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Patrick Grimm: Morris Dees and the SPLC: Agents of Big Jewry

What is Big Jewry? It is the interconnected network of Jewish organizations, think tanks, lobbyists, supposed "civil rights groups", charities, media outlets, particular newspapers such as the New York Times and their partners and brothers-in-arms in the bloated federal bureaucracy. Big Jewry may not be monolithic on every issue of public moment, but they generally take pro-Zionist, pro-Israel, pro-illegal immigration, pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, pro-"free trade", pro-affirmative action positions. They are quite anti-Christian, anti-church, anti-free speech, anti-Gentilist and when it comes right down to it, anti-American. They are pro-Jewish and not much of anything else matters to them. The Tribe comes first and foremost. The rest of their stances naturally follow from this vantage point. They will fund and further the causes that weaken us, and what weakens us puts them squarely in the engineer's seat of the American cultural train wreck.

The Radical Homosexual Movement is Run by Jews: News from the West

News from the West provides the evidence that a disproportionate number of the most radical elements in the militant homosexual rights lobby are of Jewish origin. . . .

New Book: The Host and the Parasite: How Israel's Fifth Column Consumed America by Greg Felton (Dandelion)

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According to Canadian Greg Felton, author of The Host and the Parasite: How Israel’s Fifth Column Consumed America, just released by Dandelion Books, since the 1980 general election, a fascist cabal of Zionist Jews, Evangelical Christians and neo-con econo-theologians has been waging war on the U.S. republic.

The Host and the Parasite (ISBN 1-893302-97-0) is available through the Dandelion Books store , and other online and brick and mortar bookstores worldwide.

Writes Felton, who has won awards for his investigative journalism and now specializes in Middle-East and Canadian politics, media analysis and language: “Rather than consider Iraq in isolation as oil-firsters do, it must be placed in the more complete context of Israeli subjugation of the Middle East, especially Palestine.

“Not only does this larger picture reinforce the fact of U.S. subservience to Israel,” states Felton, “but it further militates against considering oil as the prime determinant of U.S. policy… In short, a nuclear Iran would be force for peace and stability, and Israel cannot allow that to happen.”

According to Felton, “Today the republic is dead, brought down by a junta that serves Israel’s colonial interests, not the U.S. national interest. This is the essence of ‘the war on terrorism’ and the motive behind the Sept. 11 attack, the invasion of Iraq and the overt provocations of Syria and Iran.”

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Elizabeth Wright's Issues and Views

African-American Elizabeth Wright's Issues and Views is an excellent, hard-hitting, responsible paleo-conservative source of information and analysis.

For the web page, click here.

For Elizabeth Wright's blog, click here.

U.S. Health Freedom on Verge of Collapse by Byron Richards

The anti-American FDA is actively seeking to undermine U.S. laws and harmonize our dietary supplement laws with Mexico and Canada. This is being done through the Trilateral Cooperation Charter – an illegal agreement set up with health regulatory agencies in Mexico and Canada. It is part of the campaign towards a North American Union, one which would be a catastrophe for health freedom in this country as dietary supplement laws in Canada and Mexico are far more restrictive than in the U.S......

FDA Wants to Eliminate Natural Health Care by Tom DeWeese

The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has launched another sneak-attack, trying to regulate your health freedom into oblivion. Through FDA’s unholy partnerships with Big Pharma and the Codex Alimentarius Commission (an offshoot of the UN), we are very close to losing alternative health care in America. This is a crisis, and needs your immediate action......

Jewish Women Re-affirm Commitment to the Death of the Pre-Born: Jewish Telegraphic Agency

WASHINGTON (JTA) – Supreme Court decisions usually are considered final, but Jewish groups that favor abortion rights are taking this week's ruling upholding a ban on late-term abortions to lawmakers.

The groups, which consider the April 18 ruling a rollback of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that upheld abortion as a matter of privacy and a woman's choice, say they will now go to state legislatures and to Congress, and ultimately make it a matter for the 2008 presidential elections.

"This isn't going to go away," said Phyllis Snyder, president of the National Council of Jewish Women, perhaps the most vocal group advocating for reproductive rights. "This is the beginning of a new fight now."

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority ruling that those opposing a 2003 U.S. law banning late-term abortions "have not demonstrated that the Act would be unconstitutional in a large fraction of relevant cases."

Kennedy said other procedures are available to women whose lives are threatened by their pregnancies.

Reaction from Jewish groups was swift.

The decision's "disregard for the rights of the so-called 'fraction' of women who, for a range of reasons, including the preservation of their own lives, need specific reproductive health services, is heartless and insensitive," the Reform movement's Religious Action Center said.

Hadassah: The Women's Zionist Organization of America said the court "inappropriately inserted itself into the personal lives of American women."

The minority decision in the 5-4 ruling, written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is Jewish, said the majority decision "chips away" at women's rights.

Ginsburg wrote that the ruling "recalls ancient notions about women's place in society and under the Constitution – ideas that have long since been discredited."

Supporters of the law say "health exceptions" are murky and note that the bill includes an exception when birth would threaten a woman's life. Opponents counter that women in such dangers may obtain the abortion only through a legal challenge, a process they say is burdensome.

Among Jewish groups, only the fervently Orthodox Agudath Israel of America praised the decision.

"At a time when social and cultural trends tend to undervalue human life, laws that prohibit the killing of partially delivered fetuses serve as a vital reminder of the enormity of the moral issues surrounding the taking of human life," Agudah said.

Other groups expressing disappointment in the decision included the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the umbrella body for Jewish community relations councils across the country.

"We hope Congress will act to reverse the unfortunate legislation that triggered this decision," JCPA Chairwoman Lois Frank said.

The Orthodox Union, the modern Orthodox umbrella body, had no comment. In the past it has said that decisions on abortion – including late-term abortion, a method that conservative groups call "partial-birth abortion" – should be left to the mother, her doctor and her cleric.

Jewish religious law considers the mother's health paramount, and Jewish activists – even the conservative – traditionally have sought to write protections for women into abortion legislation.

This was a case where halacha, or Jewish law, and justice should coincide, said Susan Weidman Schneider, editor of Lilith, a Jewish feminist magazine, "and it certainly doesn't with this Supreme Court decision."

"There is a sense I have that Jewish women have not been on the ramparts as much as they used to be," she said. "The question is why and what do we do now" that can help mitigate this decision.

Dr. Paul Blumenthal, a professor of obstetrics at Stanford University, said the decision undermined the physician-patient relationship.

"It means that women are no longer going to get the best possible care from physicians because a lot of clinical decision-making is taken out of our hands," he said.

The immediate political focus, Snyder said, would be on a Democratic effort in the U.S. Congress to codify the Roe v. Wade findings into law. Lead sponsors for the Freedom of Choice Act in both houses are Jewish: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)

"NCJW will certainly rev itself up and be working" on the act, Snyder said. The probability of a presidential veto would be less important than the fact that passing the act "puts Congress on record in support of the right to choose."

The fight will be defined in part by where anti-abortion groups empowered by the decision take their reinvigorated efforts to end abortion

"It's likely two-fold, both at the state level and in Washington on Capitol Hill," said Jeff Sinensky, general counsel for the American Jewish Committee. "We're sure to see efforts around the country to introduce anti-abortion legislation."

The AJCommittee, which filed an amicus brief in the case, expressed its "disappointment" with the ruling.

"AJC opposes governmental interference in a woman's ability to choose the safest medical procedures that best protect her ability to bear children in the future," the group said.

Sinensky said the decision would ultimately play out in the 2008 elections.

"Obviously it pushes the issue of abortion rights into the presidential campaign as a major issue," he said.

Snyder said NCJW would maintain its aggressive posture regarding the makeup of the Supreme Court.

"We'll be watching upcoming judicial nominations," she said.

NCJW was nearly alone among activist groups in aggressively campaigning against President Bush's two successful court nominees, John Roberts and Samuel Alito. The pair tipped the balance since 2000, when the court last considered a late-term ban – and rejected it.

"This ruling underscores once again that the composition of the Supreme Court matters," the NCJW statement said. "Who serves on the court has a direct bearing on our ability to exercise our constitutional rights, including reproductive freedom."

It's a message Hadassah was coming around to, said Shelley Klein, the organization's director of advocacy.

"It's strikingly clear that the Supreme Court and the federal court system are no longer the bulwark of rights we hoped it would be," she said. "If federal courts do not protect rights, then it comes back to legislatures. It makes Congress more significant, states more significant."

The Legacy of Sam Francis: Dr. E. Michael Jones for Culture Wars

I first met Sam Francis at a meeting of the John Randolph Club in Chicago. He was sitting at a table with Tom Fleming. Both men are two years older than me. Both gave me the impression that I was a freshman trying to sit at the Junior Lunch Table in the School Cafeteria.

The last time I saw Sam Francis, it was at a meeting in Washington. Sam was the moderator at a talk given by Joseph Tyndal, a leader of the National Front in England. Mr. Tyndal was trying to get us enthused about being white guys, and so he launched into a peroration about the glories of Elizabethan England. Since Elizabethan England was the place where Catholic priests, like Edmund Campion, SJ, could be hanged until not quite dead, drawn and quartered and have their entrails thrown into boiling oil for the crime of saying the Mass, I was less than enthralled by the picture Mr. Tyndal had painted for us. In fact, if his intention was to bring us all together, his talk had the exact opposite effect. Since both Father Campion and Lord Burghley and his henchman Walsingham were all white, just what meaning did this fact possess?

Patriots Question 9-11: The Latest List of Questioners of the Official Party Line

Charlotte Iserbyt has sent to Mark Dankof of BATR this web site, entitled Patriots Question 9-11. The list of nonbelievers is growing, impressive, and formidable. Is the 9-11 Truth Movement following in the footsteps of those who questioned the Roberts Commission account of Pearl Harbor, and the Warren Commission spin on the death of President Kennedy? Stay tuned.

For the Patriots Question 9-11 web page, click here.

Smearing of USS Liberty Crew by Jewish Bankruptcy Judge Jay Cristol Backfires: William Hughes

When Ahron Jay Cristol, a self-described “amateur historian,” showed up at the National Security Agency's (NSA) National Cryptologic Museum at Fort George C. Meade, MD., on Jan. 14, 2004, there was something almost sacrilegious about his presence there.

He was there to peddle his pro-Zionist Israel book, “The Liberty Incident.” It is a clever, but seriously flawed, apologia, that attempts to mask the wrongdoing associated with Israel’s premeditated attack on the USS Liberty, an NSA-fitted spy vessel, on June 8, 1967. That attack killed 34 brave Americans and wounded 172 others. His book also smears those demanding justice in the Liberty matter as “conspiracy theorists.”


Who is Cristol? Now, in his 70s, he has worked mostly as a bankruptcy judge, a federal sinecure that doesn’t need congressional approval. He has a non-combat background in the U.S. Navy.

Two days before his appearance, Cristol was on a State Dept. panel, in DC, pontificating about the 1967 “Six-Day War” and the fate of the Liberty. When survivors of the Liberty, during the Q&A period, began to speak out about the “Whitewash,” one Marc Susser, a State Dept. honcho, ordered them silenced.

Cristol’s insufferable mantra: “The Israelis’ attack on the Liberty was an accident,” was repeated by him ad nauseam at the book signing. However, the overwhelming credible evidence shows that the Israeli attack was intentional (James M. Ennes, Jr.’s “Assault on the Liberty”), and that an insidious cover-up of that fact has continued down to the present day (James Bamford's “Body of Secrets”). Recently, two individuals from the U.S. intelligence community have come forward to verify that they had viewed intercepted real-time transcripts, on June 8, 1967, between Israeli jet pilots and their ground controllers, in which the Israelis clearly acknowledged that they knew that they were attacking, and worse still, trying to sink, “the American ship.”

(http://www.ussliberty.org/smoking.htm).

Captain Ward Boston and the USS Liberty Investigation/Cover-Up: Hesham Tillawi's Current Issues TV

Captain Ward Boston, Senior Counsel to the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry investigation into the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was ordered 40 years ago not to say anything about the investigation...

Captain Ward Boston felt obliged to reveal what he knew of the attack in the Navy Times after U. S. Federal Bankruptcy Judge Jay Cristol in Florida published articles and gave talks which supported the official Israeli Government version. Cristol made 13 trips to Israel before publishing the Jewish Party Line.

A couple of days ago he spoke to Mark Glenn, American Free Press reporter who is writing a story on the USS Liberty.

Both men will be with us this Tuesday April 3 to discuss the biggest US naval loss since WWII.

With the US Navy in the Persian Gulf, will there will be a replay of this scenario if Israel bombs Iran?

Hour One of Hesham Tillawi interview with Ward Boston: Click here.

Hour Two of Hesham Tillawi interview with Ward Boston: Click here.

The American Experience (PBS): The Charles Lindbergh Des Moines Speech of 1941

National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored a similar course for America. But there were various groups of people, here and abroad, whose interests and beliefs necessitated the involvement of the United States in the war. I shall point out some of these groups tonight, and outline their methods of procedure. In doing this, I must speak with the utmost frankness, for in order to counteract their efforts, we must know exactly who they are.

The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration.

Behind these groups, but of lesser importance, are a number of capitalists, Anglophiles, and intellectuals who believe that the future of mankind depends upon the domination of the British empire. Add to these the Communistic groups who were opposed to intervention until a few weeks ago, and I believe I have named the major war agitators in this country.

Christophobes At The Gates: Christopher Ferrara for The Remnant

By now many readers of this newspaper will have heard of the nonsensical and error-filled “report” on the traditionalist movement by an outfit called the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). SPLC’s self-bestowed mission is to rid America of “hate and intolerance,” which is how the far-Left describes any sort of effective opposition to Liberalism’s claim to possession of the entire world.

Karl Keating of Catholic Answers deserves a great deal of credit for being the only spokesman in the Novus Ordo establishment who has been publicly critical of the SPLC smear job.

Keating practiced law before he decided to devote himself full time to Catholic apologetics, and a well-deserved lawyerly contempt is on display in his critique, which appears in “Karl Keating’s E-Letter” of February 6, 2007, under the title “A Botched Report on a Worthy Issue.”

There are, however, serious shortcomings in Keating’s critique, which fails to take issue with SPLC on first principles, as even non-Catholic conservatives have done. If Keating’s critique is any indication, the Novus Ordo constituency of which he is such a prominent representative has failed to grasp that the traditionalist movement is not some dispensable minority group whose fate at the hands of the Liberal inquisition is more or less a matter of indifference to the “mainstream” Church. Rather, this opening attack on the traditionalist movement is an attack on traditional Roman Catholicism itself as the only formidable obstacle to worldwide Liberal hegemony. Hence this article will discuss both SPLC’s “exposé” and Keating’s critique in the larger context of the crisis in the Church and the growing threat posed to her by Liberal social order.

Mark Dankof on "Christian Zionism": Dr. Hesham Tillawi's Current Issues TV for Feb 13th

Mark Dankof was Dr. Hesham Tillawi's guest on the latter's Current Issues TV on-line television show seen around the world on the Internet. The subject was "Christian Zionism." The show aired live on February 13th, 2007.

Dr. Hesham Tillawi will have a regular Saturday radio show on the Republic Broadcasting Network, from 4 to 6 p.m. CST. It will air on the Republic Broadcasting Network website and on international shortwave 5050.

Click here for the 56 minute show with Mark Dankof archived on Google Video.

Click here for a Mark Dankof research paper on Dispensationalism.

A Review of Chalmers Johnson's "Nemesis" by Stephen Lendman

Chalmers Johnson is professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego where he taught for 30 years as well as at UC, Berkeley (where he was educated). At Berkeley, he was chairman of the Center for Chinese Studies and its Department of Political Studies. He's currently president of the Japan Policy Research Institute (JPRI), a not-for-profit research and public affairs organization involved in public education relating to Japan and international relations in the Pacific region. Johnson is also a prolific writer and author of 17 books, numerous articles and various other publications.

From 1967 through 1973, he served as well as a consultant to the Office of National Estimates (ONE) within the CIA, and during the Cold War years was, by his own characterization, a former "spear-carrier for the empire." At least since the age of George Bush, however, Johnson radically transformed himself into one of the nation's sharpest and most important intellectual critics of the current administration having now completed the third and last volume of his "inadvertent trilogy" in his newest book Nemesis that's the subject of this review.

Allan Quist: Terrorism as Taught by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO): EdWatch

"Issues and Action in Education"
February 19, 2007

"Issues and Action in Education" is an e-letter produced by EdWatch, a nonprofit organization.

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Terrorism as taught by International Baccalaureate

by Allen Quist



Is terrorism real? Not according to the globalist education program known as International Baccalaureate (IB). To explain its “theory of knowledge” which is at the “core” of the IB curriculum, the IBO website provides the following power-point slide (See slide # 17 here.)
The Learner Profile: A Shared Set of Values:

Freedom Fighter or Terrorist?
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” [Mahatma Gandhi]

“Whenever two good people argue over principles, they
Are both right.” [Marie Ebner von Eschenbach]

That is, according to IBO, terrorists only exist in the mind of the beholder. Terrorists do not exist in a real or objective sense. Is this significant? IBO’s views on relative truth and morality are central to its curriculum. The IBO website also explains that its purpose is creating “world citizens”­meaning that IBO exists to create students who hold the attitudes, values and worldview dictated by IBO. The kids who are in the 680 American Schools that have adopted IB are being indoctrinated in its relativistic and globalist worldview.

To be specific, The IBO website describes its mission as follows: “The International Baccalaureate Organization … [consists of] programmes of international education … [producing] learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.” Gene Edward Veith evaluates the IB philosophy this way: “Theory of knowledge … employs a ‘hermeneutic of suspicion’ that undermines the very possibility of accepting any kind of objective truth.” [World 1-13-07, p. 11]

As such, IB is hostile to the foundational principles of the United States. Our Declaration of Independences says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident… ” One of the foundational pillars of the United States is recognition of objective truth, real truth. IB undermines this principle and aggressively teaches the contrary view.

What is International Baccalaureate?
The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) was formed in the 1960’s to provide a western system of education for the children of U.S. diplomats. In 1996, however, IBO formed a “partnership” with UNESCO to create a pilot program for what the IBO and UNESCO websites describe as an “international system of education.”

Today IB is essentially an arm of UNESCO, and when American schools join IB, they agree that IBO-UNESCO will train the teachers, write the curriculum, compose the important tests (which are sent to Geneva for scoring), and dictate the values, attitudes and worldview that will be taught to the students.
In order for IBO students and faculty to become “world citizens,” they are required to memorize the ten “learner profile” values of world citizenship. The Ten Commandments have been replaced with the 10 values of IBO-UNESCO. On its website IBO says: “The attributes of the learner profile express the values inherent to the IB continuum of international education.”

The Brooklyn Center, MN, Earl Brown and Evergreen Park elementary school IB grant application even calls for each school to have a “General Assembly Room designed to resemble and simulate the general assembly room at the United Nations.” A UN history room is added for good measure. No similar request is made for a U.S. Congress room or a Minnesota Legislature room, of course. This grant application also promises to integrate the IBO-UNESCO philosophy into its “core content curriculum.”

The Values of IB
IBO says that it “endorses” the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Article 26 of UDHR says education “shall further the activities of the United Nations.” This means that IBO agrees to promote and teach all the activities of the UN including treaties and documents America has not signed such as the UDHR, the Treaty on the Rights of the Child, Kyoto, the UN Treaty on Biodiversity, the Earth Charter and the treaty establishing the new UN Criminal Court, to name just a few.

The UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which IBO advocates, describes our fundamental human rights as follows: “These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations” [article 29]. Compare that UN view of human rights to the American view contained in our Declaration of Independence. The Declaration insists that human rights, including life, liberty and property, are “inalienable” and “God-given.”

The big question is which has greater standing and authority--our God-given, inalienable human rights or the policies of the UN? The Declaration of Independence, the philosophical foundation of the United States, insists on the former. The UDHR insists on the latter. Let us be perfectly clear on this: Our Declaration view is the foundation of liberty; the IBO--UN view is the foundation of tyranny.

The Real Issue
It should not be surprising that IBO denies that terrorism is real. The values of IBO are hostile to the foundational principles of the United States including real truth and morality. [See America's Schools: The Battleground for Freedom, Chapter 16.] The question for the United States is this: Do we have the moral courage to reaffirm our foundational principles, the principles of freedom, and teach those values to our children? Or will we welcome our own destruction by allowing our children to be indoctrinated in the worldview that is diametrically opposed to everything we believe in? And, yes, this is the real battle for freedom of our time.

Allen Quist is adjunct professor at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota. He served three terms in the Minnesota legislature and has authored three books on education: The Seamless Web ; Fed Ed: The New Federal Curriculum and How It’s Enforced; and America's Schools: The Battleground for Freedom .
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Books: LeMay by Barrett Tillman for the Great Generals Series (Palgrave/Macmillan)

BATR's Mark Dankof remembers General Curtis E. LeMay quite well. As related to listeners to Mark's Republic Broadcasting Network show on February 16th, he voted for the Wallace-LeMay Presidential ticket on the American Independent Party line in 1968 in a mock Presidential election at Miami Valley School in Dayton, Ohio while in the 8th grade that year. It was the ultimate act of political defiance during the incipient stages of Political Correctness in America in the late 1960s in the American educational scene.

Mark Dankof remembers Curtis Emerson LeMay for another reason. The former's father, Colonel Karl E. Dankof (USAF-ret.), served General LeMay as an aide at several high-level Air Force staff conferences during the height of the Cold War. Colonel Dankof made a number of rounds during his USAF days, including stints with AFTAC, and as the former Air Force Logistics Command's (AFLC) liaison to Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. After the war, the Colonel served the Lockheed company as a director of logistics for the Shah of Iran's Imperial Iranian Air Force, and later in Saudi Arabia.

Palgrave/Macmillan has a Great Generals Series now available. The selected Generals are Patton, Grant, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Stonewall Jackson--and yes, you guessed it--a guy named LeMay. Barrett Tillman authors the LeMay book, which Mark Dankof grades as a readable, enjoyable, A+ effort, in analyzing the Father of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) as a more complex figure than generally acknowledged by either advocates or detractors. See below for more information:

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LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when were Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was responsible for tens of thousands of civilian deaths a fact he liked to celebrate by smoking Cuban cigars. But LeMay was also the man who single-handedly transformed the American air force from a ramshackle team of poorly-trained and badly equipped pilots into one of the fiercest and most efficient weapons of the war. Over the last decades, most U.S. military missions were carried out entirely through the employment of the air force--this is LeMay's legacy. Packed with breathtaking battles in the air and inspiring leadership tactics on the ground, LeMay will keep readers on their edge of their seats.

Review:

"The general in charge of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Curtis Emerson LeMay witnessed the beginning of the age of nuclear weaponry. As commander of the Strategic Air Command during the Cold War, he saw its consequences in the escalating tension with Russia and his campaigns in North and South Korea. Tillman (author of 40 books including Warriors) calls LeMay one of 'the chilliest of cold war Republicans,' having made the dubious choice to become the 1968 running mate of segregationist George Wallace. Though LeMay claimed to have joined the campaign out of concern for opponent Richard Nixon's foreign policy, the move permanently damaged his reputation. 'It is not recorded that anyone ever accused Curtis LeMay of charisma,' observes Tillman, adding, 'Perhaps no other American military leader of the 20th century was so successful without possessing a charismatic personality.' That may help explain why the book includes significantly more discussion of B-29s and B-52s than it does anecdotes or direct quotes that illustrate LeMay's character or personal life. Well informed and clear, this somewhat dry account will interest air force enthusiasts, though LeMay's charmlessness is unlikely to win over many casual readers." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

The CFR and Population Control: The Lake/Whitman Document: "More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U. S. Approach Toward Africa"

What are the implications of the CFR's position paper on population control in Africa as the U. S. competes with China for Africa's natural resources?????



(Quote from task force report, Page 17 of the paper, page 40 of the PDF file)



"Population programs must be restored to their earlier priority. Ideological issues and shifting of attention to HIV/AIDS have led to a diminution of U.S. leadership in this area. Yet the demographic projections in Africa should give the United States serious concern. Famine-prone countries like Ethiopia and Niger have doubled their population in the past two decades and the projections suggest further sharp increases in the future. In particular, the social and political impact of the growing youth bulge should garner more attention to population policy, as this bulge presages more conflict, unemployment, and potential recruitment for extremist activity."

The GOP's $3 Billion Dollar Propaganda Organ: Robert Parry for ConsortiumNews.com

The American Right achieved its political dominance in Washington over the past quarter century with the help of more than $3 billion spent by Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon on a daily propaganda organ, the Washington Times, according to a 21-year veteran of the newspaper.

George Archibald, who describes himself “as the first reporter hired at the Washington Times outside the founding group” and author of a commemorative book on the Times’ first two decades, has now joined a long line of disillusioned conservative writers who departed and warned the public about extremism within the newspaper.

In an Internet essay on recent turmoil inside the Times, Archibald also confirmed claims by some former Moon insiders that the cult leader has continued to pour in $100 million a year or more to keep the newspaper afloat. Archibald put the price tag for the newspaper’s first 24 years at “more than $3 billion of cash.”

Mossad-KGB double agent Zeev Avni dies at 86 by Yossi Melman for Haaretz

Zeev Avni, who was involved in one of Israel's most secret espionage affairs, died last week at age 86.

Avni, a Mossad agent, was arrested in April 1956 on suspicion of being a KGB agent. It emerged that while he was cultivating former Nazis employed as military advisers by Egypt's army for the Mossad, he was also serving as a long-term Soviet mole.

When Avni's double life was eventually exposed, he was tried in secret and sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment.

North American Union Isn't Going Away by Jerome Corsi for Human Events

Michael Medved has now published a second tirade on the issue of North American integration, this time attacking both Joseph Farah and me by name. John Hawkins has also responded briefly on his blog, taking the opportunity to issue yet another ad hominem attack, this time calling me “crazy.” Neither gentleman has yet responded to the substantive arguments or evidence that many of us have produced, demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt that North American integration is proceeding full speed ahead in the Bush Administration.

Video: Why Mitt Romney Will Never Be President?

You Tube: Footage from the Romney -- Kennedy debate, October 1994 (certainly not put together by a supporter). Via reader Alykhan Velshi who notes "why Mitt Romney will never be president."

Who Was Revilo P. Oliver? A Biography

Revilo P. Oliver was a giant of the Old Right and a critic par excellence of spiritual, political, cultural, and academic decline in America. The web site dedicated to his writings, the chronicle of additional works at National Vanguard, and the Oliver biography, are well worth the time of the BATR reader and browser.

A Moderately Happy Birthday, Bill Buckley! by Paul Gottfried

By Paul Gottfried

[Recently by Paul Gottfried: The Neoconservative Vision) Parallel Lives: William F. Buckley vs. Samuel T. Francis]

William F. Buckley, the former conservative pundit, celebrates his 81^st birthday today (November 24). His eightieth birthday last fall provided liberal journalists with an opportunity to praise someone who, according to Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, had saved the Right from extremism. According to Dionne (Buckley: The Right's Practical Intellectual Washington Post, October 11, 2005, A17), echoed a few days later by a Goldberg variation in NRO (Golden Days, October 27, 2005), Buckley had made heroic efforts throughout his career "to rid the right of the wing nuts." In fact, according to Dionne, Buckley became " the scourge of an anti-Semitism that once had a hold on significant parts of the right. He also blasted the strange conspiracy theories of the John Birch Society. "

But, contrary to this puff piece, Buckley had vented much of his youthful bile on Murray Rothbard, Ronald Hamowy, and other predominantly Jewish libertarians. These figures had disagreed with Buckley’s stated willingness to support an ever-growing public administration designed to prosecute the Cold War.

Wonder-Working Power: The Roots and Reach of the Religious Right: Daniel McCarthy

Wonder-Working Power

The roots and the reach of the religious right.

Daniel McCarthy | December 2006 Print Edition

In Defense of the Religious Right: Why Conservative Christians Are the Lifeblood of the Republican Party and Why That Terrifies the Democrats, by Patrick Hynes, Nashville: Nelson Current, 288 pages, $24.99

The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege, by Damon Linker, New York: Doubleday, 304 pages, $26

The Christian Coalition was instrumental in the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994, but before long its power seemed to be waning. In 1996 Bill Clinton—the draft-dodging, pot-smoking, abortion-rights-supporting womanizer who embodied everything Christian conservatives abhorred—handily won re-election against Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.). Two years later, Republicans lost ground in Congress as they prepared to impeach Clinton, and Paul Weyrich, the man who had first suggested to Jerry Falwell the name “Moral Majority,” adapted a phrase from Timothy Leary: It was time, he told Christian conservatives, to “turn off,” “tune out,” and “drop out.”

Death by Government: The Missing Chapter by Thomas DiLorenzo

Over the past decade a number of researchers have attempted to document the extent to which various governments during the twentieth century committed acts of mass murder against their own citizens. The millions of deaths catalogued by such researchers as R.J. Rummel, author of Power Kills and Death by Government, and by the authors of The Black Book of Communism, are not deaths caused by foreign armies, but by all those unfortunate souls’ own governments.

The glaring omission is the 300,000 Americans who were killed by the Lincoln regime from 1861–1865. According to some conservative estimates, some 50,000 Southern civilians were also killed. The southern secessionists certainly were a significant opposition to the ruling regime; they absolutely denied the validity of the regime’s absolutist ideology – nationalism and a "mystical" union (as Lincoln called it) that must be held together at all cost; they were certainly dissenting to the Lincoln regime’s goals and its nationalistic ideology; and Lincoln did refer to the original, peaceful acts of secession as a "rebellion." Indeed, the "official" U.S. government title for the War to Prevent Southern Independence is "The War of the Rebellion."

More than half of the 300,000 or so southerners (one out of four adult men) who died, perished from disease. Nevertheless, it was the war, which forced those men to live in conditions where they would be subjected to being exposed to epidemics, that was the root cause of their death.

Bush's Defeated Foe: U. S. Civil Liberty by Paul Craig Roberts

George Orwell warned us, but what American would have expected that in the opening years of the 21st century the United States would become a country in which lies and deception by the President and Vice President were the basis for a foreign policy of war and aggression, and in which indefinite detention without charges, torture, and spying on citizens without warrants have displaced the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution?

If anyone had predicted that the election of George W. Bush to the presidency would result in an American police state and illegal wars of aggression, he would have been dismissed as a lunatic.

Video: A Mother's Prayer

Friday 10 November 2006

Orangeburg, South Carolina - Elaine's son, Spc. Darius Jennings, age 22, was killed in action in Iraq on November 2, 2003, when his Chinook helicopter was shot down, taking his life and the lives of fifteen other soldiers.

The war in Iraq has also been devastating for Elaine's community: "There were four soldiers from the same area as my hometown killed in a short time, and Darius was one of them," she said. "This has been a great loss for the community and has hit hard, because a lot of young men go into the military."

Three graduates of Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School (South Carolina), where Darius went to school, were killed in Iraq in the space of just three months. Ms. Johnson, who works at an industrial plant in the Orangeburg area and is a member of Gold Star Families Speak Out, spoke out immediately after her son's death, questioning why U.S. troops remained in Iraq. She publicly challenged Bush a week after Darius was killed, questioning why he could come to South Carolina for a $2,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser, but could not bother to contact her and offer his condolences.

"I forced the president to meet with us," she said. "I asked him why soldiers like my son were still dying in Iraq, and he said 'to finish the mission'. I asked what the mission was, but he was already leaving the room."

'Evil twin' of 13th Amendment found in N.C.: Charlotte Observer

In the delicate days before the Civil War, Congress proposed a 13th amendment that would have prohibited Washington from interfering with slavery in states where it existed.

It was one of many last-ditch efforts to avert war and stem the tide of southern states seceding.

The amendment, known as the "ghost amendment," was signed by President James Buchanan and left for the new president, Abraham Lincoln, to send to governors for their legislatures to ratify.

Lincoln dutifully did so, sending North Carolina's copy to Gov. John Ellis with a cover letter that didn't endorse or oppose the constitutional amendment.

Last week, 145 years later, editors of Lincoln's papers discovered it among Ellis' documents in the state archives in Raleigh.

Books: How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature by James P. Cantrell

This seminal book of literary criticism challenges the common perception that the culture of white Southerners springs from English, or Anglo-Norman roots. Mr. Cantrell presents persuasive historical and literary evidence that it was the South's Celtic-Irish, Scots, Welsh, or Scots-Irish settlers who had the greatest influence on Southern culture.

Mr. Cantrell targets William Gilmore Simms as the most important antebellum Southern writer and devotes an entire chapter to his work. Among writers published after the Civil War, he focuses on Ellen Glasgow, Caroline Gordon, and the Agrarians. William Faulkner's writing receives special attention, especially the Gaelic influences on Thomas Sutpen in Absalom, Absalom! Unlike some literary theorists, Mr. Cantrell takes Gone With the Wind seriously as he dissects Margaret Mitchell's Southern epic. He uses the history of Irish Christianity in his explanation of Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away. Among contemporary writers, Pat Conroy and James Everett Kibler each merit a chapter for their use of their Celtic heritage in their books.



About The Author



James P. Cantrell is a native of Warren County who currently lives in Germantown, Tennessee, with his wife of twenty years and their two sons. He learned the Gaelic and Cymric languages in order to specialize in Irish literature while working for his M. A. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Cantrell later earned his Ph. D. in American literature with an emphasis on Southern literature from the University of Arkansas. He has also written the foreword for Pelican's new edition of The Clansman by Thomas Dixon, Jr.



How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature

by James P. Cantrell

288 pp. 6x9 Notes Biblio. Index

ISBN: 1-58980-330-2 $29.95

13-Digit ISBN: 9781589803305

Pelican Publishing Company: 1-800-843-1724 or 1-888-5-PELICAN

Not Feeling Guilty by Charley Reese

I don't feel guilty about slavery. I don't feel guilty about the fate of Native Americans. In fact, I don't feel guilty about anything that happened prior to the date of my birth.

I never owned a slave or desired to, nor did I ever shoot an Indian and steal his land. I say this because there are a lot of special-interest groups trying to lay guilt trips on Americans of European ancestry. That is nothing more than a con game. All we inherit from our ancestors are genes.

The U.S. Senate Tackles Immigration Reform…But There’s A Flag On The Field, Folks by Bryanna Bevens

This past week I saw hard work, healthy debate, concerted effort and lots of progress…everywhere in the world save for the United States Senate.

I have said it before: If more people watched C-SPAN instead of QVC, every member of Congress would be unemployed by Christmas in what I imagine would look something like a nuclear election holocaust.

U.S. history lesson: stop meddling by Stephen Kinzer

THE UNITED STATES is facing a major crisis in Iran, where the clerical regime, despite its denials, is evidently embarked on an effort to develop nuclear weapons. Because American leaders say they will not tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran, this has led to intense speculation that the Bush administration is preparing a military attack.

History suggests, however, that such an attack would have disastrous long-term consequences. Iranians know as well as anyone how terribly wrong such foreign interventions can go.

Cleveland Women Put In Gulag And Held For Psyh Eval For Trying To Put Up Anti-Bush Poster by Greg Szymanski

A Cleveland woman, manhandled by police and charged with two felonies for trying to display anti-Bush posters, was jailed in a Cuyahoga County psych unit last week in what her attorney called a "highly unusual and outrageous" decision.

Carol Fisher, 53, was ordered by state court Judge Timothy McGinty to undergo a psychological examination as a part of her pre-sentencing investigation in the anti-Bush poster incident.

From the onset of the case, Judge McGinty openly claimed Fisher suffered from "mental problems" for resisting a brutal encounter on Jan. 28 when Cleveland Heights police manhandled and arrested her even after complying with orders to not display the anti-Bush posters on a downtown Cleveland Heights street.