Online Learning: Who Destroyed Your Neighborhood and How They Did It

I feel it's important to send this out to you today. Especially now, with the Novel Coronavirus working its way around, and government officials and Corporate Media talking heads telling me what I need to do in order to be safe. People often wonder why I have trip-wire sensitivity and inherent distrust for the Government Media complex and their statements. The story below is the first thing I think of when I ask myself "are these people trustworthy?" It is also the first thing I talk about when people get angry at me for not instantly bending the knee and doing as I'm told by Corporate Media / Gov't.

It's a dark chapter in American history, and it wasn't that long ago.

The conspiracy theory, in the 1980's and the 1990's, was that the government was responsible for flooding the Black Neighborhood with crack cocaine. If you spoke openly of this, you were called all sorts of names. One of the more common ones was "Conspiracy Theorist". The problem was, it was all true. A reporter, Gary Webb, figured out the entire thing. The chain of command, why the CIA was sending drugs into certain areas, which government officials were involved - Webb had it all mapped out and he wrote a series of articles on it.

As usual, the Power Elite, mostly the Government and the Corporate Media, went after Webb, not his story. They didn't go after what he said or the facts They wen't after him. Hard. Webb killed himself eventually, shooting himself in the head twice. Re-read that last sentence.

He eventually turned the whole thing into a book, called Dark Alliance. I own it.

From the above article in The Intercept:

"Gary Webb’s troubles began in August 1996, when his employer, the San Jose Mercury News, published a groundbreaking, three-part investigation he had worked on for more than a year. Carrying the full title “Dark Alliance: The Story Behind the Crack Explosion,” Webb’s series reported that in addition to waging a proxy war for the U.S. government against Nicaragua’s revolutionary Sandinista government in the 1980s, elements of the CIA-backed Contra rebels were also involved in trafficking cocaine to the U.S. in order to fund their counter-revolutionary campaign. The secret flow of drugs and money, Webb reported, had a direct link to the subsequent explosion of crack cocaine abuse that had devastated California’s most vulnerable African American neighborhoods.

Derided by some as conspiracy theory and heralded by others as investigative reporting at its finest, Webb’s series spread through extensive talk radio coverage and global availability via the internet, which at the time was still a novel way to promote national news."

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The above article is really good. I recommend it.

There are some good videos, documentaries and movies on this topic. Here are some of them:

Crack in the System: It is the go to documentary on who was responsible, and how they did it. By using Freeway Ricky Ross, an illiterate high school tennis star, as its lens, the documentary gives you chapter and verse on the path of destruction created by the Federal Government and the Media.

Gary Webb lays out the process in this video. This video was originally erased from Youtube until recently re-uploaded:



The story was made into a Hollywood movie, which, while only a cursory analysis, is actually pretty good:



After going through this material, I don't think there is any way you can, from this day forward, look at Corporate Media and / or government officals with anything but distrust.

If they're willing to not only cause this level of death and destruction, lie about it, and kill the messenger; what else are they willing to do?

Once you wake up you can never go back to sleep.