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In doing a series of diaries looking into the relationships of the folks who lived on Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, FL, since the 1930's, I discovered the relationship between the "Merchant of Death", and founder of the Jupiter Island community, Samuel F Pryor's of Remington Arms-UMC, son, Sam F Pryor Jr., and Nazi agent and American oil tycoon, William Rhodes Davis. Today, I discovered, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Davis was the grandfather of recent California governor, Gray Davis, and I think both parties and a co-operative press wanted to keep this from the public, and have succeeded....
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/20/191832/300/898/554378
election, could have Nazi linke skeletons in the family closets, and not be subjected to in depth press coverage and political opposition advertising, about their Nazi family backgrounds....why the press stayed silent, and the one candidate who was subjected to the adverse publiclty about this, stayed silent, too.
Why is the entire political establishment, including American Jews, so unconcerned about the republican party's fascist past, the corporate media's ccntrol by members of that party, and the pass that democrats give to the entire orchestrated climate of indifference?
Gray Davis was able to coverup, until yesterday, that his grandfather was a prominent Nazi agent, eliminated in 1941 by British spymaster, Sir William Stephenson, aka "Intrepid"!
Thank God we live in a country with a free press that locks itself down to please it's perceived masters....
Type into the google search box, these three words; Gray Davis grandfather. My piece is the first search result. Here is a description of my article: (from my wiki edit of Davis's bio)
Early life and political career.......It was not documented, until July 20, 2008, and never previoulsy disclosed by Davis, that his grandfather was WWII Nazi agent, William Rhodes Davis, an American working to supply oil from Mexico for Hitler's Germany, and to aid the 1940 presidential election campaign of republican candidate, Wendell Wilkie. William Rhodes Davis died about August 1, 1941, a year before the birth of Gray Davis, reportedly "removed" by British spymaster Sir William Stephenson, aka "Intrepid".[7]....
How does the "community of journalists", in the US, permit a man to run for the office of governor in the most populous state, three times, and not even bother to look into his family history, or even question the lack of it made available by the candidate?
Gore Vidal said it...in 1972:
"[t]here is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt—until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties."
Republicans and compliant media proved it, in the 2002 California gubernatorial recall contest:
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"So, what does the following, demonstrate about the practice of journalism, in the US in the near and the present era, compared to say....in the '30's and '40's? What does it say about the complicity of the two major political parties in keeping their "mutual skeletons", buried. The fact is, it was not in the interest of either political party to publicize former California governor, Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis Jr.'s family background, the fact that he is the grandson of a Nazi agent accused and documented to have taken money and instructions from the German Nazi regime in 1940, to help republican Willkie beat incumbant US president, Frankin D. Roosevelt?"
Upton Sinclair - Wikiquote
The Brass Check (1919)
* Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.
Gore Vidal - (1972) Wikipedia
"[t]here is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt—until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.
Manufacturing Consent
A Propaganda Model (1998)
The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfill this role requires systematic propaganda.....