This Day in History 1919: “America First” Massacre of Blacks in Elaine, Arkansas

The Encyclopedia of Arkansas gives the following report on racist white mobs in 1919. It starts by saying a small posse of armed white men showed up to violently disrupt a meeting of Blacks having a peaceful meeting. The white assailants were shot dead in the firefight: Though accounts of who fired the first shots … Continue reading This Day in History 1919: “America First” Massacre of Blacks in Elaine, Arkansas

“America First” Attempted to Impeach and Assassinate U.S. President

Details found in the U.S. ODNI reader under “Counterintelligence in WWII” First, the Japanese are alerted by Nazis that their Ambassador’s code messages are being monitored by the U.S. and “drastic steps should be taken” in response. From: Berlin (Oshima) 3 May 1941 To: Tokyo (Matsuoka) #482 STAAMAA called me this day (evening?) and stating … Continue reading “America First” Attempted to Impeach and Assassinate U.S. President

Mapping “America First” Revival of the KKK

Recently I wrote about a country song of encoded KKK/Nazi signals, called “The Big Revival“. It got me thinking about whether a map might show how a KKK revival happened as a result of Woodrow Wilson’s “America First” campaign platform in 1915. And then I found someone at Virginia Commonwealth University already had gone to … Continue reading Mapping “America First” Revival of the KKK

American Diesel Cheaters Acting Like VW Never Happened, Hit With Measly $10M Fine

As I’ve said since forever, VW was a much easier target for America than America was. Dropping a regulator hammer on the Berkeley Professors and Marin Dairy Farmers driving a diesel VW station wagon is like a walk in the park. Sure, VW got raked over the coals and there was serious fall-out in Germany … Continue reading American Diesel Cheaters Acting Like VW Never Happened, Hit With Measly $10M Fine