Sunday, August 28, 2011

Re: Mr. & Mrs. Clueless? (Or Not?)

Yeah, she is finally proud to be an American.

On Aug 28, 9:44 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Check out this photo....At first, I thought that maybe the photo was
> reversed, but unless President and Mrs. Obama both have their wedding rings
> on the wrong hand, and unless President Obama is now wearing his suit
> jackets like a woman's suit jacket,  the President and First Lady have their
> left hands crossing their chest, for the pledge of allegiance!
>
> Could it be that President Obama and his wife really have no experience
> saying the pledge of allegiance to the United States?  Or is it something
> far more sinister?
>
>  President.Mrs.Obama.PledgeOfAllegiance.jpg
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Re: CENSORED! Major radio stations will not play this song because it is 'politically incorrect'

I can't think of a major radio station that would play obvious "Jesus"
music other than a few country music outlets. They have formats.

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Re: Is Ron Paul A Useful Idiot?

The problem is not non-interventionists it is the absolute lack of a
clear and permanent definition of what should qualify the need for an
intervention. If the premise of a "clear and present danger" were to
be used it would have no detractors and we never would have been
involved in any war, conflict or police action since WW2. History
proves that none of these actions has solved anything.

As to Israel... I do wholeheartedly support them, I would never
support them by selling weapons (by front or back channels) to their
obvious enemies. Yet the US does just that.... The best way to win at
war is to NOT play.

Most US oil comes from the new world, Saudi Arabia (tell me why we
sell them weapons again) and Nigeria. If there is a problem to be
solved in the mid-East let those most affected do the solving....
Europe.

On Aug 28, 9:40 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Is Ron Paul A Useful Idiot?*
> **http://bigpeace.com/smitsotakis/2011/08/27/is-ron-paul-a-useful-idiot/
>
> Over at the American Spectator, the great Jeffrey Lord writes that "almost
> to a person … prominent pre-Ron Paul non-interventionist "Paulist"
> politicians of the 20th century were overwhelmingly not conservatives at
> all. They were men of the left. The far left."
>
> From three-time Democratic presidential nominee and Woodrow Wilson Secretary
> of State William Jennings Bryan to powerful Montana Democratic Senator
> Burton K. Wheeler to *FDR's ex-vice presidential nominee Henry Wallace* to
> the 1968 anti-war presidential candidacy of Minnesota Democratic Senator
> Eugene McCarthy to 1972 Democratic presidential nominee (and *Henry Wallace
> delegate in 1948*) George McGovern, non-interventionists have held prominent
> positions in the American Left that was and is the Democratic
> Party.(emphasis added)
>
> What was unique about Wallace's 1948 Progressive Party campaign was how it
> was completely controlled by the secret Communist Party agents that
> surrounded Wallace, despite the fact that he was not a Communist. Lillian
> Hellman, who despite her denials was indeed a secret member of the Communist
> Party, admitted as much in her 1976 book *Scoundrel Time*:
>
> During the early autumn of 1948, four or five of us [leaders of the
> Progressive Party campaign] were eating lunch together on the day of a large
> evening rally. When lunch was finished Wallace suggested that he and I take
> a walk. … When we had walked for a while, he asked me if it was true that
> many of the people, the important people, in the Progressive Party were
> Communists. It was such a surprising question that I laughed and said most
> certainly it was true.
> He said, "Then it is true, what they're saying?"
> "Yes," I said. "I thought you must have known that. The hard, dirty work in
> the office is done by them and a good deal of the bad advice you're getting
> is given by the higher-ups. I don't think they mean any harm; they're
> stubborn men."
> "I see," he said, and that was that.
>
> What is clear is that the Communists – who, of course, did mean harm – were
> able to drive the campaign of a non-Communist due to their *influence*. And
> Wallace knew it, despite his public denials. As Arthur Herman pointed out in
> *National Review* "when Hubert Humphrey complained about the prominent role
> Communists were playing in the election, Wallace blithely told him to go
> talk to the Russian embassy — it had more influence over his campaign
> officials than he did."
>
> So if it can happen to Henry Wallace, why can't it happen to his Republican
> mirror, Ron Paul? On Thursday, Mark Levin had Jeffrey Lord on his show to
> talk about his article (listen to it here, here and here), where they
> discussed all the crackpots and "neo-confederates" that surround Ron Paul in
> his inner circle. What would a group like think of, say, Israel?
>
> Well, on his own website, we find that: "On January 9, [2009] Ron Paul
> addressed Congress to voice his opposition to a House resolution expressing
> strong support for Israel in its invasion of Gaza, and branding Hamas as a
> terrorist organization." It goes on to proudly highlight that he went on
> Press TV (the Iranian state propaganda channel) and Russia Today (KGB-TV
> basically, with it's paid agents promoting and even doing fund-raising for
> Ron Paul).
>
> Anyone who has spent time around his supporters know what they think of
> Israel, and likely had to hear the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that are
> so widespread in his little cult. What is their influence? Why doesn't he
> denounce them? Also, such a denunciation would have a devastating impact
> both the national and international crackpot communities that sustain
> anti-Americanism, as the great Cold War era defector and former KGB General
> turned American Patriot Ion Mihai Pacepa explained. Wouldn't that be in our
> national interest, Dr. Paul?
>
> I await my hate mail.
>
>  RonPaul.Hippie..jpg
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Re: Ron Paul: The GOP’s Henry Wallace

Funny that Congressman Paul fancies himself a new Ronald Reagan,
because it
was Reagan's pro-military investments which made the Bin Laden raid
possible<http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/
571447/201105061854/..
.>,
plus much more. In fact, when Russert asked Dr. Paul about a 1988
statement
made by Paul against Reagan, when Paul had proclaimed, "I want to
totally
disassociate myself from the Reagan administration," the congressman
didn't
back off. Paul declared Reagan had been "a failure."

It was Reagans policies that created, trained and armed bin Laden...
that is an undeniable fact. Every country involved in the treasonous
yet all too easily dismissed Iran - Contra affair is doing better
today than then with one exception.... the USA.

Preemptive strikes whether overt or covert always have been and always
will be eventual failures. People just don't like them. Yes, they may
not like their dictator.... but he is THEIR dictator...one of them.

As far as Iran, Paul has it right... just what part of the fact that
the word SOVEREIGN applies to every country just as it does to the USA
don't you get??????????????????????????? They can do and or produce
what they want within their borders, they can trade with who they want
just as the USA can.

Most countries have a far better grasp of trade and foreign affairs
and all the lasting implications than the USA does. Very few knee jerk
like gringos.

Ever since the Germans ill-fated foray into Romania oil has been at
the forefront of every conflict including Vietnam (herbert hoover,
french indo-china reports) yet the USA does nothing to alleviate its
out of country dependence. (2/3 of all US imported oil comes from
Canadians ((2/3 of this same oil field is located in the US)) using a
process that the US companies claim is too expensive.... yet the gain
of the Canadian Dollar against US currency says it all)

Paul has it right.... most are just too blind to see it.

On Aug 28, 9:39 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Ron Paul: The GOP's Henry Wallace*
> **http://bigpeace.com/smitsotakis/2011/08/15/ron-paul-the-gops-henry-wa...
>
> The conspiracy-minded John Birch Society, long ago expelled from the
> conservative movement by Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley, Jr., is
> abuzz<http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/8572-ames-iowa-go...>over
> Congressman Ron Paul's "Blame America First" performance at Thursday
> night's Republican presidential debate.
>
> Oddly, it was Paul's bizarre assessment of a nuclear Iran that impressed
> Birchers—and his many devoted supporters. "Just think of how many nuclear
> weapons surround Iran," said Paul. "The Chinese are there. The Indians are
> there. The Pakistanis are there. The Israelis are there. The United States
> is there. All these countries … Why wouldn't it be natural if they might
> want a weapon? Internationally, they might be given more respect. Why should
> we write people off?"
> After arguing for Iran—the world's leading terror state for 30 years and
> counting—to have nukes, Paul next implored America to negotiate with these
> terrorists, citing examples from the Cold War, invoking Eisenhower in the
> 1950s and Reagan in the 1980s: "In the fifties, we at least talked to them
> [the Soviets]. At least our leaders and Reagan talked to the Soviets. What's
> so terribly bad about this? And countries you put sanctions on you are more
> likely to fight them. I say a policy of peace is free trade, stay out of
> their internal business, don't get involved in these wars and just bring our
> troops home."
>
> This disdain for strong action against America's enemies is nothing new for
> Ron Paul. A few months ago, he was asked his reaction to the elimination of
> Osama Bin Laden. His response? He stated that that the Navy SEAL raid on Bin
> Laden's hideout in Pakistan "was absolutely not necessary." Why? Because of
> the violation (alleged) of Pakistani sovereignty. Paul asked rhetorically
> "What if he [Osama] had been in a hotel in London?"
>
> Of course, Thursday was hardly the first time the libertarian congressman
> went out of his way to make excuses for America's enemies, or blame America
> first. In 2007, when asked by Tim Russert, "How have we, the United States,
> provoked al-Qaeda?" Paul responded: "Well, read what the lead—the ringleader
> says. Read what Osama bin Laden said. We had, we had a base, you know, in
> Saudi Arabia that was an affront to their religion, that was blasphemy as
> far as they were concerned."
>
> Funny that Congressman Paul fancies himself a new Ronald Reagan, because it
> was Reagan's pro-military investments which made the Bin Laden raid
> possible<http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/571447/201105061854/...>,
> plus much more. In fact, when Russert asked Dr. Paul about a 1988 statement
> made by Paul against Reagan, when Paul had proclaimed, "I want to totally
> disassociate myself from the Reagan administration," the congressman didn't
> back off. Paul declared Reagan had been "a failure."
>
> It is distressing to see such silliness having an appeal, especially among
> many college students, but, alas, it does.
>
> And yet, in an ironic twist of fate, what we as Republicans are experiencing
> has happened before, but it happened to Democrats. The Democrats of the
> post-war 1940s had to deal with their own version of Ron Paul: Henry
> Wallace.
>
> Like Dr. Paul, Wallace was a man of many great ideas. He was, in the words
> of Cold War historian Ronald Radosh, "an agricultural genius—a man who
> believed in the concept of scientific agriculture, and in the diligent
> agronomic use of statistical research; and in the diligent agronomic use of
> statistical research; and a scientist whose own research led him to develop
> and spread the process of hybrid corn—a process that revolutionized the
> yield of corn and led to an agricultural revolution."
>
> In short, agriculture was to Wallace what monetary policy is to Paul.
>
> Wallace served as secretary of agriculture and later vice president in the
> Roosevelt administration; that is, he did so until his weirdness and
> remarkable reverence for Stalin's Soviet Union prompted FDR to switch him
> with Harry Truman in the 1944 election, making Wallace his secretary of
> commerce.
>
> After FDR died, the new president, Truman, kept Wallace as secretary of
> commerce. With the war over, however, Wallace found himself in a tough spot.
> Troubled by the onset of the Cold War, he was driven to speak out on
> September 1946, and denounce the new threat to world peace: that is, the
> threat posed by America and *Truman* to that amiable peacenik Joe Stalin.
> Shortly thereafter, Wallace was removed from his position.
>
> Importantly, Wallace was far from finished. Like Ron Paul, Wallace steadily
> denounced American foreign policy, as pursued by both Democrats and
> Republicans—and he pursued the presidency.
>
> Like Ron Paul, Wallace would not let those World War III seeking
> "Imperialists" working in the interests of "British Colonialism" get off
> easy. (For Paul today, replace the words "Imperialists" with "Neo-cons" and
> "British Colonialism" with "Israel.") And when Stalin would do something
> unpleasant, such as take over Czechoslovakia in February of 1948, Wallace
> would explain that it was Truman's fault. Wallace blamed America first, in
> spite of the blatantly aggressive actions of an obvious external enemy.
>
> Thus, Wallace and some of his old friends from the Department of Agriculture
> started their own version of Paul's "Campaign for Liberty." They called
> themselves "Progressive Citizens of America." Wallace's supporters believed
> that the U.S. government was behind a conspiracy to create worldwide crises
> in order to subvert and dominate other nations for American imperial
> purposes. They insisted that "innocent" people, like Alger Hiss, were being
> unjustly persecuted. This group later morphed into the Progressive Party,
> from which Wallace would challange Truman for the presidency in 1948.
>
> In 1948, presidential candidate Wallace proclaimed: "There is no real fight
> between a Truman and a Republican. Both stand for a policy which opens the
> door to war in our lifetime and makes war certain for our children. … The
> American people read of the fantastic appropriations that are being made for
> military adventures in Greece, Turkey, China—and billions for armaments here
> at home. … Two years ago I denounced those who were talking up World War III
> as criminals. Of course, the bulk of our people are not criminals, but it is
> possible for a little handful of warmongers to stampede them."
>
> And with his comrades, men like Harry Magdoff, Victor Perlo, and Charles
> Kramer, Wallace set out to win the presidency in 1948. His comrades failed
> to disclose to Wallace their other names, to wit: KANT (Magdoff), RAIDER
> (Perlo), and PLUMB (Kramer)—their code names as Soviet agents.
>
> If it isn't obvious by now, what had happened was that Wallace had been
> duped, and much to most of his party was controlled or influenced by the
> Communist Party. It took Wallace two more years after suffering a
> humiliating defeat in that election, and watching as the so-called
> Progressive Party backed the communists against American troops in Korea,
> for him to realize what was going on, whereby he denounced his own party and
> resigned.
>
> But the impact of that campaign went far beyond its time. In a review on the
> back cover of a first edition copy of Curtis Macdougall's "Gideon's Army," a
> KGB-published <http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Marzani&Munsell-rpt.pdf> book
> (1965) about the Progressive Party, radical left-wing academic StaughtonLynd wrote: "There might have been no Bay of Pigs, no Vietnam, no Santo
>
> Domingo if the ideas of the third party of 1948 had prevailed … those ideas
> of 1948 are alive today." Just as Ron Paul, when asked by Tim Russert,
> "Under President Paul, if North Korea invaded South Korea, would we
> respond?" Paul promised he would not have. "Why should we unless the
> Congress declared war?" responded Paul. "I mean, why are we there? South
> Korea, they're begging and pleading to unify their country, and we get in
> their way. They want to build bridges and go back and forth. Vietnam, we
> left under the worst of circumstances. The country is unified. They have
> become Westernized. We trade with them. Their president comes here. And
> Korea, we stayed there and look at the mess."
>
> Needless to say, Ron Paul's commendable embrace of free-market principles in
> no way makes him sympathetic to Soviet communism, as was the case for Henry
> Wallace. Ron Paul is obviously not pro-Soviet or pro-communist—quite the
> contrary. The commonality is each man's breathtakingly bad positions on
> foreign policy and America's enemies. And unfortunately for Ron Paul, it
> will be that twisted view of foreign policy that forever keeps him from his
> party's nomination and the White House—just as it did Henry Wallace.
>
> *Spyridon Mitsotakis is a student at New York University, and an aspiring
> Cold War researcher.*
>
>  HenryWallace.jpg
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>
>  RonPaul.Iowa..jpg
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Mr. & Mrs. Clueless? (Or Not?)

Check out this photo....At first, I thought that maybe the photo was reversed, but unless President and Mrs. Obama both have their wedding rings on the wrong hand, and unless President Obama is now wearing his suit jackets like a woman's suit jacket,  the President and First Lady have their left hands crossing their chest, for the pledge of allegiance! 
 
Could it be that President Obama and his wife really have no experience saying the pledge of allegiance to the United States?  Or is it something far more sinister?
 
 

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Is Ron Paul A Useful Idiot?

Is Ron Paul A Useful Idiot?
 
 
Over at the American Spectator, the great Jeffrey Lord writes that "almost to a person … prominent pre-Ron Paul non-interventionist "Paulist" politicians of the 20th century were overwhelmingly not conservatives at all. They were men of the left. The far left."

From three-time Democratic presidential nominee and Woodrow Wilson Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan to powerful Montana Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler to FDR's ex-vice presidential nominee Henry Wallace to the 1968 anti-war presidential candidacy of Minnesota Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy to 1972 Democratic presidential nominee (and Henry Wallace delegate in 1948) George McGovern, non-interventionists have held prominent positions in the American Left that was and is the Democratic Party.(emphasis added)

What was unique about Wallace's 1948 Progressive Party campaign was how it was completely controlled by the secret Communist Party agents that surrounded Wallace, despite the fact that he was not a Communist. Lillian Hellman, who despite her denials was indeed a secret member of the Communist Party, admitted as much in her 1976 book Scoundrel Time:

During the early autumn of 1948, four or five of us [leaders of the Progressive Party campaign] were eating lunch together on the day of a large evening rally. When lunch was finished Wallace suggested that he and I take a walk. … When we had walked for a while, he asked me if it was true that many of the people, the important people, in the Progressive Party were Communists. It was such a surprising question that I laughed and said most certainly it was true.
He said, "Then it is true, what they're saying?"
"Yes," I said. "I thought you must have known that. The hard, dirty work in the office is done by them and a good deal of the bad advice you're getting is given by the higher-ups. I don't think they mean any harm; they're stubborn men."
"I see," he said, and that was that.

What is clear is that the Communists – who, of course, did mean harm – were able to drive the campaign of a non-Communist due to their influence. And Wallace knew it, despite his public denials. As Arthur Herman pointed out in National Review "when Hubert Humphrey complained about the prominent role Communists were playing in the election, Wallace blithely told him to go talk to the Russian embassy — it had more influence over his campaign officials than he did."

So if it can happen to Henry Wallace, why can't it happen to his Republican mirror, Ron Paul? On Thursday, Mark Levin had Jeffrey Lord on his show to talk about his article (listen to it here, here and here), where they discussed all the crackpots and "neo-confederates" that surround Ron Paul in his inner circle. What would a group like think of, say, Israel?

Well, on his own website, we find that: "On January 9, [2009] Ron Paul addressed Congress to voice his opposition to a House resolution expressing strong support for Israel in its invasion of Gaza, and branding Hamas as a terrorist organization." It goes on to proudly highlight that he went on Press TV (the Iranian state propaganda channel) and Russia Today (KGB-TV basically, with it's paid agents promoting and even doing fund-raising for Ron Paul).

Anyone who has spent time around his supporters know what they think of Israel, and likely had to hear the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that are so widespread in his little cult. What is their influence? Why doesn't he denounce them? Also, such a denunciation would have a devastating impact both the national and international crackpot communities that sustain anti-Americanism, as the great Cold War era defector and former KGB General turned American Patriot Ion Mihai Pacepa explained. Wouldn't that be in our national interest, Dr. Paul?

I await my hate mail.

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Ron Paul: The GOP’s Henry Wallace

Ron Paul: The GOP's Henry Wallace
 
 
The conspiracy-minded John Birch Society, long ago expelled from the conservative movement by Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley, Jr., is abuzz over Congressman Ron Paul's "Blame America First" performance at Thursday night's Republican presidential debate.

Oddly, it was Paul's bizarre assessment of a nuclear Iran that impressed Birchers—and his many devoted supporters. "Just think of how many nuclear weapons surround Iran," said Paul. "The Chinese are there. The Indians are there. The Pakistanis are there. The Israelis are there. The United States is there. All these countries … Why wouldn't it be natural if they might want a weapon? Internationally, they might be given more respect. Why should we write people off?"

After arguing for Iran—the world's leading terror state for 30 years and counting—to have nukes, Paul next implored America to negotiate with these terrorists, citing examples from the Cold War, invoking Eisenhower in the 1950s and Reagan in the 1980s: "In the fifties, we at least talked to them [the Soviets]. At least our leaders and Reagan talked to the Soviets. What's so terribly bad about this? And countries you put sanctions on you are more likely to fight them. I say a policy of peace is free trade, stay out of their internal business, don't get involved in these wars and just bring our troops home."
 

This disdain for strong action against America's enemies is nothing new for Ron Paul. A few months ago, he was asked his reaction to the elimination of Osama Bin Laden. His response? He stated that that the Navy SEAL raid on Bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan "was absolutely not necessary." Why? Because of the violation (alleged) of Pakistani sovereignty. Paul asked rhetorically "What if he [Osama] had been in a hotel in London?"

Of course, Thursday was hardly the first time the libertarian congressman went out of his way to make excuses for America's enemies, or blame America first. In 2007, when asked by Tim Russert, "How have we, the United States, provoked al-Qaeda?" Paul responded: "Well, read what the lead—the ringleader says. Read what Osama bin Laden said. We had, we had a base, you know, in Saudi Arabia that was an affront to their religion, that was blasphemy as far as they were concerned."

Funny that Congressman Paul fancies himself a new Ronald Reagan, because it was Reagan's pro-military investments which made the Bin Laden raid possible, plus much more. In fact, when Russert asked Dr. Paul about a 1988 statement made by Paul against Reagan, when Paul had proclaimed, "I want to totally disassociate myself from the Reagan administration," the congressman didn't back off. Paul declared Reagan had been "a failure."

It is distressing to see such silliness having an appeal, especially among many college students, but, alas, it does.

And yet, in an ironic twist of fate, what we as Republicans are experiencing has happened before, but it happened to Democrats. The Democrats of the post-war 1940s had to deal with their own version of Ron Paul: Henry Wallace.

Like Dr. Paul, Wallace was a man of many great ideas. He was, in the words of Cold War historian Ronald Radosh, "an agricultural genius—a man who believed in the concept of scientific agriculture, and in the diligent agronomic use of statistical research; and in the diligent agronomic use of statistical research; and a scientist whose own research led him to develop and spread the process of hybrid corn—a process that revolutionized the yield of corn and led to an agricultural revolution."

In short, agriculture was to Wallace what monetary policy is to Paul.

Wallace served as secretary of agriculture and later vice president in the Roosevelt administration; that is, he did so until his weirdness and remarkable reverence for Stalin's Soviet Union prompted FDR to switch him with Harry Truman in the 1944 election, making Wallace his secretary of commerce.

After FDR died, the new president, Truman, kept Wallace as secretary of commerce. With the war over, however, Wallace found himself in a tough spot. Troubled by the onset of the Cold War, he was driven to speak out on September 1946, and denounce the new threat to world peace: that is, the threat posed by America and Truman to that amiable peacenik Joe Stalin. Shortly thereafter, Wallace was removed from his position.

Importantly, Wallace was far from finished. Like Ron Paul, Wallace steadily denounced American foreign policy, as pursued by both Democrats and Republicans—and he pursued the presidency.

Like Ron Paul, Wallace would not let those World War III seeking "Imperialists" working in the interests of "British Colonialism" get off easy. (For Paul today, replace the words "Imperialists" with "Neo-cons" and "British Colonialism" with "Israel.") And when Stalin would do something unpleasant, such as take over Czechoslovakia in February of 1948, Wallace would explain that it was Truman's fault. Wallace blamed America first, in spite of the blatantly aggressive actions of an obvious external enemy.

Thus, Wallace and some of his old friends from the Department of Agriculture started their own version of Paul's "Campaign for Liberty." They called themselves "Progressive Citizens of America." Wallace's supporters believed that the U.S. government was behind a conspiracy to create worldwide crises in order to subvert and dominate other nations for American imperial purposes. They insisted that "innocent" people, like Alger Hiss, were being unjustly persecuted. This group later morphed into the Progressive Party, from which Wallace would challange Truman for the presidency in 1948.

In 1948, presidential candidate Wallace proclaimed: "There is no real fight between a Truman and a Republican. Both stand for a policy which opens the door to war in our lifetime and makes war certain for our children. … The American people read of the fantastic appropriations that are being made for military adventures in Greece, Turkey, China—and billions for armaments here at home. … Two years ago I denounced those who were talking up World War III as criminals. Of course, the bulk of our people are not criminals, but it is possible for a little handful of warmongers to stampede them."

And with his comrades, men like Harry Magdoff, Victor Perlo, and Charles Kramer, Wallace set out to win the presidency in 1948. His comrades failed to disclose to Wallace their other names, to wit: KANT (Magdoff), RAIDER (Perlo), and PLUMB (Kramer)—their code names as Soviet agents.

If it isn't obvious by now, what had happened was that Wallace had been duped, and much to most of his party was controlled or influenced by the Communist Party. It took Wallace two more years after suffering a humiliating defeat in that election, and watching as the so-called Progressive Party backed the communists against American troops in Korea, for him to realize what was going on, whereby he denounced his own party and resigned.

But the impact of that campaign went far beyond its time. In a review on the back cover of a first edition copy of Curtis Macdougall's "Gideon's Army," a KGB-published book (1965) about the Progressive Party, radical left-wing academic Staughton Lynd wrote: "There might have been no Bay of Pigs, no Vietnam, no Santo Domingo if the ideas of the third party of 1948 had prevailed … those ideas of 1948 are alive today." Just as Ron Paul, when asked by Tim Russert, "Under President Paul, if North Korea invaded South Korea, would we respond?" Paul promised he would not have. "Why should we unless the Congress declared war?" responded Paul. "I mean, why are we there? South Korea, they're begging and pleading to unify their country, and we get in their way. They want to build bridges and go back and forth. Vietnam, we left under the worst of circumstances. The country is unified. They have become Westernized. We trade with them. Their president comes here. And Korea, we stayed there and look at the mess."

Needless to say, Ron Paul's commendable embrace of free-market principles in no way makes him sympathetic to Soviet communism, as was the case for Henry Wallace. Ron Paul is obviously not pro-Soviet or pro-communist—quite the contrary. The commonality is each man's breathtakingly bad positions on foreign policy and America's enemies. And unfortunately for Ron Paul, it will be that twisted view of foreign policy that forever keeps him from his party's nomination and the White House—just as it did Henry Wallace.

Spyridon Mitsotakis is a student at New York University, and an aspiring Cold War researcher.

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Re: 1 Mil Safety Violations Won’t Keep Mexican Trucks Out Of U.S.

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1 Mil Safety Violations Won't Keep Mexican Trucks Out Of U.S.

Judicial Watch 8/26/2011 Weeks before the Obama Administration starts letting Mexican cargo trucks travel deep into the U.S., the Texas Department of Public Safety reveals that, in the last few years, trucks coming from Mexico had more than 1 million safety violations. This is hardly earth-shattering news since Mexican trucks have long failed to meet [...]

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Native Son Scrapes by


Native Son Scrapes by
Posted on August 27, 2011 by LHRJr.

Herman Cain of Georgia barely edges out Ron Paul in the Georgia straw poll:

– Herman Cain, 232 or 26 percent;
– Ron Paul, 229 or 25.7 percent;
– Rick Perry, 179 or 20 percent;
– Newt Gingrich, 162 or 18 percent;
– Mitt Romney, 51 or 6 percent;
– Michele Bachman, 29 or 3 percent;
– Rick Santorum, 4 or .4 percent
– Jon Huntsman, 3 or .3 percent;
– Thad McCotter, 1 or .1 percent;
– Buddy Roemer, 0;
– Gary Johnson, 0.

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1 Mil Safety Violations Won’t Keep Mexican Trucks Out Of U.S.




1 Mil Safety Violations Won't Keep Mexican Trucks Out Of U.S.

Judicial Watch 8/26/2011 Weeks before the Obama Administration starts letting Mexican cargo trucks travel deep into the U.S., the Texas Department of Public Safety reveals that, in the last few years, trucks coming from Mexico had more than 1 million safety violations. This is hardly earth-shattering news since Mexican trucks have long failed to meet [...]

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Qadaffy Escapes to Algeria in Bullet-proof Mercedes









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Gadhafi and sons escape to Algeria in bullet-proof Mercedes

Algeria at odds with Libyan rebel transitional government, demanding an apology for accusing Algeria of supplying Gadhafi loyalists with troops and arms • Raging battles still taking place in Tripoli • Mass graves discovered.

Daniel Siryoti

 

Removing bodies of Gadhafi loyalists Saturday.

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After days of hiding following the Libyan rebels' seizure of his Bab al-Aziziya compound, former Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi was reportedly spirited across the Algerian border with his sons, Egyptian and Libyan news agencies said on Saturday. According to the reports, the former leader was whisked out of Libya in a convoy of bullet-proof Mercedes vehicles on Friday night.

The convoy allegedly consisted of six vehicles and was accompanied by Libyan troops loyal to Gadhafi.

Libyan and Algerian officials refused to comment on the reports.

Tension between Algerian and Libyan rebels

The Algerian government is at odds with the Libyan rebels' transitional government, demanding the rebels apologize for accusing Algeria of supplying Gadhafi loyalists with troops and arms.

In addition, an Algerian government spokesperson claimed to have evidence of Libyan rebels freeing and arming Libyan prisoners who were extradited by Algeria upon Gadhafi's request. The extradition was carried out within the framework of Gadhafi's struggle against terrorist groups with bases in Libya, including al-Qaida. According to Algerian officials, the freed prisoners joined the Libyan rebels in fighting Gadhafi.

A senior Algerian official told the Saudi Arabian daily Al Arabia that Algeria has not yet recognized the transitional Libyan government as representative of the Libyan people. "If the rebels want Algeria to recognize their rule in Libya they must present a plan of action against al-Qaida, which is active throughout North Africa, and they must commit to fighting terrorists operating from within Libya," the official said.

Mass graves discovered in Libya

Meanwhile, sporadic battles still raged on Friday and Saturday between the rebels and Gadhafi loyalists in Tripoli, even as the scale of the violence of the months-long uprising continued to unfold.

Mass graves, apparently containing bodies of opposition forces, were discovered over the weekend near a local hospital, and Sky News published photos of another mass grave found in a warehouse. The bodies found in the warehouse had been burned, but apparently were also of rebel fighters.

There were also reports of mass graves containing bodies of troops loyal to Gadhafi, who were allegedly killed by rebel forces.

 


 


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**JP** Letter to Editor - Swearing in AGP

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 LETTER TO EDITOR
August 28th, 2011

Swearing in AGP

At times one has to perform even the unpleasant task in the call of duty. So had the Honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to swallow his pride the other day when  he was made to administer the oath of office of the Auditor General of Pakistan to Mr. Akhter Buland Rana , probably against his best judgement and wishes.  Only two days before the CJP had written to the President about the alleged aspersions on the character and antecedents of Mr. Akhter Buland Rana and had asked  him to reconsider his decision in appointing him as the AGP.  It was no surprise to those who know when the president considered him (Rana Sahib) otherwise and as innocent as a child. The swearing in oath must be resting heavily on the conscience of the CJP for having done something he considered improper.  But, Your Honour, such are the dictates of the service – like it or not.

 

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**JP** Indian airforce's biggest enemy - IAF fighter pilots!!!! - a landmark achievement

The indian airforce is the biggest enemy of its own. It has set a record that no other airforce in the word can easily break. In the last 40 years it has crossed the landmark of crashing its 1000'th plane. It is some record!!!! One can blame the older planes and non-availability of spares for some of the crashes, but according to their own investigations nearly 40% of these crashes are due to pilot error and many cases are still under investigation. The list of crashes include 2 Sukhoi SU-30MK1 aircrafts and Mig-29s. I am wondering what the state of affairs be when indians will start getting more of these modern aircrafts..., when the cannot even fly the Mig-21s....


Indian efforts to produce its own aircraft has become a shame for their production facilities. It has been more than 3 decades and they are still struggling to induct their LCAs ... and now their new definition of 'indigenous' is 'anything that you can get hold of from any country wishing to export'. Now they are involving many foreign companies to help them fly it, that includes engines, and much more...by the time it is ready to fly in the airforce it would be an obsolete frame, with costs higher than the F-16s.... They are also planning to buy the famous 126 planes and short-listed eurofighter and french rafael ...the irony is, it will drain india its $20-30 billion dollars, and they will get a plane of the 90s, with no  AESA radar, planes for which Pakistan is already fine tuning its JF-17s Block II and the J-10s....the most cost effective planes in the world equipped with AESA radars.....and our military and Chinese are to be saluted for these low-cost, high quality achievements...!!!!!!

Long live Pakistan!

State Senator Tells Obama To Step Down Or Face Impeachment!




State Senator Tells Obama To Step Down Or Face Impeachment!

(EIRNS)—Kentucky State Sen. Perry Clark, (Democrat-District 37) issued a statement on Aug. 8, calling on President Obama to resign, or face impeachment. His statement has stirred up spirited debate, and inspired others around the country, as the actual content of Obama's policies and character increasingly hits home. Among other things, Clark writes:

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CENSORED! Major radio stations will not play this song because it is 'politically incorrect'




CENSORED! Major radio stations will not play this song because it is 'politically incorrect'

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'In God We Still Trust' is from a Las Vegas Diamond Rio concert. Because radio stations refuse to play it,  the song was never released to the public.

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Scientists Mock Main Stream Media's Fear Mongering Of East Coast So Called Hurricane: Barley A Tropical Storm!




Scientists Mock Main Stream Media's Fear Mongering Of East Coast So Called Hurricane: Barley A Tropical Storm!

NOAA's Phony "Hurricane" Coming On Shore With 33 MPH Winds NOAA claims the winds are 85 MPH, but none of the Weather Underground stations in the area report higher than 33 MPH winds. By definition, this is not a hurricane – and is just barely a tropical storm.

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