Debt Rattle August 29 2025
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The headline and article about Wal-Mart was written 48 years after 1962, by “Steve DeBellis, the deliberately eccentric publisher of a tabloid that reported decades-old stories as if they happened yesterday, under headlines that defied passersby to ignore them… Typical of Mr. DeBellis’ wit and dramatic flair was a World War II story about a surprise attack on skinny-dipping Germans headlined “Greeks Battle Nude Nazis.” The story appeared in the first edition in 1986 of The St. Louis Enquirer, renamed The St. Louis Globe-Democrat after the daily’s demise.”
“He claimed his bi-monthly was “the world’s largest one-man newspaper” because he researched, wrote (always in longhand) and edited the retro newspaper. It was only available in newsprint; there is no digital version of the paper.”
“The Enquirer name was dropped 12 years after the long-time Globe-Democrat ceased publishing. He even used the Globe’s distinctive masthead along with his tagline: “Where history repeats itself.”
“With any trademark you have to use it or lose it,” he told the Post-Dispatch in 1998. “And no newspaper had been published under that name for 12 years.”
So he changed the name of his free paper from The St. Louis Enquirer to The St. Louis Globe-Democrat after the original Globe-Democrat ceased publication and abandoned its trademark.
“To the amazement of his friends in the journalism business, he said the paper turned a profit with the third issue.”
The other companies mentioned, Woolco, Target, and Kmart, all opened their first stores in 1962, along with Walmart.
A crowded year for discount retail
Walmart wasn’t alone when it entered the discount market in 1962. That same year, Kmart, Target, and Woolco also opened their first stores, each aiming to offer department-store goods at lower prices.
But while Kmart and Target focused on urban and suburban areas, Walmart founder Sam Walton zeroed in on rural towns overlooked by competitors. That geographic focus helped Walmart grow quickly—without fighting for space in crowded markets.
A real newspaper article from March 1962 has the title “Cuba has Missile Sites”, four months before the first Walmart store was opened.
This article was written by Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott, the two reporters who were the targets of the warrantless wiretaps of Project Mockingbird, according to Wikipedia (FWIW).
Project Mockingbird, a telephone intercept activity, was conducted between 12 March 1963 and 15 June 1963, and targeted two Washington based newsmen who, at the time, had been publishing news articles based on, and frequently quoting, classified materials of this Agency and others, including Top Secret and Special Intelligence.
According to the declassified documents, the order for warrantless wiretaps came from Director of Central Intelligence John McCone[12] who coordinated with United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Joseph Carroll.[11] The program was run by the Office of Security, headed by Sheffield Edwards, who received their orders from McCone.[7] Other Agency personnel included Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Marshall Carter, executive director-comptroller Lyman Kirkpatrick, general counsel Lawrence Houston, and McCone’s executive assistant Walter Elder.[7] An internal CIA biography of McCone by CIA Chief Historian David Robarge, made public under a FOIA request, identified the two reporters as Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott. Their syndicated column, “The Allen-Scott Report,” appeared in as many as three hundred papers at the height of its popularity.
The article’s writer Robert S. Allen has some interesting history listed in his Wikipedia entry (FWIW).
He changed his name and lied about his age in order to join the military…and served in the cavalry during the Pancho Villa Expedition of 1916–17 and in France during World War I… He joined the Ku Klux Klan in order to write an exposé about them, and was studying in Munich at the time of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch (1923)…
In 1933, Allen worked as a Soviet agent (Sh/147) for $100 a month… this was legal for Allen to do, being prior to the passage of the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act, and his motivation is unknown.
In 1933, Allen was a fully recruited and undoubtedly witting Soviet agent. Under the assigned cover name of “George Parker,” he covertly exchanged privileged information for money. He provided the Soviets with intelligence about Japanese military fortifications; news about potential appointments in the incoming Roosevelt administration; and information about the US government’s plans for diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union.
In 1937, during the court-packing controversy, Allen and Pearson co-authored the book The Nine Old Men, about the U.S. Supreme Court…
He served on General Patton’s staff in World War II, reaching the rank of colonel. During a reconnaissance mission, Allen lost his right arm in combat fire…
In 1947, he edited the book Our Fair City, an exposé of corrupt conditions in American municipalities…
According to documents released by the CIA in 2007, Allen was the subject of a wiretap operation, Project Mockingbird. Associated Press reported: “Under pressure from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy” in 1962, CIA director John McCone “agreed to tap the telephones of columnists Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott in an effort to identify their sources for classified information which was appearing in their columns,” says a memo a decade later to the agency’s director.”
Allen died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Georgetown on February 23, 1981, at age 80.”
The current Wikipedia entry for the Cuban Missile Crisis is upfront and emphatic about what it calls the US government’s “violent campaign of terrorism” in Cuba.
Starting in November of that year, the US government engaged in a violent campaign of terrorism and sabotage in Cuba, referred to as the Cuban Project, which continued throughout the first half of the 1960s…
The CIA recruited operatives on the island to carry out terrorism and sabotage, kill civilians, and cause economic damage… Following the failed invasion, the US massively escalated its sponsorship of terrorism against Cuba. Starting in late 1961, using the military and the CIA, the US government engaged in an extensive campaign of terrorism against civilian and military targets on the island. The terrorist attacks killed significant numbers of civilians. The US armed, trained, funded and directed the terrorists, most of whom were Cuban expatriates. Terrorist attacks were planned at the direction, and with the participation, of US government employees and launched from US territory… The terrorism campaign and the threat of invasion were crucial factors in the Soviet decision to place nuclear missiles on Cuba, and in the Cuban government’s decision to accept.
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