint, Agent Penetration and the ‘Magnificent Five’ from Cambridge 1930-’09; KGB: The Inside Story, by Christopher Andrew & Oleg Gordievsky.
KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev, by Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky: KGB: This history of the world’s largest and most powerful intelligence service, the KGB, from its origin after the Russian revolution to the present day, analyzes its operations against subjects as diverse as the EEC, Margaret Thatcher, Solidarity and Libya. This study also provides an insight into Gorbachev’s relations with the KGB and examines the disintegration of the Soviet bloc. Christopher Andrew has also written “Secret Service”. Gordievsky was a KGB colonel who worked for British intelligence as a penetration agent in the KGB from 1974. He escaped to the West in 1985. – Amazon.
KGB: The Inside Story. by Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky.Just as people in Palermo, Sicily, shy away from discussing the Mafia, most people who live under the Soviet system tiptoe around the subject of the KGB.1 Even Boris Yeltsin, the elected president of Russia, whose first official act was to refuse KGB “protection,” will not answer questions about whether the KGB stands in the way of his plans. But the KGB does stand in his and everybody else’s way. It has proved the most cohesive and remains the most privileged institution in the Soviet Union. It is the most solid part of Mikhail Gorbachev’s power base. Indeed, it is difficult to tell whether the KGB works for Gorbachev or Gorbachev works for it. The KGB deploys some 100,000 officers throughout the country. These people maintain files on just about everyone. They are well armed, and have richly earned their fearsome reputation. Behind them are some 300,000 KGB troops, also armed—with tanks, artillery, and airplanes. Then there are the Special Section officers who have controlled the armed forces since 1918, and whose grip is especially tight over the tough, professional Spetsnaz troops, and the other uniformed KGB troops who today have exclusive control of the Soviet Union’s nuclear stockpile. In addition to all this, the KGB controls the Interior Ministry and its roughly 350,000, also heavily armed, troops. ….But only Westerners tend to forget that the KGB is the proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the Soviet apparat. When Vice President George Bush, former director of the CIA, met Yuri Andropov, former director of the KGB, at Leonid Brezhnev’s funeral in November 1982, Bush tried to break the ice by remarking that both men had been “in the same business.” But the KGB is not remotely an intelligence agency like the CIA or the FBI. Nor is it a secret police on the model of the czar’s Okhrana—brutality is not what makes it unique. Much less is the KGB just another institution within the Soviet government apparatus. Least of all is the KGB what contemporary Soviet propaganda says it is: a politically neutral force for law and order. Rather, the KGB is the sine qua non of the Soviet regime, that without which the regime would have been stillborn, the indispensable ingredient in its development, and, in its old age, the main thing that keeps it upright. ….. The term KGB denotes here the Soviet organization instituted at Lenin’s orders on December 20, 1917, and called the Cheka. It underwent eight changes in name (while exercising essentially the same functions) before adopting in 1954 the name it bears today. For 73 years, “Chekists” have received their pay on the 20th of the month. – Commentary Magazine.
The Agony of Deceipt: KGB: The Inside Story: After joining the KGB in 1962, Oleg Gordievsky grew disillusioned six years later when Soviet tanks clattered into Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring and its new brand of socialism that promised a human face. In fact, Gordievsky grew so disillusioned that he offered his services to the British Secret Intelligence Services, which apparently accepted them with alacrity. While on the SIS payroll, or perhaps only in its thrall, Gordievsky continued to rise in his own spy service, eventually achieving the rank of KGB resident (head of station) in London. In 1985, he was summoned back to Moscow for consultation. Suspecting that his treachery had been discovered, Gordievsky dissembled, stalled and eventually escaped back to London, leaving behind his wife and two small daughters. He has not seen them since. In 1987, he teamed with Cambridge historian Christopher Andrew to write a history of the KGB. They would concentrate on how the Russian spy agencies have viewed the world as a huge conspiracy aimed directly at the U.S.S.R. The result is “KGB: The Inside Story,” a 776-page treatise that traces in often excruciating detail what Russian spies have done or tried to do from the time of Ivan the Terrible in 1565 to the present day. As they follow the KGB through its permutations from its birth as the Cheka in 1917 to the various acronyms that followed–OGPU, NKVD, MGB, MVD and, finally, KGB–the historian and the ex-spy return again and again to the Soviet obsession with conspiracies, some of them real, many of them imaginary. It also is a history of constant intrigue, rampant paranoia, numbing fear and, were it not for the wholesale butchery, it frequently reads like the inner workings of the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture gone slightly mad. ………. And then there is the curious case of Harry L. Hopkins, the man who was one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s closest advisers and sometimes even lived in the White House. According to Gordievsky, all the Soviet authorities he discussed Hopkins with agreed that “Hopkins had been an agent of major significance.” A Soviet agent, it should be noted. Upon reflection, Gordievsky finally decided that “Hopkins had been an unconscious rather than a conscious agent.” In CIA parlance, that would be an unwitting rather than a witting agent. Unwitting agents often are none too bright, which is something no one ever accused Hopkins of being. However, after going through a rather tortuous analysis, the two authors finally agree that “In backing Stalin and the Soviet war effort, Hopkins acted from a determination to prevent a Nazi victory rather than from a secret commitment to the Communist cause.” – LA Times. The Agony of Deceit.
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George Kennan – Richard Manning: Industrial Agriculture Uses 10 Calories of Oil, to Produce 1 Calorie of Food
The journalist’s rule says: follow the money. This rule, however, is not really axiomatic but derivative, in that money, as even VP Cheney will tell you, is really a way of tracking energy. We’ll follow the energy. …. Energy cannot be created or canceled, but it can be concentrated. This is the larger and profoundly explanatory context of a national-security memo George Kennan wrote in 1948 as the head of a State Department planning committee, ostensibly about Asian policy but really about how the United States was to deal with its newfound role as the dominant force on Earth. “We have about 50 percent of the world’s wealth but only 6.3 percent of its population,” Kennan wrote. “In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. …… “The day is not far off,” Kennan concluded, “when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts.” …….. The common assumption these days is that we muster our weapons to secure oil, not food. There’s a little joke in this. Ever since we ran out of arable land, food is oil. Every single calorie we eat is backed by at least a calorie of oil, more like ten. In 1940 the average farm in the United States produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil energy it used. By 1974 (the last year in which anyone looked closely at this issue), that ratio was 1:1. – Richard Manning: Harpers Magazine via Resilience: The Oil We Eat: Following the Food Chain Back to Iraq. TSWabbit: Daniel Quinn on Totalitarian Agriculture.
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WiP Gov officials and citizens need to (a) understand the WiP intnl law society they built; (b) support a change of Attitude between Party Officials & workers.
“Yuri Andropov rose to the peak of Soviet Leadership, when Brezhnev died in November 1982. Before the handover he had handled the KGB, the most powerful and notorious of Soviet institutions. In one of his speeches, Yuri Andropov said this: ‘We need to understand what kind of society we have built. Those were his own words. In the context of those dogmatic times, that sounded like a dissident phrase.” – – Nikolai Ryzhkov: Chairman: Council of Ministers of Soviet Union, 1985-1991; RT: Perestroika: From Re-Building to Collapse.
» IG: 17-08-04_sapersteincompost.
The Kemarova region in northern Siberia is one of Russia’s largest coal producing areas. People going down the mines every day have a particularly strong feeling of camaraderie. The Soviet Union’s first mass strikes began in the coal mining areas. One one occasion half a million workers in various parts of the country, went on strike, almost simultaneously. ‘No-one was working, they said go back, so we took a bus and went to the square. ‘Yes, and do you remember how many people were there?’. Vladimir Zotov, a retired coalminer remembers the events of those days frequently with his former colleagues. His team was the first to go on strike. ‘We didn’t have political demands, we didn’t try to change the system. What we did want was to change the attitude of the party bureaucracy towards us workers. Now a few over there have decided to launch perestroika. Okay, lets do it together. Mr Gorbachov, you start from above, and we will start from below.” – RT: Perestroika: From Re-Building to Collapse.
» IG: 17-08-04_sapersteincompost.
[…] “Yuri Andropov rose to the peak of Soviet Leadership, when Brezhnev died in November 1982. Before the handover he had handled the KGB, the most powerful and notorious of Soviet institutions. In one of his speeches, Yuri Andropov said this: ‘We need to understand what kind of society we have built. Those were his own words. In the context of those dogmatic times, that sounded like a dissident phrase.” – Nikolai Ryzhkov: Chairman: Council of Ministers of Soviet Union, 1985-1991; RT: Perestroika: From Re-Building to Collapse. » IG: 17-08-04_sapersteincompost; 17-08-05_kgb-maherdelanceystreethonesty. […]
[…] “Yuri Andropov rose to the peak of Soviet Leadership, when Brezhnev died in November 1982. Before the handover he had handled the KGB, the most powerful and notorious of Soviet institutions. In one of his speeches, Yuri Andropov said this: ‘We need to understand what kind of society we have built. Those were his own words. In the context of those dogmatic times, that sounded like a dissident phrase.” – Nikolai Ryzhkov: Chairman: Council of Ministers of Soviet Union, 1985-1991; RT: Perestroika: From Re-Building to Collapse. » IG: 17-08-04_sapersteincompost; 17-08-05_kgb-maherdelanceystreethonesty. […]
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