In 1973, the Chilean Army, under General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the left wing government of Salvador Allende. What amazed this Blogger, and still amazes this Blogger was the pent-up ferocity within the Chilean armed forces.  The Chilean Military had been a paragon of civic virtue, above coups. Yet it not only completed a successful, bloody coup against its own democratically elected  government, but the coup was particularly ferocious. The Chilean Military launched a SAVAGE coup; it is comparable to the well disciplined German Army of World War I, which not only invaded poor little Belgium, but raped poor little Belgium. Allende committed suicide. " SANTIAGO, Chile – A scientific autopsy has confirmed that Chilean President Salvador Allende committed suicide during the 1973 coup that toppled  his socialist government, court officials announced on Tuesday. British ballistics expert David Prayer said Allende died of two shots fired from an assault rifle th

On this May Day, let us remember the redneck American working class at its finest, THE BATTLE OF BLAIR MOUNTAIN. In general vernacular, the term redneck means a white share cropper, whose neck is turned red by working head down in the sun. To union people, redneck means something else. It refers to the battle of Blair Mountain, in West Virginia, when over ten thousand union members showed up with guns to protest working conditions, and fought a pitched battle with police and corporate private security. Over one million rounds of ammunition were fired.  The battle claimed the lives of over 100 people,killed.    The union people wore red scarves around their necks; they were known as rednecks. In those days, the red scarves around the neck of a union man meant he was prepared to kill. After a significant rise in union membership in Matewan, West Virginia, Baldwin-Felts agents, hired by corporations, arrived to oust union members from Stone Mountain Coal Company hous