On July 28, 1965 Pete Seeger wrote a memo to himself that contained the following reference to Bob Dylan's apparent post-1964 artistic, moral and political deterioration:
"It isn't pretty to see a corpse--man or beast...
"I knew that last week at Newport, I ran to hide my eyes and ears because I could not bear either the screaming of the crowd nor some of the most destructive music this side of Hell. Bob Dylan, the frail, restless, homeless kid who came to New York in `61 was now the frail, restless, homeless star on the stage.
"...When we see a flaming streak across the sky, we all exclaim, though the light has died before the echo of our voices. But I am glad I saw this shooting star...The songs Bob wrote in 1962 and 1963 will be sung for many a year...
"...What is the reason for the change--I don't know. A girl gone perhaps. A manager come. The claws of fame. Or was he killed with kindness?...
"His more recent songs--who is going to sing them? And for how long?..."
(from the Pete Seeger: In His Own Words book of 2012 that Rob Rosenthal and Sam Rosenthal edited)
Monday, June 10, 2013
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Quotations From Pete Seeger: On The `Star System'
In an October 30, 1969 letter, Pete Seeger wrote the following in reference to the U.S. music industry's undemocratic "star system"--and its undemocratic influence on U.S. left-wing and left-liberal activists and organizers:
"...Unfortunately, the average person that calls me is just as much a prisoner of the `Star system' as anybody else, and they always want to get someone with a well-known name who can help fill the hall..."
( from Pete Seeger: In His Own Words, selected and edited by Rob Rosenthal and Sam Rosenthal and published in 2012 by Paradigm Publishers)
"...Unfortunately, the average person that calls me is just as much a prisoner of the `Star system' as anybody else, and they always want to get someone with a well-known name who can help fill the hall..."
( from Pete Seeger: In His Own Words, selected and edited by Rob Rosenthal and Sam Rosenthal and published in 2012 by Paradigm Publishers)
Friday, June 7, 2013
Black Youth Unemployment Rate Increases To 42.6 Percent In May 2013
The official “seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for Black youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age jumped from 40.5 to 42.6 percent between April and May 2013; while the official unemployment rate for all Black workers (youth, female and male) in the United States increased from 13.2 to 13.5 percent during the same period, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ data.
Between April and May 2013, the official number of unemployed Black youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age increased by 20,000 (from 287,000 to 307,000); while the number of Black youths who still have jobs decreased by 10,000 (from 423,000 to 413,000) during the same period.
The official unemployment rate for Black male workers over 20 years-of-age jumped from 12.6 to 13.5 percent between April and May 2013; while the official number of unemployed Black male workers over 20 years-of-age increased by 82,000 (from 1,058,000 to 1,140,000) during the same period. In addition, the number of Black male workers over 20 years-of-age who still have jobs decreased by 18,000 (from 7,319,000 to 7,301,000) between April and May 2013.
Between April and May 2013, the total number of officially unemployed Black workers in the United States also increased by 71,000 (from 2,450,000 to 2,521,000); while the official jobless rate for Black female workers over 20 years-of-age was still 11.2 percent in May 2013.
The official “seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for white youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 21.6 percent in May 2013; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Latino youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age increased from 28 to 28.5 percent between April and May 2013. In addition, between April and May 2013 the number of unemployed Latino youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age increased by 29,000 (from 291,000 to 320,000), according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for Latina female workers over 20 years-of-age increased from 7.5 to 8.1 percent between April and May 2013; while the number of unemployed Latina female workers over 20 years-of-age increased by 81,000 (from 734,000 to 815,000) during the same period.
The “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all Latino workers (youth, male and female) increased from 9 to 9.1 percent between April and May 2013; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Latino male workers over 20 years-of-age was still 7.2 percent in May 2013.
Between April and May 2013, the total number of officially unemployed white workers in the United States increased by 49,000 (from 8,238,000 to 8,287,000); while the official “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all white workers (youth, male and female) was still 6.7 percent in May 2013.
The official “seasonally adjusted” number of unemployed white youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age increased by 12,000 (from 1,005,000 to 1,017,000) between April and May 2013; while the jobless rate for white male workers over 20 years-of-age was still 6.4 percent in May 2013.
The official “seasonally adjusted” number of unemployed white female workers over 20 years-of-age increased by 38,000 (from 3,098,000 to 3,136,000) between April and May 2013; while the unemployment rate for white female workers over 20 years-of-age increased from 5.7 to 5.8 percent during the same period.
According to the “not seasonally adjusted” data, the number of Asian-American workers not in the U.S. labor force increased by 63,000 (from 4,788,000 to 4,851,000) between April and May 2013; while the unemployment rate for Asian-American workers was 4.3 percent in May 2013. In addition, 365,000 Asian-American workers in the United States were still officially unemployed in May 2013, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
Between April and May 2013, the official “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age increased from 24.1 to 24.5 percent; while the total number of officially unemployed youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age in the United States increased by 69,000 (from 1,372,000 to 1,441,000) during the same period.
For all male workers over 16 years-of-age in the United States, the official jobless rate increased from 7.7 to 7.9 percent between April and May 2013; while the total number of unemployed male workers over 16 years-of-age in the United States increased by 182,000 (from 6,382,000 to 6,564,000) during that same period.
Between April and May 2013, the official unemployment rate for all male workers over 20 years-of-age in the United States also increased from 7.1 to 7.2 percent; while the total number of unemployed male workers over 20 years-of-age increased by 110,000 (from 5,644,000 to 5,754,000) during the same period. In addition, the total number of male workers over 20 years-of-age who still have jobs decreased by 35,000 (from 74,159,000 to 74,124,000) between April and May 2013; while the total number of male workers over 20 years-of-age not in the U.S. labor force increased by 28,000 (from 29,933,000 to 29,961,000) during the same period.
The official unemployment rate for all U.S. workers increased from 7.5 to 7.6 percent between April and May 2013; while the total official number of unemployed workers in the United States increased by 101,000 (from 11,659,000 to 11,760,000) during the same period, according to the “seasonally adjusted” date. In addition the jobless rate for all female workers over 16 years-of-age in the United States was still 7.1 percent in May 2013; while the official jobless rate for all female workers over 20 years-of-age was still 6.5 percent during that same month.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ June 7, 2013 press release:
“…In May, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was unchanged at 4.4 million. These individuals accounted for 37.3 percent of the unemployed…In May, the number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) was unchanged at 7.9 million. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job…
“In May, 2.2 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force…These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
“Among the marginally attached, there were 780,000 discouraged workers in May…Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them…
“Within government, federal government employment declined by 14,000 in May…Employment in…mining and logging, construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, transportation and warehousing, and financial activities…showed little or no change over the month…
“The change in total nonfarm payroll employment…for April was revised from +165,000 to +149,000…Employment gains in March and April combined were 12,000 less than previously reported…”
Between April and May 2013, the official number of unemployed Black youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age increased by 20,000 (from 287,000 to 307,000); while the number of Black youths who still have jobs decreased by 10,000 (from 423,000 to 413,000) during the same period.
The official unemployment rate for Black male workers over 20 years-of-age jumped from 12.6 to 13.5 percent between April and May 2013; while the official number of unemployed Black male workers over 20 years-of-age increased by 82,000 (from 1,058,000 to 1,140,000) during the same period. In addition, the number of Black male workers over 20 years-of-age who still have jobs decreased by 18,000 (from 7,319,000 to 7,301,000) between April and May 2013.
Between April and May 2013, the total number of officially unemployed Black workers in the United States also increased by 71,000 (from 2,450,000 to 2,521,000); while the official jobless rate for Black female workers over 20 years-of-age was still 11.2 percent in May 2013.
The official “seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for white youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 21.6 percent in May 2013; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Latino youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age increased from 28 to 28.5 percent between April and May 2013. In addition, between April and May 2013 the number of unemployed Latino youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age increased by 29,000 (from 291,000 to 320,000), according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for Latina female workers over 20 years-of-age increased from 7.5 to 8.1 percent between April and May 2013; while the number of unemployed Latina female workers over 20 years-of-age increased by 81,000 (from 734,000 to 815,000) during the same period.
The “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all Latino workers (youth, male and female) increased from 9 to 9.1 percent between April and May 2013; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Latino male workers over 20 years-of-age was still 7.2 percent in May 2013.
Between April and May 2013, the total number of officially unemployed white workers in the United States increased by 49,000 (from 8,238,000 to 8,287,000); while the official “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all white workers (youth, male and female) was still 6.7 percent in May 2013.
The official “seasonally adjusted” number of unemployed white youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age increased by 12,000 (from 1,005,000 to 1,017,000) between April and May 2013; while the jobless rate for white male workers over 20 years-of-age was still 6.4 percent in May 2013.
The official “seasonally adjusted” number of unemployed white female workers over 20 years-of-age increased by 38,000 (from 3,098,000 to 3,136,000) between April and May 2013; while the unemployment rate for white female workers over 20 years-of-age increased from 5.7 to 5.8 percent during the same period.
According to the “not seasonally adjusted” data, the number of Asian-American workers not in the U.S. labor force increased by 63,000 (from 4,788,000 to 4,851,000) between April and May 2013; while the unemployment rate for Asian-American workers was 4.3 percent in May 2013. In addition, 365,000 Asian-American workers in the United States were still officially unemployed in May 2013, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
Between April and May 2013, the official “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age increased from 24.1 to 24.5 percent; while the total number of officially unemployed youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age in the United States increased by 69,000 (from 1,372,000 to 1,441,000) during the same period.
For all male workers over 16 years-of-age in the United States, the official jobless rate increased from 7.7 to 7.9 percent between April and May 2013; while the total number of unemployed male workers over 16 years-of-age in the United States increased by 182,000 (from 6,382,000 to 6,564,000) during that same period.
Between April and May 2013, the official unemployment rate for all male workers over 20 years-of-age in the United States also increased from 7.1 to 7.2 percent; while the total number of unemployed male workers over 20 years-of-age increased by 110,000 (from 5,644,000 to 5,754,000) during the same period. In addition, the total number of male workers over 20 years-of-age who still have jobs decreased by 35,000 (from 74,159,000 to 74,124,000) between April and May 2013; while the total number of male workers over 20 years-of-age not in the U.S. labor force increased by 28,000 (from 29,933,000 to 29,961,000) during the same period.
The official unemployment rate for all U.S. workers increased from 7.5 to 7.6 percent between April and May 2013; while the total official number of unemployed workers in the United States increased by 101,000 (from 11,659,000 to 11,760,000) during the same period, according to the “seasonally adjusted” date. In addition the jobless rate for all female workers over 16 years-of-age in the United States was still 7.1 percent in May 2013; while the official jobless rate for all female workers over 20 years-of-age was still 6.5 percent during that same month.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ June 7, 2013 press release:
“…In May, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was unchanged at 4.4 million. These individuals accounted for 37.3 percent of the unemployed…In May, the number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) was unchanged at 7.9 million. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job…
“In May, 2.2 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force…These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
“Among the marginally attached, there were 780,000 discouraged workers in May…Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them…
“Within government, federal government employment declined by 14,000 in May…Employment in…mining and logging, construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, transportation and warehousing, and financial activities…showed little or no change over the month…
“The change in total nonfarm payroll employment…for April was revised from +165,000 to +149,000…Employment gains in March and April combined were 12,000 less than previously reported…”
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
50 Years Since JFK Assassination Retrospective: Did Ruby Have Connections To H.L. Hunt Dynasty?
The guy who killed Lee Oswald on tv two days after JFK was eliminated, Jack Ruby, apparently had a few connections to the family of H.L. Hunt. As Texas Rich by Henry Hurt III recalled in 1981:
"The FBI uncovered two...possible links between Jack Ruby and H.L. Hunt. One was Isaiah Howard Haynes. A black laborer and handyman, Haynes had worked for Ruby for 16 years. His job was to clean up at Ruby's Carousel Club between the hours of 4 and 7 pm. But during nine of those years, Haynes had also been employed as a houseman-porter-chauffeur for the Loyd B. Sands family...Loyd Sands was the son-in-law of H.L. Hunt. Haynes was still employed by both Ruby and the Sands on the day Kennedy was shot. Ruby and the Hunt family also shared another black employee--Andrew Armstrong...He was employed at the Holiday Hill apartments, which the Hunts owned, from May to December of 1961. Two months later, in February of 1962, he went to work for Ruby as a maintenance man at the Carousel Club. Strangely enough, the Warren Commsision investigators questioned Haynes and Armstrong about possible connections or contact between Ruby and Oswald (both said they knew of none), but did not ask them about possible connections between Ruby and the Hunts."
(Aquarian Weekly 1/15/97)
"The FBI uncovered two...possible links between Jack Ruby and H.L. Hunt. One was Isaiah Howard Haynes. A black laborer and handyman, Haynes had worked for Ruby for 16 years. His job was to clean up at Ruby's Carousel Club between the hours of 4 and 7 pm. But during nine of those years, Haynes had also been employed as a houseman-porter-chauffeur for the Loyd B. Sands family...Loyd Sands was the son-in-law of H.L. Hunt. Haynes was still employed by both Ruby and the Sands on the day Kennedy was shot. Ruby and the Hunt family also shared another black employee--Andrew Armstrong...He was employed at the Holiday Hill apartments, which the Hunts owned, from May to December of 1961. Two months later, in February of 1962, he went to work for Ruby as a maintenance man at the Carousel Club. Strangely enough, the Warren Commsision investigators questioned Haynes and Armstrong about possible connections or contact between Ruby and Oswald (both said they knew of none), but did not ask them about possible connections between Ruby and the Hunts."
(Aquarian Weekly 1/15/97)
Monday, June 3, 2013
50 Years Since JFK Assassination Retrospective: Was H.L. Hunt Dynasty Involved In JFK Assassination Cover-Up?
As the 1973 movie Executive Action indicated, many folks in the U.S. suspect that Texas oil billionaires like H.L. Hunt were involved in plots that led to JFK's elimination in Dallas on November 22, 1963. And in his 1995 book Killing Kennedy, Harrison Edward Livingstone included the following references to H.L. Hunt and the Hunt dynasty:
"I had high-level information in Dallas that the original Zapruder film (from Zapruder's camera) was first obtained by H.L. Hunt before Life bought what they thought was the original...The indication is that Hunt's people obtained it and passed it on to the FBI who sent it to headquarters in Washington shortly after it was developed...What happened to H.L. Hunt's copy? Why won't the Hunt family discuss this?"
Coincidentally, Texas Rich by Henry Hurt III also recalled in 1981:
"The Hunts learned that President Kennedy's visit to Dallas might be greeted with violence nearly three weeks before the president crossed the state line. The warning came from the family's master intelligence man, Hunt Oil security chief Paul Rothermel. In a November 4, 1963 interoffice memo headlined `POLITICS,' Rothermel informed his boss that there had been `unconfirmed reports of possible violence during the parade' scheduled to take place when Kennedy arrived in town on November 22...
"The pandemonium that engulfed Dallas swept through the offices of Hunt Oil Company with gale force...Someone reportedly began shredding most circulating copies of Rothermel's memo of November 4..."
(Aquarian Weekly 1/15/97)
"I had high-level information in Dallas that the original Zapruder film (from Zapruder's camera) was first obtained by H.L. Hunt before Life bought what they thought was the original...The indication is that Hunt's people obtained it and passed it on to the FBI who sent it to headquarters in Washington shortly after it was developed...What happened to H.L. Hunt's copy? Why won't the Hunt family discuss this?"
Coincidentally, Texas Rich by Henry Hurt III also recalled in 1981:
"The Hunts learned that President Kennedy's visit to Dallas might be greeted with violence nearly three weeks before the president crossed the state line. The warning came from the family's master intelligence man, Hunt Oil security chief Paul Rothermel. In a November 4, 1963 interoffice memo headlined `POLITICS,' Rothermel informed his boss that there had been `unconfirmed reports of possible violence during the parade' scheduled to take place when Kennedy arrived in town on November 22...
"The pandemonium that engulfed Dallas swept through the offices of Hunt Oil Company with gale force...Someone reportedly began shredding most circulating copies of Rothermel's memo of November 4..."
(Aquarian Weekly 1/15/97)
Sunday, June 2, 2013
45 Years Since RFK Assassination Retrospective: Who Burned RFK Assassination Investigation Photos?
Coincidentally, around the time of the 1968 Democratic National Convention much of the photographic evidence related to 1968 Democratic presidential primary candidate and U.S. Senator from New York Robert Kennedy's elimination was apparently burned. According to The Kennedy Encyclopedia by Caroline Latham and Jeannie Sakol:
"In August 1988, the state of California released much of its documentation of the investigation of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's assassination on the night of June 5, 1968. Among the more than 50,000 pages of material was a certificate attesting to the fact that 2,410 photographs taken during the investigation were burned on August 21, 1968, little more than two months after the shooting. The Los Angeles Police Department said they did not know why the photographs were destroyed. Scholars have labeled the burning `incredible' and suggested it might be the resultt of something more sinister than mere incompetence."
(Downtown 7/22/92)
"In August 1988, the state of California released much of its documentation of the investigation of Senator Robert F. Kennedy's assassination on the night of June 5, 1968. Among the more than 50,000 pages of material was a certificate attesting to the fact that 2,410 photographs taken during the investigation were burned on August 21, 1968, little more than two months after the shooting. The Los Angeles Police Department said they did not know why the photographs were destroyed. Scholars have labeled the burning `incredible' and suggested it might be the resultt of something more sinister than mere incompetence."
(Downtown 7/22/92)
Saturday, June 1, 2013
45 Years Since RFK Assassination Retrospective: Media Coverage Of The RFK Assassination
In Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: New Revelations On The Conspiracy and Cover-Up, Southeastern Massachusetts University Professor Philip Melanson asserted in the early 1990s that "after more than two decades of tortured evidentiary logic, secrecy and deception, the official version of the RFK assassination has been so discredited that it collapsed like a house of cards" and "a second gunman, a female accomplice, a hypno-programmed assailant--all have been obscured by what is surely one of the most concerted, longest-running, best-documented cover-ups in the history of U.S. law enforcement..."
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination book also asserted the following:
"Media coverage...has all too often been absent, biased toward official sources, sensationalized or geared exclusively toward human-interest stories (that is, who is still interested in the case and what makes them tick)...The effect of this deficient attention has been to make it easier for the investigating authorities to shield themselves from accountability as well as to perpetuate myths and disinformation suupportive of the official version of the assassination...
"The Hollywood myth of the RFK case--lone assassin, open-and-shut, thorough investigation--that presently dominates our political culture is a costly deception."
Coincidentally, in its November 1966 issue, the alternative newspaper The Movement noted the following:
"Last month Robert Kennedy's brother-in-law was killed in the crash of a private plane in Idaho. Killed with him was Louis Werner II, a St. Louis investment banker. The AP dispatch on the crash identified him as an employee of the CIA. The New York Times story said he had been for 15 years the chief of the St. Louis CIA office, and that his principal job was the recruitment of personnel for the spy agency."
(Downtown 6/29/94)
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination book also asserted the following:
"Media coverage...has all too often been absent, biased toward official sources, sensationalized or geared exclusively toward human-interest stories (that is, who is still interested in the case and what makes them tick)...The effect of this deficient attention has been to make it easier for the investigating authorities to shield themselves from accountability as well as to perpetuate myths and disinformation suupportive of the official version of the assassination...
"The Hollywood myth of the RFK case--lone assassin, open-and-shut, thorough investigation--that presently dominates our political culture is a costly deception."
Coincidentally, in its November 1966 issue, the alternative newspaper The Movement noted the following:
"Last month Robert Kennedy's brother-in-law was killed in the crash of a private plane in Idaho. Killed with him was Louis Werner II, a St. Louis investment banker. The AP dispatch on the crash identified him as an employee of the CIA. The New York Times story said he had been for 15 years the chief of the St. Louis CIA office, and that his principal job was the recruitment of personnel for the spy agency."
(Downtown 6/29/94)
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