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thoughtportal · 10 months

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Sinéad O’Connor, Dies at 56

Sinéad O’Connor, has died, The Irish Times reports. She was 56.

Her cause of death has yet to be revealed.

Her family said in a statement: “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.”

O’Connor, who was outspoken about her decades-long struggle with mental illness, wrote on her Facebook page earlier this month that she had moved back to London after 23 years and was finishing an album to be released next year. She also shared plans to tour in Australia and New Zealand in 2024, and in Europe, the United States and other territories in 2025.

O’Connor had a difficult childhood after the separation of her parents when she was eight. The singer claimed from an early age that her mother, who she lived with after the separation, physically abused her, which led to O’Connor’s vocal advocacy for abused children. At 15, O’Connor spent eighteen months at a Magdalene Asylum due to her truancy and shoplifting. Even at an early age, however, O’Connor showed musical talent and, after moving schools, recorded a four-song demo. She eventually formed the band Ton Ton Macoute, dropped out of school, and moved to Dublin.

O’Connor’s career progressed after she began working with ex-U2 record head Fachtna O’Ceallaigh and she found early success with the 1987 release of her debut album “The Lion and the Cobra,” which achieved gold status and earned her a Grammy nomination for best female vocal rock performance.

Her international breakthrough came with the release of her second album, “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got,” which included O’Connor’s new arrangement of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” a song originally written by Prince and released under his side project, the Family. O’Connor’s rendition reached No. 1 in several countries, and remained atop the charts in Ireland for 11 weeks. The song earned her a Grammy nom for record of the year, as well as another best female vocal rock performance nod. The album won her a Grammy for best alternative music performance.

She also appeared as Our Lady in Neil Jordan’s 1997 film “The Butcher Boy.” O’Connor went on to release eight more albums, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Long Form for her live concert VHS “Year of the Horse” in 1990. Her 1996 song “Famine” also received a Grammy nod for Best Music Video, Short Form. In 2012, the song “Lay Your Head Down,” which she performed for the soundtrack to the film “Albert Nobbs,” received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song.

Throughout her career, O’Connor has gained notoriety for her outspoken nature and several controversies that have surrounded her. In 1993, O’Connor ripped a picture of the Pope into pieces while singing an a capella version of Bob Marley’s “War” on “Saturday Night Live” as a protest against sexual abuse within the church; NBC received over 4,400 complaint calls as a result.

In 2013, O’Connor wrote an open letter to Miley Cyrus regarding Cyrus’ sexually explicit imagery and warning her of the treatment of women in the music industry, urging Cyrus not to allow herself to be “pimped” by music executives. The letter received mixed responses from the public, and musician Amanda Palmer wrote an open letter in response stating that O’Connor was “off target” with her critique.

O’Connor revealed in a 2007 interview that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2003 and had attempted suicide in 1999 on her 33rd birthday. Seven years later, however, she stated that she had gotten three further opinions stating that she was not bipolar.

In 2015, O’Connor posted on her Facebook page that she had taken an overdose as a result of troubles between herself and Donal Lunny, her ex-husband and the father of her youngest child Shane. Irish police later said they had located O’Connor and she was “safe and sound” and receiving medical attention.

In August 2017, she posted an emotional video to her Facebook page, stating that she had three mental illnesses and felt alone after losing custody of her 13-year-old son Shane. She continued that she had wanted to kill herself for several years and that only her psychiatrists and doctor were keeping her alive. She pleaded for someone in her family to take care of her, and added that she was “one of millions” who are stigmatized for their mental illness.

O’Connor is survived by her three children. Her son, Shane, died by suicide last year at age 17.

O’Connor had switched to a new Twitter account at the beginning of July, using her full name. Her final Twitter post on the new account, on July 17, alluded to her son’s suicide, as she linked to a “Great Tibetan Compassion Mantra” and wrote, “For all mothers of Suicided children.”

#sinéad o’connor

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dunhamrc · 3 months

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Johnny Jenkins - Ton-Ton Macoute

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slovenlyrecordings · 6 months

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We lost a member of our family this week. Our pals in Valencia (Spain) are mourning his loss, and celebrating his life. Raise your glass to Julian "Gigante" Marco, and blare one of the many records he played on. Here's one we did:

#Julian “Gigante” Marco #Julian Marco #TONTONMACOUTES

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cyarskaren52 · 10 months

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Incredible tribute by Kathy Iandoli of Daily Beast

The mid-1980s were a contentious time for hip-hop and nobody wanted to admit it. Nobody, meaning anyone tangentially connected to the corporate side of mainstream art. And by corporate, meaning monetizing. Oh, and by mainstream, meaning white.

That’s because the musical embodiment of hip-hop culture—rap music—was finally leaving its block and gearing up to take over the world. The pioneers were inching toward new levels like radio (thanks to Mr. Magic’s “Rap Attack”) and film (thanks to Harry Belafonte’s Beat Street, among others). Add to that the formation of Def Jam and Tommy Boy Records and we started to witness rappers fully becoming a viable part of the music industry.

It was terrifying to those who thought they could contain it. And they tried, really hard. Rap was endearing when it was cheeky, as evidenced in 1986 when Run-DMC and Aerosmith collaborated on the single “Walk This Way.” The two groups showed the yin and yang effect of how the mainstream detested both rap music and glam rock music, as they’re both “making noise” in rooms next to each other, only to “break down the wall” and work together. Everyone loved that symbolism, that “unapologetic unity” even as the Grammy committee was slowly piecing together its plan to acknowledge how rappers sold records—but not have the rest of the world see it on their TV screens. Ironic.

Then along came Sinéad O’Connor.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Sinéad was cut from a different kind of cloth. She sang in a band called Ton Ton Macoute before flying solo and landing in the ears of Americans, thanks to her college radio hit “Mandinka.” O’Connor cited inspirations ranging from Bob Dylan and David Bowie to Bob Marley, though like many, she was made aware of the hip-hop explosion happening in the States and was drawn to it. Some would say that O’Connor harbored a “punk” attitude, and hip-hop was as punk as you could get, so the allure made sense. Her 1987 debut album The Lion and the Cobra was a commercial success, earning her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 1989. Many regard that album as a “breaking free” of sorts. For Sinéad it was against the patriarchy and the Roman Catholic Church (at times, synonymous), though anyone could feel the depth of that rebellion and apply it to their lives. When O’Connor arrived Stateside, she found a space to openly rebel, and to put it bluntly, fight the power. She found that avenue through hip-hop as one of its biggest allies at a time when the odds were stacked against it.

There have been other instances where white artists have attempted to use their podium for the greater good of this Black art form. Blondie’s Debbie Harry shouted out Fab Five Freddy during her little rapping ditty on the 1980 Blondie hit “Rapture,” though it backfired once music history revisionists attempted to credit Blondie with the first commercial rap hit, usurping the throne of The Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” though some will still argue that Blondie had the first rap music video. To be fair, Debbie Harry does not agree. In 1981, she circled back and requested the Funky 4 + 1 as musical guests when she hosted Saturday Night Live—though SNL agreed and then only televised the group’s performance as the credits rolled at the end of the episode. Suffice to say, getting hip-hop its well-deserved visibility in the ’80s was an uphill battle.

For O’Connor, it became a different kind of mission, one rooted in a deep understanding of what it’s like to be silenced and then openly criticized for the desire to speak up. This was an all-encompassing mission, though hip-hop played a major part of it. She did so in minor ways before quickly moving them to major.

In 1988, when her record label wanted her to give her Grammy-nominated debut album a jolt with a new song, she added rapper MC Lyte on the remix to her single “I Want Your Hands (On Me).” The single was offered as both a Dance and Street version, and while the aforementioned Aerosmith/Run-DMC collaboration was regarded as a “mash-up,” the Lyte collab was a bold, revolutionary, yet completely seamless joining of forces. It changed the game for women in hip-hop moving forward, offering new possibilities in sound and commercial experimentation.

Sinéad doubled down on her support for hip-hop a year later during the 31st Grammy Awards, where she was nominated in the aforementioned Best Female Rock Vocal Performance category and was also asked to perform. Meanwhile, hip-hop was fighting for its life at the ceremony. The genre had become far too big to contain, yet the Grammys found a way to do it, simply by not televising the first Grammy in history for Best Rap Performance. Further, they opted to make DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince the victors, with their commercial rap hit “Parents Just Don’t Understand,” clearly shunning less commercial rap acts. Rappers ultimately boycotted the Grammys, and in solidarity, Sinéad sported the Public Enemy logo painted to the side of her head while she performed her hit single “Mandinka” that evening. A year after that, she had Public Enemy producer Hank Shocklee remix her single “Emperor’s New Clothes” off her follow-up album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got—which also includes her groundbreaking global smash “Nothing Compares 2 U,” written by Prince.

For Sinéad O’Connor, it was never about chasing the cool of hip-hop, it was fighting against the injustices perpetrated on its trailblazers. And it was beyond her recognition of her own white privilege or even the systemic racism that permeated throughout hip-hop culture (and still does to this day).

O’Connor acutely understood being in pain, and so much of hip-hop comes from the expression of pain. She may not have comprehended the pain that Black Americans had endured, but she wanted to help, and even in her pleas to ask the media to leave her alone and stop ripping her apart, she did the same for hip-hop.

In 1992, on an SNL stage—the same stage where she ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II on national television—O’Connor sang an a capella rendition of Bob Marley’s “War,” echoing the lines:

“Until the philosophy, which holds one race superior and another…inferior… is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned. Everywhere is war. That until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation. Until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. I’ve got to say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race. I’ve got to say war.”

For this reason, Chuck D saluted her on Twitter, and Ice-T wrote, “Respect to Sinead…She stood for something…Unlike most people…Rest Easy.” As hip-hop approaches 50, it mourns an artist who defended it when very few did. Sinéad O’Connor fought, she collaborated, she protested, and said “fuck you” when she had to.

If that isn’t hip-hop, then what is?

Photo caption: On February 22nd, 1989, it was the 31st Annual Grammy Awards. And Hip Hop was left out. Sinéad O'Connor, in Solidarity with Hip Hop Culture, and her standing up for us being alienated, would put Hip Hop Culture on screen at all cost if she could help it, wore the Public Enemy logo emblazoned on the side of her head, at The Grammy's.

Rest empowered Dear Sister

👑✊🏾👑 Sinéad O'Connor 👑✊🏾👑

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#in memoriam #sinead o'connor

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soulmusicsongs · 4 years

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Blind Bats And Swamp Rats - Johnny Jenkins (Ton-Ton Macoute!, 1970)

#1970 #ATCO #Soul #Soul Blues #Soul Music Songs #Soul Music #Music #Music Songs #Blind Bats And Swamp Rats #Johnny Jenkins #Ton-Ton Macoute!

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vinyl-connection · 4 years

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#1970 albums #roots and blues #CD collecting #Johnny Jenkins #Duane Allman #Ton-Ton Macoute!#blues funk

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mega2wheellife · 5 years

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never even left the compound

she went to Haiti

never left the compound

was told clear

its dirty & dangerous out there

never met the people

unless they were serving

the all-inclusive drinks

three hots & cleaning the room

saying yes ma’am

as all she wanted was warmth

a place to do nothing

recharge the batteries y’know?

no wish to explore the culture

understand the island of Hispaniola

the spirit of Erzulie Freda

had no chance to enter

the idea of ton tons meant nothing

& the plane home was great

a holiday right?

neil benbow

#savage-words #twcpoetry #poetry on tumblr #alt lit #haiti #hispaniola #erzulie #freda #warmth #batteries #natives #ton ton macoute #poets #writers #original writing #poetry (c)NAB neil benbow

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stilwaterskeeter · 5 years

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Saints Row Monster AU

Because it’s FUCKIN HALLOWEEN!!! And supernatural/monsters/magic AUs are something I’m kind of notorious for making with all the fandoms and communities I find myself in.

This is obviously just a rough outline of ideas, like what kind of monsters/magic users everyone is and a few other details. As well as a list of ideas I almost used/scrapped for something I liked better in the end. This also stands to be mostly what I’ll pull ideas and concepts from for any art/writing I do for October, and like if anything on here gives you inspiriration for something then go nuts!! I highly support that shit!! I don’t own these concepts, I just like thinking of them and I like sharing my ideas with y’all. Anyways if you do get ideas from this though I would love to see it so definitely like tag me in it or somethin’!!

Anyways, Monster Rights babey!!

Preface: This is mostly just like monster/supernatural concepts for characters, but if I think of like lore/story ideas relating to it all, then I’ll add it in, it’s just not much of a focus for this post

Saints Row 1:

Julius: Angel; driven by justice, determined to succeed where Ben failed

Troy: Werewolf

Johnny: Hellhound

Dex: Vampire

Lin: Fox Spirit

Aisha: Siren; like the singing mermaid type not the bird

Ben King: Fallen Angel; I don’t really have a given reaosn for this out side of it just fits to me, also the image of Ben with his massive fuckin wings during the scenes where Warren is giving him issues and stuff is...good. Also gives another thing Warren would probably look down on him for, since he fell he clearly isn’t fit to be their leader anymore /s

Tanya: Succubus

Warren: Werecoyote; is that a term? idk it is now

Big Tony: Minotaur

Donnie: Just a normal little dumb human with no magic

Joseph & Sharp: Gargoyles

Lopez Brothers: Werewolves

Luz: La Llorona

Victor: Cuco

Manuel Orejuela: Boto?; I really tried to find the name for this legend but I could not find what it’s called? It’s the one about the dolphins in the amazon turning into a handsome man/pretty woman to lure humans into the rivers?? you know

Tobias: Satyr

Laura: Witch; focuses mostly just in stuff like alchemy and potion making yknow

Mr. Wong: Mogwai

Chief Monroe: Black Knight; you know the haunted suit of armor

Jane Valderamma: Harpy

Saints Row 2:

Shaundi: Werehyena

Pierce: Siren; again the singing mermaid type, not the bird

Carlos: Jackalope

Maero & All the Brotherhood: Werewolves; I’m sorry but if you think otherwise you are just wrong. They’re entire thing is loyalty and wolves and sticking together like HELLO?

Becoming a werewolf (if not already one) is like part of the initiation to join the Brotherhood

Jessica: Born a human witch, turned into Werewolf by Maero (cause duh); she can still do some weak magic, but for the most part she’s no longer able to cast spells or anything

Matt: Werewolf on technicality; it’s pretty weak in him, he can’t transform or nothing, but he’s got like traits that still clearly show that he is a werewolf, like his teeth or his eyes or his appetite

Veteran Child: Faun

The General: Very powerful Warlock

Mr. Sunshine: Ton-Ton Macoute

Shogo: Kitsune; took after his mother with a slim chance, add it to the list of reasons his dad is disappointed in him for

Jyunichi: Shinigami

Kazuo: Mizuchi/Water Dragon

Dane Vogel: Faerie; he’s a diplomatic jerk who’s all about making deals and tricking people into his terms for his benefit, like c’mon

Saints Row the Third:

Loren: Vampire

Kiki & Viola DeWynter: Just regular ol’ Demons; everyone assumes succubi but no...just demons...

Angel: Werewolf

Kinzie: Banshee

Oleg: Yeti; duh?

Josh Birk: Human; he tries very hard to get a real vampire to turn him (not that any really do ever, I mean it’s not like they just go around all willy nilly turning people)

There’s probably a lot of controversy surrounding NyteBlayde about whether or not it’s harmful to real vampires or not. Most are at the very least, pretty reasonably upset to find that Josh Birk is not a vampire nor does he ever really turn irl despite his character.

Matt Miller: Vampire; loves NyteBlayde, thinks it’s actually really amazing story and show that has good social commentary “even if it’s unintentional”

Killbane: Earth Troll

Zimos: Incubus; as much as I hate even including him

Cyrus: Dragon

Kia: Ichneumon

STAG: Paramilitary unit made specifically to fight against the “dangerous” monsters/supernatural beings; dangerous being in quotes since yknow..

Jimmy Torbitson: Mad Scientist

Jenny Jaros: Nymph, probably like a Kissiae which is an ivy nymph

Genki: Chaos Demon, takes form as a Werecat because duh

Saints Row IV:

Asha: Hellhound

Scrapped Ideas:

Imp Johnny

Gorgon Kia

Satyr or Faun Carlos

Rock Golem Killbane

Ogre Killbane

Orc Cyrus

Satyr Pierce

Dragon Lin (ngl I’m still a little partial to this idea, but I couldn’t find any myths or anything that really fit her yknow?)

Chupacabra Lopez Brothers

#saints row #johnny gat #shaundi #pierce washington #matt miller #saints row 2 #saints row the third #kinzie kensington #carlos mendoza #troy bradshaw #julius little #viola dewynter #kiki dewynter #asha odekar #oleg kirrlov #stop talkin playa

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yesterdayandkarma · 5 years

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A revised and expanded version of Putin Ain’t Such a Bad Guy (a Draft Colloquy on CIA) by the esteemed and indefatigable poet and political philosopher Carlo Parcelli:

"Once you accept the fact that the CIA blew Jack Kennedy’s head off like a barn door in a cyclone, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you know the CIA organized the slaughter of a million Indonesians in 1965 and the assassination of that country’s elected president, Sukarno, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you realize the CIA supported the Indonesian invasion of East Timor leading to the slaughter of a quarter of a million Timorese, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you realize the CIA has interfered and/or rigged hundreds of democratic elections around the world, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you admit the CIA has overthrown and/or assassinated dozens of democratically elected officials, Putin ain't such a bad guy.

Once you realize the CIA has destabilized Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa resulting in the death of millions at the behest of transnational corporations, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you know the CIA ran a secret program funded in part by the Rockefeller and Ford foundations, to experiment with LSD on US citizens without their knowledge as well as research which included propaganda, brainwashing, public relations, advertising, hypnosis, and other forms of suggestion, all on their own people without their knowledge, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you know the CIA overthrew the elected president, Mohammed Mossadegh, in a coup in Iran in 1953 to secure that country’s oil and installed the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and funded and trained his murderous secret police, SAVAK, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you know the CIA overthrew Arbenz in a coup in Guatemala in 1954 leading to decades of slaughter and oppression, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you realize the CIA attempted the assassination of Charles de Gaulle – twice, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you grasp that the CIA attempted to murder Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt several times, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you acknowledge the CIA in 1961 assassinated its own creation, the murderous Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo because his business interests hreatened US corporate interests and only after thousands had been killed, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you understand the CIA in 1963 overthrew the democratically elected government of Juan Bosch again in the Dominican Republic because he favored modest land reform measures, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you realize that the CIA backed the tyrannical Somozas in Nicaragua and trained and funded their murderous death squads, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you admit that the CIA backed the despotic Duvalier’s in Haiti and trained and funded their murderous death squads, the Ton Ton Macoute, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you understand that the CIA backed the murderous ARENA party in El Salvador, were involved in the plot to kill 6 Jesuits, nuns and Archbishop Romero with death squads trained and funded by the US, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you know that the CIA overthrew the elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide in Haiti twice, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you know that the CIA used biological warfare in Cuba, forcing the hog population to be slaughtered twice, burned crops and poisoned water supplies causing hardship and starvation, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you realize that the CIA made dozens of attempts on Fidel Castro’s life and murdered dozens of Cuban officials, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you know that the US abetted the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1973 killing all 73 aboard and protected the perpetrators Juan Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles in Miami for decades, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you realize that the CIA was behind the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you realize that the CIA along with Hillary Clinton ran a coup against the elected government of Manuel Zelaya driving him from office, putting drug running oligarchs in power and reinvesting in that country’s abject misery. Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you understand the CIA ran dozens of front organizations used to spy on Americans in illegal violation of their charter, Putin ain’t so bad.

One you know The CIA’s man in Uruguay in 1969, Dan Mitrione, ran a torture campaign against the civilian population much like the Phoenix program in Southeast Asia and elsewhere, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you remember the CIA backed the coup in Chile that led to the death of that country’s president, Salvador Allende, Commander of the Army, Rene Schneider and poet Pablo Neruda and the murder and imprisonment of thousands of Chileans, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you know the CIA’s Phoenix Program resulted in the murder of tens of thousands of innocent people including local mayors, intellectuals, school teachers, doctors, farmers etc. as well as Viet Minh patriots, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you recall that the CIA ran heroin out of the Golden Triangle through the Phoenix Program as well as running cocaine out Colombia, Putin ain’t such a bad guy. Once you grasp that the CIA worked with the Nicaraguan Contras and Colombian drug government catel to bring crack cocaine into America and then murdered Gary Webb for having exposed them, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you realize the CIA ran the heroin out of the Golden triangle that US troops got hooked on in Vietnam and the streets of major American cities, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you realize the CIA ran a heroin processing operation out of an abandoned Pepsi Cola bottling plant in Vientiane, Laos, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you know, thanks to Seymour Hersh, the CIA ran Operation CHAOS, a domestic surveillance and infiltration of anti-war and civil rights groups in the U.S. in a clear violation of [LOL] US law, Putin ain't so bad.

Once you know the CIA’s people broke into the Watergate to tap the Democratic Party headquarters on behalf of the Republican candidate, Richard Nixon, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you’re aware the CIA wrote a Freedom Fighter’s Manual which was disbursed to the Nicaraguan Contras and included instructions on economic sabotage, propaganda, extortion, bribery, blackmail, interrogation, torture, murder and political assassination, Putin ain't so bad..

Once you understand the CIA ran a guns down, cocaine up operation out of South America during the period of Iran-contra to the present, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you realize that the CIA is responsible for Islamic fundamentalism having supported the Mujahadeen against the Soviet Union which led to the assassination of the liberal ruler Najibullah, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you recall the CIA blew Orlando Letelier and Toby Moffitt to pieces on a traffic circle in the heart of Washington DC, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you realize that the CIA murdered their own former CIA director, Bill Casey, while he lay ill in his hospital bed the day before he was to testify before congress about CIA crimes, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you note that the CIA drowned another of its former Directors, Bill Colby, because he did testify somewhat candidly before Congress. Once you are aware that the CIA murdered one of John Kennedy’s lovers, Mary Meyer, on the tow path along the C&O Canal in Washington DC to shut her up about CIA crimes, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you learn that the CIA gave Frank Olson LSD without his knowledge or consent and then when he became a ‘security risk’ pushed him out of a 13th story window of the Hotel Statler. Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you know that in 1963 the CIA murdered its own proxies, Diem and his brother, in Vietnam, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you realize the CIA failed to predict the most important event of the Cold War, the Fall of the Soviet Union, Putin ain’t such a bad guy at all.

Once you know that the CIA worked closely with that homicidal pus bag, Henry Kissinger, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you are aware that the CIA has ‘meddled’ in hundreds of democratic elections around the world, destabilizing, deposing, staging coups and killing elected officials they don’t like, Putin shouldn’t even be on your fuckin’ charts.

Once you realize Uncle Slimey’s CIA has a long and unbroken record of working with fascists, dictators, drug lords and state sponsors of terrorism in every region of the world in its elusive but relentless quest for unchallenged global power, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you know the CIA attempted coups in China from 1949 to early 1960s, Albania 1949-53, East Germany 1950s, Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, Costa Rica mid-1950s, Syria 1956-7, Egypt 1957, Indonesia 1957-8, British Guiana 1953-64, Putin ain’t so bad.

Once you realize the CIA staged coups in Iraq 1963, North Vietnam 1945-73, Cambodia 1955-70, Laos 1958, 1959 , 1960, Ecuador 1960-63, Congo 1960, France 1965, Brazil 1962-64, Dominican Republic 1963, Cuba 1959 to the present, Bolivia 1964, Indonesia 1965, Ghana 1966, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you accept the CIA staged coups in Chile 1964-73, Greece 1967, Costa Rica 1970-71, Bolivia 1971, Australia 1973-75, Angola 1975, 1980s, Zaire 1975, Portugal 1974-76, Jamaica 1976-80, Seychelles 1979-81, Chad 1981-82, Grenada 1983, South Yemen 1982-84, Suriname 1982-84, Fiji 1987, Libya 1980s, Nicaragua 1981-90, Panama 1989, Bulgaria 1990, Albania 1991, Iraq 1991, Afghanistan 1980s, Somalia 1993, Yugoslavia 1999-2000, Ecuador 2000, Afghanistan 2001, Venezuela 2002, Iraq 2003, Haiti 2004, Somalia 2007 to present, Honduras 2009, Libya 2011, Syria 2012 and Ukraine 2014, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

Once you understand the above represents only the tiniest fraction of CIA murders and lies, Putin ain’t such a bad guy.

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