Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times - Day 2

Here are my notes from day 2. It's a closer look at the people in direct influence with Obama and his administration but it mainly focuses on the Czars.

Update from the first show: The White House called the show on the first day while it aired to tell them not to call the Czars, Czars. (I'm happy to know they're watching! I'll be curious to see if they try to ignore it and hope it goes away. It would be preferable if they would just answer the darn questions...) The White House also said that Van Jones was merely in charge of "job creation". (Hmmm...what kinds of jobs do communists create?)

During his presidential debates, Obama said to look at the people he associates himself with to get an idea of his belief system. At the time, he mentioned Warren Buffet, Paul Vogel, Joe Biden, Dick Luger, & General Jim Jones. Here we go, let's take his suggestion and take a look at the backgrounds of the people who he really surrounds himself with!

1. John Holdren - Science Czar - believes in forced abortions, has been quoted as saying "neither the declaration of independence nor the constitution declare the right to reproduce", referring to limits on children per household. (Please read the previous blog post to get many more shocking excerpts from his book regarding forced abortion, mandatory sterilization, and other radical forms of population control.)

2. Van Jones - Green Jobs Czar - admitted communist, founding member of STORM (see day 1) Here are a few quotes from Van Jones:In reference to a STORM 9/11 vigil: "The vigil was to be an expression of solidarity with Arab- & muslim-Americans & of mourning for the dead in New York and Washington, DC as well as the victims of US Imperialism around the world. The vigil, held in Oakland's Snow Park, drew hundreds (ooooh...hundreds) of people. There, STORM members articulated a strong, anti-imperialist line that resonated with everyday people there." (Sounds like someone who's very anti-American to me.)

"STORM developed & promoted a set of explicitly revolutionary ideas during a time when these politics were hard to find. While many people in our generation dismissed Marxism as inherently white & sectarian, we looked towards the revolutionary traditions of 3rd world communism & found valuable & inspiring models for revolutionary change."

"We found inspiration & guidance in the insurgent revolutionary strategies developed by 3rd world revolutionaries like Mao Tse-tung & Amilcar Cabral."

In short, there were nearly 20 million deaths from starvation in China under Tse-tung's reign during his "Great Leap Forward"...I am fascinated that anyone would be inspired by his reign and I plan to do some more research on Mao Tse-tung. I know absolutely nothing about the history of China, Taiwan, etc and would love to dig into it. I don't know much about Cabral except that he was a leader of the African Liberation Movement. Here's a quote from one of his seminars: "How is it that we, a people deprived of everything, living in dire straits, manage to wage our struggle and win successes? Our answer is this, because Lenin existed, because he fulfilled his duty as a man, a revolutionary, and a patriot. Lenin was, and continues to be, the greatest champion of the national liberation of the peoples." These two men were inspirational to Van Jones. The Van Jones who is now advising our president.

3. Cass Sunstein - Regulatory Czar - Proposed bans on hunting & eating meat. He would like to implement a Fairness Doctrine for the Internet (fairness doctrine will be explained in the next post). He also believes that dogs should have the right to an attorney. Enough said.

4. Carol Browner - Global Warming Czar - one of fourteen leaders on the Commission for a Sustainable World Society, a part of Socialist International, a group for global governing which says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change. (Are YOU for global governing? Has global warming been proven yet?)

5. Ezekial Emanual (Rahm's brother...Chicago cronyism, eh?) - Healthcare Advisor (AKA Death Czar) - a proponent of the complete lives system which puts values on lives based mostly on age.

6. Jeff Jones - Chairman of the Apollo Alliance in New York. (Remember that the AA has been given credit for helping to draw up the stimulus bill...which gave themselves $100 billion!) Harry Reid said on 2/17/09, in regards to the stimulus bill "This legislation is the 1st step in building a clean energy economy that creates jobs...The AA has been an important factor in helping us develop & execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals & in motivating the public to support them". (I have two questions for Harry...1, why is the 1st step in the stimulus bill to create a clean energy economy? 2, what does "motivating the public to support them" mean? Well, AA is a huge community organizer that combines the power of radicals, unions, and greenies.)

That's not the end for Jeff Jones. He also founded the Weather Underground with Bill Ayers. You may remember the Weather Underground as the terrorist organization that bombed dozens of federal buildings in the 70's. There was a lot of noise about Bill Ayers & Obama serving on a Chicago board (Woods fund of Chicago) together for 5 years and also living within blocks of each other (more Chicago Cronyism). Ayers said in 2001 "I don't regret setting bombs...I feel we didn't do enough". Ayers also donated to Obama's presidential election campaign. (This is another relationship I don't know much about...I need more time to research!)

Glenn Beck asked the White House if the president knew that Jeff Jones & Van Jones helped write the stimulus bill....they have yet to respond.

Jeff Jones was on the run for 10 years when he was finally caught in 1981 for his terrorist acts. Get this, he then became an advisor to environmental groups, labor organizations, and (even currently) the Governor of New York (Patterson) who placed him on a panel called the Energy & Environment Transition Commission!

Jeff is also an advisor for Workforce Development Institute in New York. What is that? It advises state governments & universities on how to get grants for stimulus money that he was instrumental in writing through the Apollo Alliance!!! Talk about a conflict of interest!

7. Rashid Kadidi - an anti-Israel radical and longtime Chicago friend of the Obama's who threw a fundraiser for his campaign. Obama's Woods Fund (the board he and Ayers served on...cronyism is my new favorite word) made grants totaling $75,000 to Kadidi's Arab American Action Network.

Again, who are these people and why is Obama surrounding himself with such radicals? Even Obama wrote in his book that in college he "sought out Marxist professors". He has yet to publicly reject Marxism.

Michigan Congressman, John Congressman is on video saying (in regards to the health care reform bill) "I love these members, they get up and say 'read the bill!' What good is reading the bill if it's 1,000 pages & you don't have 2 days & 2 lawyers to find out what it means?"

This is an obviously ridiculous thing for a congressman to say. We do expect them to read the bill and we do expect them to understand it. But Glenn Beck made a great point. His lack of concern for reading the bills shows that he trusts whomever put the bills together. Who is it that they are trusting? We need to know! We didn't vote for them!!!

Why are Obama's people NOT capitalist? It seems that Obama himself is anti-capitalist. Can someone ask Obama if he believes in Capitalism?

I'll close this blog with a June 2, 2009 quote from Venezuela's Hugo Chavez: "Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more & nothing less than General Motors. Comrade, Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right."

When the communist president of Venezuela makes a comment like that and when there are communists advising our president, is it "hateful" to start asking some serious questions?

Forced Abortions & Mass Sterilization

I started doing some research on the science Czar, John Holdren after watching day 2 of Glenn Beck's program. I will post my notes on that program after listing some passages from Holdren's book he co-authored in 1977 (Ecoscience - Population, Resources, Environment)

1. John Holdren - Science Czar - a proponent of forced abortions. Some quotes:

• Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.

• One way to carry out this disapproval might be to insist that all illegitimate babies be put up for adoption—especially those born to minors, who generally are not capable of caring properly for a child alone. If a single mother really wished to keep her baby, she might be obliged to go through adoption proceedings and demonstrate her ability to support and care for it. Adoption proceedings probably should remain more difficult for single people than for married couples, in recognition of the relative difficulty of raising children alone. It would even be possible to require pregnant single women to marry or have abortions, perhaps as an alternative to placement for adoption, depending on the society.

• Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock.

• A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.
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  The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births.

• If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility—just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns—providing they are not denied equal protection.

• In today's world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other highly personal matters. For example, no one may lawfully have more than one spouse at a time. Why should the law not be able to prevent a person from having more than two children?

• Perhaps those agencies, combined with UNEP and the United Nations population agencies, might eventually be developed into a Planetary Regime—sort of an international superagency for population, resources, and environment. Such a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable, at least insofar as international implications exist. Thus the Regime could have the power to control pollution not only in the atmosphere and oceans, but also in such freshwater bodies as rivers and lakes that cross international boundaries or that discharge into the oceans. The Regime might also be a logical central agency for regulating all international trade, perhaps including assistance from DCs to LDCs, and including all food on the international market.
  
  The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries' shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.

• If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force. Many people have recognized this as a goal, but the way to reach it remains obscure in a world where factionalism seems, if anything, to be increasing. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization.

• Another related issue that seems to encourage a pronatalist attitude in many people is the question of the differential reproduction of social or ethnic groups. Many people seem to be possessed by fear that their group may be outbred by other groups. White Americans and South Africans are worried there will be too many blacks, and vice versa. The Jews in Israel are disturbed by the high birth rates of Israeli Arabs, Protestants are worried about Catholics, and lbos about Hausas. Obviously, if everyone tries to outbreed everyone else, the result will be catastrophe for all. This is another case of the "tragedy of the commons," wherein the "commons" is the planet Earth. Fortunately, it appears that, at least in the DCs, virtually all groups are exercising reproductive restraint.

• Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may be the last opportunity to choose our own and our descendants' destiny. Failing to choose or making the wrong choices may lead to catastrophe. But it must never be forgotten that the right choices could lead to a much better world.

• To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated. For example, under the United States Constitution, effective population-control programs could be enacted under the clauses that empower Congress to appropriate funds to provide for the general welfare and to regulate commerce, or under the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Such laws constitutionally could be very broad. Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society. Few today consider the situation in the United States serious enough to justify compulsion, however.

Yes, this book was written thirty years ago, but the man who co-authored it is still the same man thirty years later. He has not denounced his beliefs. He stated during his confirmation process that he doesn't believe the government has the right to control population (although he does believe it's constitutional according to his book). Why has Obama appointed this lunatic as the Director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology?

First we find out Van Jones, the Green Jobs Czar is a self-professed radical who favors 3rd world communist movements. Now we learn that the Science Czar is a proponent of forced abortions, mandatory sterilization, and population control.

In my next blog, we'll learn about Cass Sustein (Regulatory Czar who believes in a ban on hunting, meat eating, and giving your dog the right to an attorney), Carol Browner (Global Warming Czar who is part of Socialist International, a group for global governing), Ezekial Manual (Healthcare Adviser a proponent of the complete lives system which puts values on lives based mostly on age), and Jeff Jones the co-founder of the Weather Underground (terrorist group responsible for bombing federal buildings).

If I've been generally labeled by Pelosi and Napolitano as a "right wing extremist", what would they label these people and why do they allow them to advise our president and write our bills?

Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times - Day 1

Here are my notes from Day 1 of Glenn Beck's 5 part series he is having this week on Fox News. Please record this and watch it if you can! It's very thought provoking & crosses party lines.

A breakdown of the US debt:

$38,000 per citizen in federal debt
$191,000 per citizen in unfunded liabilities (medicaid/medicare...add government healthcare to that if it passes...)

This is PER CITIZEN!! Is there any way to tax & spend our way out of this?

Why would anyone want to add more to this debt?

According to the white house estimate last Friday, our national debt went from $7 trillion to $9 trillion. It was only 6 months ago that the Congressional Budget Office estimated the debt would rise to $10 trillion. They were immediately badmouthed by the Obama administration who said those numbers were ridiculous...6 months later, it's not so ridiculous anymore. How could the administration be this wrong in 6 months and no one in the media is questioning it?

What is this administration's motivation for spending us to death?

Here's what Charles Payne had to say: (CEO of Wall Street Strategies, an independent stock market research firm)

• We can get out of this debt if it doesn't increase and we raise the tax rate to 80% all around
• There is another $12 trillion in the US government bailout debts
• $306 trillion is the interest alone that will be owed by us on our debts
• $39 trillion is the YEAR TO DATE amount of Medicare FRAUD! Just 9 months!!
• $644 trillion in currency and credit derivatives (the amount of our debt with the risk factored in)
• Why is the administration raising our debt levels so quickly? To push out corporate power (including other branches of government) in order to grow the executive branch of government.
• Is there any way to realistically pay it off? If there is, we CANNOT diminish the power of free markets or corporate America (which is exactly what this administration is doing).
• The Obama administration knows that as long as the people are afraid, they will allow anything to pass through.
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Why the rush to pass all of these huge bills? It is clearly a strategy from the 60's radicals, Cloward & Piven and their article Strategy to End Poverty. Here it is in a nutshell:

• They believed that there was a wide gap between the entitlements that poor people qualified for and those that they actually collected. If everyone were to be on welfare, it would wipe out poverty all together. Their goal was to educate the masses through the media and community organizations (did someone say ACRORN?) so that masses of people would quickly realize that they are eligible for these entitlements which would create a "crisis", forcing the government to act quickly creating a new program for direct income distribution, Marxism.
• This process is meant to overwhelm the system! According to Cloward & Piven, this will collapse the current system putting a new one in it's place.

Some thoughts & questions from Pat Caddell (liberal democrat pollster):

• Where do these thousands of pages come from in just 6 months??? (stimulus, cap & trade, health care reform...)
• Who's running the show? Who's really in control? Eric Holder (Attorney General) just negated President Obama's decision to "move on" from the CIA interrogation policies and said "we will not move on". Who really is in charge here?
• Until everything makes sense DO NOT allow them to pass anything.

Czars - 3 dozen have been put into position to advise our president. They don't go through a confirmation process, they aren't elected, they don't go through a vetting process, and they answer to no one...yet they are in the top positions of advising our president.

Green Jobs Czar - Van Jones, some notes about Jones:

• noted as showing up at Yale law school wearing combat boots & carrying a black panther backpack. Quoted as saying of those years "If I'd been in another country, I probably would have joined some underground guerrilla sect but as it was, I went to an Ivy league law school".
• was arrested in 1993 during the Rodney King trials & said of his time in jail "I met all these young radical people of color. I mean really radical. Communists & anarchists. And it was like this is what I need to be a part of. By that August, I was a communist".
• Jones spent the next 10 years as a radical creating STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement) which held study groups in Marxist & Lenin teachings.
• Quote from a STORM pamphlet: "All of storms members developed a basic understanding of & commitment to revolutionary Marxist policies w/ a particular emphasis on the historical experiences of 3rd world communist movements".
• Storm's early work included "mobilizing young people of color into militant direct action & combining it with more deeply rooted organizing in our communities."
• In 1995 Jones spun off the Bay Area Police Watch which became the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Baker worked closely with communist members for years including Stanley Levison, a leader of the Communist Party USA.
• In 1999 Jones was arrested again while protesting the World Trade Organization - STORM desolved 3 years later.
• Jones has since denounced his black nationalism to focus on environmentalist issues & plans to stop "eco-apartheid" by training convicts.
• Why/how has this radical communist made it so high in the Obama administration? There's no way he would have passed any confirmation or vetting process!
  
• A bay area newspaper said that Jones is still a revolutionary, just a more powerful one.
• He was quoted in That's The Joint! The hip-hop studies reader "We need to be about the whup-ass. Somebody's F-ing up somewhere. They have names & job descriptions. You have to be creative about how you engage the enemy, because if you do it on his terms, the outcome is already known.
  
• The green jobs initiative was passed under the Bush administration but not funded until Obama's stimulus package, which allotted $100 billion to them.
  
• Jones is a Board Member of the Apollo Alliance which brings organized labor (unions), radicals like Jones, and "greenies" together to create a more powerful force.
  
• Harry Reid was quoted as saying in regards to the stimulus bill "The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in this". (remember, Jones "green jobs" were awarded $100 billion in this package...written by his organization).
• Apollo also proposed the funding of $11 billion in stimulus funds going to the smart grid.
• Acorn is eligible to receive $4.1 billion of stimulus money (WHY?????)
• Van Jones wrote a book called Hoopties 4 Hybrids. Sound familiar? Cash for clunkers was his idea! Who are these people with so much control? Why do they have it?
• When asked about Jones' radical past, the White House did not answer that question, giving a general statement about his work ethic.

That's it for day one! It really gets my mind racing as to who exactly is in power here. What is the hidden agenda? Why are they in such a rush to nationalize, raise the debt, crush the economy? What is their ultimate goal? How do we stop them? I've always known politics had dirty aspects but it's looking like it's just all dirty. The more I learn, the more frustrated I get. I wish I could just ignore it all but if I don't do my best to help change the system, I fear for the country my children will live in. I fear that the freedoms we have today will be something they reminisce about to their grand children.

At the end of the night, I pray. I pray and ask God to bring me peace and knowledge that as long as He is my ultimate leader, I need not worry. My surroundings and my country may change drastically but with God as my family's foundation, I know we are ultimately safe.

That doesn't mean I'll let my country fall apart without a fight!

Good night!

-b