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“Eighty-eight more narcotics convictions were thrown out by a Philadelphia judge Friday after an investigation determined they were tainted by allegations of police corruption.

The officers – Thomas Liciardello, Brian Reynolds, Michael Spicer, Perry Betts, Linwood Norman, and John Speiser – were acquitted of all charges at a federal trial in May.

A seventh narcotics officer charged, Jeffrey Walker, pleaded guilty to separate federal corruption charges and testified against his six former colleagues at trial. Walker was sentenced in July to 31/2 years in prison by a federal judge who credited his cooperation with prosecutors.

The time has come to cast all caution aside and start calling things what they are.  In this case, this latest story represents nothing less than a declaration of war by 24 Democratic Senators against the whole of the American people.  To some, this may sound extreme, but to the student of history, it is not stated harshly enough.  But then, I no longer write for those who may still be convinced because I no longer believe there are enough of those left to make any significant difference.  From now on, I write to encourage those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, and to prepare them for what is soon to come to America — and the world.

This story not only represents lawlessness, but also, a declaration of war by a large number of Democrat Senators against all of America:

24 Senate Democrats Urge Obama To…

An interesting take on fracturing elites in the US, by Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com:

The American Power Elite may yet discover that throw the bums out applies to all existing Establishment parties and Elites.

As I have often noted, historian Michael Grant identified profound political disunity in the ruling class as a key cause of the dissolution of the Roman Empire. Grant described this dynamic in his excellent account The Fall of the Roman Empire, a book I have been recommending since 2009.

The chapter titles of the book provide a precis of the other causes Grant identifies:

The Gulfs Between the Classes
The Credibility Gap
The Partnerships That Failed
The Groups That Opted Out
The Undermining of Effort

Today we focus on the rising profound political disunity of the Power Elites of the U.S. As a general observation, the largely theatrical polarization of the two political parties…

A blowback by blowback account of the US’s involvement in the Middle East since the first excursion into Afghanistan in 1979. From Dan Sanchez at antiwar.com:

“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind” — Hosea 8:7

It may be surprising to hear, but it is a plain historical fact that modern international jihad originated as an instrument of US foreign policy. The “great menace of our era” was built up by the CIA to wage a proxy war against the Soviets.

A 1973 coup in Afghanistan installed a new secular government that, while not fully communist, was Soviet-leaning. That was a capital offense from the perspective of America’s Cold War national security state, at the time headed by Henry Kissinger.

Conveniently for Kissinger, the dirt poor country was sandwiched between two US client states: Pakistan to the east and Iran (then still ruled by the CIA-installed Shah)…