#‎J. Edgar Hoover

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Críticas — Enterrem Meu Coração na Curva do Rio (2007), Assassinos da Lua das Flores (2023), Primeiro, Mataram o Meu Pai (2017)

Em terra de cego quem tem um olho é Rei Desde a imaculada América pré-colombiana os índios americanos possuíam uma profunda afinidade espiritual com a natureza; surpreendentemente cuidadosos com o bem-estar ambiental, cuja terra era sagrada devido a sua ligação religiosa com os ancestrais. No entanto, o choque físico e cultural inevitável com os invasores logo após a promulgação da Independência…

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Another strange creature to confront, this time one you might see near the town of Fresno at night.

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“If every Deadhead voted, the country would be a different place.” - Hunter S. Thompson

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Twelve days into the Korean War, on 7th July 1950, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover approached President Harry S. Truman with a list of 12,000 names.

These names (97% of which were American citizens) were of people that Hoover felt should be indefinitely arrested and placed in concentration internment camps due to his claims that the people named were necessary to “protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage" in the event that America were to go to war against the Soviet Union.

The letter wherein he proposed these arrests stated that eventually the interned people would be allowed to have a hearing. The hearing board would have been a panel made up of one judge and two citizens. But the hearings “will not be bound by the rules of evidence,” his letter noted.

Who would have been these people that Hoover wished to detain? His usual suspects. People with socialist or communist beliefs or sympathies (real or manufactured), pacifists, early members of the civil rights movement such as the African-American singer and actor Paul Robeson...

Truman, to his credit, didn't agree with Hoover's suggestion and chose to veto it, although Congress reportedly would later vote to overturn his veto.

This was one of several documents declassified in the mid-2000s that underlined for as terrible as J. Edgar Hoover was, there were still even worse things he wanted to do that even Truman (who was brought on as FDR's vice president because the Democrats thought he'd make them look tougher on communism than Roosevelt's former VP, the socially progressive Henry Agard Wallace*) was against it.

*Wallace wanted to do things like ending segregation, bringing about gender and racial equality, and establishing a national health service (like the UK eventually adopted several years later), so OBVIOUSLY he had to go.

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Oh my god, they were right... the Soviets really are sending spies to fuck national secrets out of our soldiers 😭

Alan Scott: The Green Lantern (2023) Issue 4

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J. Edgar

I'm more than devastated. It is incredible. I cried for more than 30min.

You'll learn why Hoover was controversial but at the same time you'll understand and accept how he was. The old-age makeup can be cringy and it does take some time to get used to but the relationship between Hoover and Tolson is just deep felt. I didn't quite enjoy the slow pace and music but in the end they really made sense to me.

How can anyone love another person like Tolson did!?!? The best part, he's portrayed by Armie🙏

\\Armie looks immaculate in vintage fashion//

My fav Armie film aside from U.N.C.L.E.(and CMBYN!)😭🙏

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Alternative Reichenbach narratives from Leslie Klinger’s The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes

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[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

Research carried out by King family attorney William F. Pepper determined that MLK was really killed in a conspiracy coordinated by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Pepper died in April, but he is now the focus of a new film by John Barbour.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-corruption/new-film-commemorates-legacy-of-lawyer-who-exposed-conspiracy-to-murder-mlk

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

John Knefel at MMFA:

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and others in MAGA media have recently praised disgraced Sen. Joe McCarthy and his blacklists, a tactic that Project 2025 partner organization the American Accountability Foundation is attempting to bring to the White House should Donald Trump win in November. According to The Associated Press, AAF is planning to create and publicly post a list of “100 names of government workers to a website this summer to show a potential new administration who might be … ripe for scrutiny, reclassifications, reassignments or firings,” with a focus on “those in senior executive positions who could put up roadblocks to Trump’s plans for tighter borders and more deportations.”

The plan is reportedly underwritten by a $100,000 grant from conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation as part of Project 2025, its far-reaching and extreme effort to provide policy and personnel recommendations for a potential second Trump administration. One of Project 2025’s top priorities is the implementation of “Schedule F,” a scheme to remove job protections from federal workers by reclassifying career staffers as political appointees — a direct attack on federal unions that could be used to fire civil servants deemed insufficiently pro-Trump. AAF is one of more than 100 conservative organizations on Project 2025’s advisory board, and its initiative — synergistically dubbed Project Sovereignty 2025 — is the latest broadside against the 2.2 million people who work for the federal government. The AP article notes that the group’s list of what Heritage referred to as “anti-American bad actors” echoes the blacklist era of McCarthy, the disgraced anti-communist crusader whose name became synonymous with one of the most repressive periods in U.S. history.

[...] Project 2025’s Schedule F and AAF’s proposed blacklist are clear, direct descendants of the literal McCarthyism that MAGA media figures are so quick to praise. The McCarthy era saw massive purges of left-wing federal employees as part of the Cold War’s rightward shift in national politics, halting the potential for American social democracy and helping to plant the seeds for the neoliberal turn of the 1970s and the ensuing rise in inequality that accompanied it. McCarthy and fellow anti-communists like FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover also directed their oppressive tactics toward gay people — and those suspected or accused of being gay — who worked for the federal government during a period known as the Lavender Scare. McCarthy “directly linked homosexuality and Communism,” depicting gay people working in government as a national security threat. Historians estimate that between 5,000 and 10,000 federal workers were forced to resign during this period, often behind closed doors for fear of their gay identity — real or perceived — becoming public.

American Accountability Foundation, a Project 2025 partner, will enact a McCarthyist purge of the civil services if Donald Trump wins election again.

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the "watched SpyKids" to "Special Interest in Cold War spy shenanigans" to "deep and profound cynicism about the military-industrial-intelligence complex" pipeline

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I was ... Intimate ... with Satan! Why should they make me feel ASHAMED? as endorsed by j. edgar hoover obey the comic code authority, puny humans!