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In Februray of this year he did a column asking is “Is Quinn Beatable? ”
Now that his ponderings have been answered e.g., the budget issue, lisa madigan etc.
I wonder if he can write a follow-up in light of all that has transpired since he wrote that Febuary column?
Given his performance, I think Pat Quinn is definitely beatable in 2010. His poor performance has shown that he was not up to the task of being governor. But, I am curious to read/hear what the political pundits make of him now, and to see if there is any consenus among them.
Tom Roeser is the Chairman of the Editorial Board at the Chicago Daily Observer
Re “The Venona Report certifies that White was a Soviet agent and that Truman knew it ”; in reality, an examination of the facts some 60 years on, shows that Harry Dexter White was working cooperatively with the representatives of the USSR at Bretton Woods and in DC at a time when he knew the FBI had him under close surveillance. Nonetheless, White had his instructions from the FDR White House, and those included a directive to show as much cooperation as possible with the Soviets. As a matter of fact, White believed implicitly in the very same idea as did most of the New Dealers, who thought that cooperation with Stalin after the war was a distinct possibility and one that the US should work toward while simultaneously pressuring Stalin through trade, foreign aid, cultural exchanges, and so forth. However, the death of FDR and the subsequent ascension of Truman brought a new breed of foreign policy into play, one that posited the resumption of direct confrontation with the USSR. Thus began the Cold War, the details of whose beginnings are eminently arguable.
During the New Deal, however, what White evidently didn’t know, and what most people didn’t know at the time, perhaps not even the FBI, was that a majority of Soviet functionaries in the US were in reality also KGB or GRU agents. Every member of a Soviet embassy, it is probably safe to say, was KGB trained if not actually an agent, just as every American embassy these days is in actuality the American espionage center in the country in which it is located and is loaded with, that is, staffed by, FBI, CIA, INR, and other espionage operatives.
Also important is the fact that in White’s day, working in Treasury was a Communist named Nathan Silvermaster, who was in reality also a Soviet agent of the most effective type and who headed a subgroup of Treasury and other government employees who were working with him. Several of those agents in Henry Morgenthau’s Treasury Department were hired on White’s say so because of their expertise in economics, but a complicating factor in this entire equation is that all employees of the federal government were supposed to have been vetted and cleared by the Justice Department, specifically by the FBI, that is, by J Edgar Hoover, noted for deporting aliens he didn’t like, taking the credit for catching bank robbers and kidnappers, while at the same time avoiding any investigation of the Mafia for reasons still unknown [Personally, I don't buy the ''photograph in a dress'' story --- he was an evil, closet case, power hungry son of a bitch, but he wasn't so dumb as to allow someone to take his picture while he was cavorting at a party]. Moreover, being a Communist in those days was perfectly legal. If Harry Dexter White was guilty of anything, it was of being naïve about the Russians, a condition that was also true of at least half the country, including apparently, the FBI and Hoover, whom FDR had directed in 1936 to “keep an eye on the Nazis and the Communists.”
As for White’s being a Soviet agent, why would such a person work as hard as White worked for the establishment of the capitalist World Bank and the International Monetary Fund if he were a Communist? The fact is, as his biographers point out, White was a firm anticommunist whose life’s work, as it turned out, was establishing the World Bank and the IMF, two institutions that still function today, whether you agree with their activities or not, as staunch promoters of corporate capitalism throughout the world.
That aside, one of the problems with the Venona transcripts is that many complications ensue from simplistic approaches to the Venona documents: some interpreters and analysts of Venona, for example, make little distinction between “agents” and “sources,” for instance,and the differences are important. Of the several and various types of agents readers also make little distinction. As to sources, one of the Soviets’ favorites and most frequently used was American newspapers and magazines. Especially the Washington papers and of course, the New York Times, but also publications like Popular Mechanics, Life, et al.
Human “sources” were differing and could range from oblivious dinner hostesses on the DC social circuit to political office holders, elected or otherwise; the transcripts listed Harry Hopkins, for example, as a source, and Dean Acheson, and scores of others whose loyalty to the USA is unimpeachable. However, a source was not a professional agent, but merely a person who could usually be relied upon to provide some type of information, whether casual or confidential, important or tangential. These people were not usually the sources for classified information but would happily give handouts to newspaper reporters or discuss nonconfidential, but sometimes confidential, information at dinners, for example. Other, more cooperative and willing ”sources” were people like [apparently] Larry Duggan who jumped, fell, or was pushed out of a very high window.
Further, naïve as our public and our government was in those days, the fact was that every government worth its salt, except perhaps our own, had espionage agents in every other major country and information gathering apparatuses that worked full time to keep their home governments informed about goings on on foreign shores. Although President Herbert Hoover’s Secretary of State [Stimson] noted that “Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail” when he ordered the return of a diplomatic pouch “intercepted” by Herbert Yardley, head of MI-8, aka the Cipher Bureau, the US espionage department at the time, the Soviets already had agents all over the world, just as the Tsar had had them for hundreds of years. Thus it should have come as no surprise to the British in the 1940s that Fuchs, Philby, et al. Had been hard at work in Britain for the USSR. Nor was it surprising to the USSR three decades earlier that Sidney Reilly, former Tsarist spy, was at work for the British in and on the USSR. Eventually, after the NKVD found Reilly out, they lured him back into the USSR, still working as he was for the British, and killed him, as we found out 50 years later.
A complicated subject, all of this, and with all of the nuances, shadings, complications, and complexities we should try to remember that people like Harry White were caught up in a web whose existence they were sometimes only half aware of.
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“The Gossip Clothing Boutique was created with a vision of fashion forward runway inspired clothing, worn for everyday occasions and captures the styles meant for the fashionista, whether she’s out on a date or dining with girlfriends”. With our trendy style, it’s our perfect blend of talked about fashions”, says self taught fashion consultant and President Cherille Miles.
We are proud to carry fashion favorites like Sharon Couture, Candy Couture, Derèon, and True Light with size XS-3X. We also carry handbags, accessories and personalized fragrances designed by perfumer Chantille Nicole.
At The Gossip Clothing Boutique customers are encouraged to get gossiped about….in a fashionable way. Our clothes are worn to get noticed and to fit any woman’s personality and fashion sense. What makes The Gossip Clothing Boutique stand out from the rest is that it offers unique, innovative styles of clothing, fragrances, and accessories that you will NOT find in your average department store or local boutique. With each item being highly exclusive, you can be almost assured that you will not be caught in a fashion frenzy wearing the same outfit as someone else.
The Gossip Clothing Boutique mission is to provide its customers with the trendiest fashion looks at an affordable price.
Having an eye for beauty and impeccable taste for fashion is what lead founder Chantille Covington and President Cherille Miles to a career in the fashion industry.
Chantille Covington is an entrepreneur and fashion consultant. Chantille became inspired with fashion by viewing up front and personal what famous celebrities were wearing while working at a Chicago-based television-talk show production company and working at various department stores such as Famous Barr, Bergner’s Sears, and Macy’s. Chantille Covington attended Northern Illinois University and majored in Business Management and is a member of the professional organization of Delta Sigma Pi.
Chantille Covington is currently based in Chicago, Illinois.
Cherille Miles President of The Gossip Clothing Boutique attended the Illinois Academy of Design and Technology in 2003. With her knowledge and expertise from her education Cherille became a beauty and fashion specialist for various retail stores such as Nordstrom, Agaci, Zara, and Macy’s and worked for many beauty companies such as Armani, Clinique and Fashion Fair.
Cherille Miles was born in Peoria, Illinois and is currently based in Chicago, Illinois.
Founder Chantille Covington and President Cherille Miles are self taught fashion consultants based in Chicago, IL. For more information about The Gossip Clothing Boutique visit http://www.thegossipboutique.com.
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This is really a request for Russ Stewart.
In Februray of this year he did a column asking is “Is Quinn Beatable? ”
Now that his ponderings have been answered e.g., the budget issue, lisa madigan etc.
I wonder if he can write a follow-up in light of all that has transpired since he wrote that Febuary column?
Given his performance, I think Pat Quinn is definitely beatable in 2010. His poor performance has shown that he was not up to the task of being governor. But, I am curious to read/hear what the political pundits make of him now, and to see if there is any consenus among them.
Thank you.
Harry Dexter White 07 21 09 Tom Roeser
http://www.cdobs.com/archive/featured/truman-as-cold-warrior-forgetting-the-history-to-score-political-points,41701
Tom Roeser is the Chairman of the Editorial Board at the Chicago Daily Observer
Re “The Venona Report certifies that White was a Soviet agent and that Truman knew it ”; in reality, an examination of the facts some 60 years on, shows that Harry Dexter White was working cooperatively with the representatives of the USSR at Bretton Woods and in DC at a time when he knew the FBI had him under close surveillance. Nonetheless, White had his instructions from the FDR White House, and those included a directive to show as much cooperation as possible with the Soviets. As a matter of fact, White believed implicitly in the very same idea as did most of the New Dealers, who thought that cooperation with Stalin after the war was a distinct possibility and one that the US should work toward while simultaneously pressuring Stalin through trade, foreign aid, cultural exchanges, and so forth. However, the death of FDR and the subsequent ascension of Truman brought a new breed of foreign policy into play, one that posited the resumption of direct confrontation with the USSR. Thus began the Cold War, the details of whose beginnings are eminently arguable.
During the New Deal, however, what White evidently didn’t know, and what most people didn’t know at the time, perhaps not even the FBI, was that a majority of Soviet functionaries in the US were in reality also KGB or GRU agents. Every member of a Soviet embassy, it is probably safe to say, was KGB trained if not actually an agent, just as every American embassy these days is in actuality the American espionage center in the country in which it is located and is loaded with, that is, staffed by, FBI, CIA, INR, and other espionage operatives.
Also important is the fact that in White’s day, working in Treasury was a Communist named Nathan Silvermaster, who was in reality also a Soviet agent of the most effective type and who headed a subgroup of Treasury and other government employees who were working with him. Several of those agents in Henry Morgenthau’s Treasury Department were hired on White’s say so because of their expertise in economics, but a complicating factor in this entire equation is that all employees of the federal government were supposed to have been vetted and cleared by the Justice Department, specifically by the FBI, that is, by J Edgar Hoover, noted for deporting aliens he didn’t like, taking the credit for catching bank robbers and kidnappers, while at the same time avoiding any investigation of the Mafia for reasons still unknown [Personally, I don't buy the ''photograph in a dress'' story --- he was an evil, closet case, power hungry son of a bitch, but he wasn't so dumb as to allow someone to take his picture while he was cavorting at a party]. Moreover, being a Communist in those days was perfectly legal. If Harry Dexter White was guilty of anything, it was of being naïve about the Russians, a condition that was also true of at least half the country, including apparently, the FBI and Hoover, whom FDR had directed in 1936 to “keep an eye on the Nazis and the Communists.”
As for White’s being a Soviet agent, why would such a person work as hard as White worked for the establishment of the capitalist World Bank and the International Monetary Fund if he were a Communist? The fact is, as his biographers point out, White was a firm anticommunist whose life’s work, as it turned out, was establishing the World Bank and the IMF, two institutions that still function today, whether you agree with their activities or not, as staunch promoters of corporate capitalism throughout the world.
That aside, one of the problems with the Venona transcripts is that many complications ensue from simplistic approaches to the Venona documents: some interpreters and analysts of Venona, for example, make little distinction between “agents” and “sources,” for instance,and the differences are important. Of the several and various types of agents readers also make little distinction. As to sources, one of the Soviets’ favorites and most frequently used was American newspapers and magazines. Especially the Washington papers and of course, the New York Times, but also publications like Popular Mechanics, Life, et al.
Human “sources” were differing and could range from oblivious dinner hostesses on the DC social circuit to political office holders, elected or otherwise; the transcripts listed Harry Hopkins, for example, as a source, and Dean Acheson, and scores of others whose loyalty to the USA is unimpeachable. However, a source was not a professional agent, but merely a person who could usually be relied upon to provide some type of information, whether casual or confidential, important or tangential. These people were not usually the sources for classified information but would happily give handouts to newspaper reporters or discuss nonconfidential, but sometimes confidential, information at dinners, for example. Other, more cooperative and willing ”sources” were people like [apparently] Larry Duggan who jumped, fell, or was pushed out of a very high window.
Further, naïve as our public and our government was in those days, the fact was that every government worth its salt, except perhaps our own, had espionage agents in every other major country and information gathering apparatuses that worked full time to keep their home governments informed about goings on on foreign shores. Although President Herbert Hoover’s Secretary of State [Stimson] noted that “Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail” when he ordered the return of a diplomatic pouch “intercepted” by Herbert Yardley, head of MI-8, aka the Cipher Bureau, the US espionage department at the time, the Soviets already had agents all over the world, just as the Tsar had had them for hundreds of years. Thus it should have come as no surprise to the British in the 1940s that Fuchs, Philby, et al. Had been hard at work in Britain for the USSR. Nor was it surprising to the USSR three decades earlier that Sidney Reilly, former Tsarist spy, was at work for the British in and on the USSR. Eventually, after the NKVD found Reilly out, they lured him back into the USSR, still working as he was for the British, and killed him, as we found out 50 years later.
A complicated subject, all of this, and with all of the nuances, shadings, complications, and complexities we should try to remember that people like Harry White were caught up in a web whose existence they were sometimes only half aware of.
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Westwood NJ
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Thousands of African Americans in Chicago are protesting the Census use of the word Negro and are refusing to send the forms back in!
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The Gossip Clothing Boutique launches a fashion movement
Chicago – (July 26, 2010) – Are your fashions being gossiped about? The Gossip Clothing Boutique founded by Chantille Covington and Cherille Miles, in 2010, is a unique clothing studio with a variety of exciting new, exclusive women’s apparel assured to fit the fashion needs of the fashion conscious female. It offers a true boutique experience without the expensive prices. The boutique is dedicated to offering customer’s innovative stylish clothing and a selection of other quality items all for under $30. The boutique’s primary focus is to maintain the ability to provide outstanding customer service and to maintain a fresh face, as new arrivals are stocked on a regular basis.
“The Gossip Clothing Boutique was created with a vision of fashion forward runway inspired clothing, worn for everyday occasions and captures the styles meant for the fashionista, whether she’s out on a date or dining with girlfriends”. With our trendy style, it’s our perfect blend of talked about fashions”, says self taught fashion consultant and President Cherille Miles.
We are proud to carry fashion favorites like Sharon Couture, Candy Couture, Derèon, and True Light with size XS-3X. We also carry handbags, accessories and personalized fragrances designed by perfumer Chantille Nicole.
At The Gossip Clothing Boutique customers are encouraged to get gossiped about….in a fashionable way. Our clothes are worn to get noticed and to fit any woman’s personality and fashion sense. What makes The Gossip Clothing Boutique stand out from the rest is that it offers unique, innovative styles of clothing, fragrances, and accessories that you will NOT find in your average department store or local boutique. With each item being highly exclusive, you can be almost assured that you will not be caught in a fashion frenzy wearing the same outfit as someone else.
The Gossip Clothing Boutique mission is to provide its customers with the trendiest fashion looks at an affordable price.
Having an eye for beauty and impeccable taste for fashion is what lead founder Chantille Covington and President Cherille Miles to a career in the fashion industry.
Chantille Covington is an entrepreneur and fashion consultant. Chantille became inspired with fashion by viewing up front and personal what famous celebrities were wearing while working at a Chicago-based television-talk show production company and working at various department stores such as Famous Barr, Bergner’s Sears, and Macy’s. Chantille Covington attended Northern Illinois University and majored in Business Management and is a member of the professional organization of Delta Sigma Pi.
Chantille Covington is currently based in Chicago, Illinois.
Cherille Miles President of The Gossip Clothing Boutique attended the Illinois Academy of Design and Technology in 2003. With her knowledge and expertise from her education Cherille became a beauty and fashion specialist for various retail stores such as Nordstrom, Agaci, Zara, and Macy’s and worked for many beauty companies such as Armani, Clinique and Fashion Fair.
Cherille Miles was born in Peoria, Illinois and is currently based in Chicago, Illinois.
Founder Chantille Covington and President Cherille Miles are self taught fashion consultants based in Chicago, IL. For more information about The Gossip Clothing Boutique visit http://www.thegossipboutique.com.
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