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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea. - Earl Nightingale

Those evil, unenlightened and oppressive teachers! How dare they prevent our kids, our babies, from talking on phones, watching YouTube videos and twittering in class! This is America, isn't it? It's a free and democratic country. How dare they deny my angel her inalienable individual rights!

There is one thing worse than a high school dropout: A student who stays in the classroom and is bored, said Martin Bean, head of marketing and business development for Microsoft's education products group.Unfortunately, many are, Bean told a group of educators gathered Tuesday for Microsoft's School of the Future World Summit in Seattle. Bean said schools largely are not adapting to their students' digital lifestyles.

"Our end users (students) feel that the actual system in which they are forced to live is so disconnected from the world that they live in," he said, citing a U.S. Department of Education study showing that while most students believe education is important, few think it meets their needs.

Blanket policies, such as bans on cell phones or locking up computer rooms, do not help, Bean said during his keynote address and later during an interview. - Educators urged to adapt to students' tech lifestyles, Seattle PI

Let's put technology aside this time and take a little walk down memory lane. O look, over there! That looks like our old friends Discipline and Respect and Knowledge! Where have they been all these years? Are they on FaceBook?

All kidding aside,  I don't remember high school being very exciting, and in retrospect it was certainly due to the quality of teachers and their teaching.  Nonetheless, at the time, my peers and I respected, even feared the teachers. It really wasn't questioned very much. That made my classmates and I happy, just like it makes a puppy happy when his master is dominant and strong. Anyone who watches Cesar Millan knows this.  Of course there is always the occasional poking fun at the teacher or drawing funny pictures of her during class; but all in all, we still didn't want to get in trouble.
We just wanted to get good grades and be accepted into our college of choice.

That was back in the late 80s.

And it was also in the 80s when Dr. Benjamin Spock, that child behavioral psychologist whose philosophy is embedded in the very bowels of spoiled children all across America, said the following:

''I'm very disappointed that so few young people are interested in politics,'' he told a local reporter last week. ''They seem to keep their noses to the grindstone, interested only in getting good grades and getting a good job.'' NY Times 1983

How disappointing that kids care about good grades and making something of their lives! That is just so American of them, to want to succeed and be something in their lives. You know, I was listening to Michael Savage talk about this Dr. Spock on his radio show.  So thanks to Savage, this character has come under my radar.   Turns out Dr. Spock was an anti-war activist in the sixties. He also was the People's Party candidate for the 1972 Presidential Election .The People's Party was created by various American socialist groups. His platform called for the legalization of abortion, homosexuality and marijuana, guaranteed minimum wage and withdrawal of American troops from all foreign countries. He is ideologically no different from Mr. Bill Education-is-the-motor-force-for-revolution-Ayers. You can read about his philosophy of education here.

So Keeping Spock politics in mind, one can even imagine the sort of child care advice this man would bring to the world. Unfortunately, his point of view on child care is now pretty much mainstream: "Time outs" instead of spankings; treating kids as equals, as individuals; being more of a friend and companion to your child, rather than a disciplinarian or mentor:

Spock's ideas have become such a part and parcel of the parenting landscape that it's easy to forget how revolutionary they were. In post-war America, parents were in awe of doctors and other childcare professionals; Spock assured them that parents were the true experts on their own children. They had been told that picking up infants when they cried would only spoil them; Spock countered that cuddling babies and bestowing affection on children would only make them happier and more secure. Instead of adhering to strict, one-size-fits-all dictates on everything from discipline to toilet training, Spock urged parents to be flexible and see their children as individuals.

Perhaps most revolutionary of all, he suggested that parenting could be fun, that mothers and fathers could actually enjoy their children and steer a course in which their own needs and wishes also were met. All this and much more, including a wealth of helpful medical advice, was delivered in a friendly, reassuring, and common-sense manner completely at odds with the cold authoritarianism favored by most other parenting books of the time. - Dr.Spock.com

Now I love to give my daughter affection, but I also know the value of a firm and consistent presence. She doesn't cry much because she knows she gets nothing out of it. Like I suggested above, you'd be better off using Cesar Millan as your child care expert.   In any case, I am not sure what my daughter is going to do when she finds out that the world has changed. Everyone out there is having tantrums; and everyone is either hiring class action lawsuits to get revenge on the fact they lost their binkies,or they are electing any village idiot like Al Franken or an experienced fraud like Barack Obama to office - anyone who promises to change their diapers.

There is a viral and extremely contagious idea out there that says we need to comply with the will and ways of the young people. This idea is a symptom of democracy gone bad. Democracy gone bad is freedom toying with anarchy. Plato describes this state of affairs in his Republic:

...the father accustoms himself to become like his child and fears his sons, while the son likens himself to his father, and feels neither shame nor fear in front of his parents, so he may be free ; the metic [563a] becomes the equal of a citizen and the citizen of a metic, and similarly with the foreigner.
It indeed so happens, he said.
To these, said I, such trifles do add up: the teacher, in such a case, fears his pupils and fawns upon them, while pupils have in low esteem their teachers as well as their overseers; and, overall, the young copy the elders and contend hotly with them in words and in deeds, while the elders, lowering themselves to the level of the young, sate themselves with pleasantries [563b] and wit, mimicking the young in order not to look unpleasant and despotic.

Yet, companies like Microsoft, the technofascists and the Obama administration see this sorry state of things as an opportunity. Young people are the most impressionable. They do not have the wisdom or the experience to understand or recognize the Trojan horse that is politics and propaganda. It is always the youth that is the tool of dictatorship, whether that dictatorship be one of a political or corporate nature.

But you can always count on some dolt over at the Seattle PI to write something like this, to further illustrate the how completely clueless these tech-worshipers are in regards to the nature of the education problem in America:

In 1703, he said, teachers were concerned about the use of slates. A century later there were fears that students were using paper too much. In 1907, some officials warned that pencils were being replaced by ink. Thirty years later, a report said that students were "wallowing" in the luxury of fountain pens. And in 1950, ballpoint pens were referred to as the possible "ruin of education." Educators urged to adapt to students' tech lifestyles,

This is NOT about ballpoint pens and paper. These are tools that we should use. Technology is great and should be used. This is about the quality of discipline and the nature of the education being offered to our young people. We have an entire generation that can text faster than a speeding bullet, leap tall mountains in World of Warcraft and swallow large quantities of Rock Star in a single gulp. The destruction of respect, the sleazy love affair with youth culture and the replacement of knowledge with subversive creativity and cleverness is the death knell of American Civilization as we know it.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. -Plato

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American Liberals: The New Hegelians, the Heralds of Approaching Change

The frivolity and boredom which unsettle the established order, the vague foreboding of something unknown, these are the heralds of approaching change. The gradual crumbling that left unaltered the face of the whole is cut short by a sunburst which, in one flash ,illuminates the features of the new world. - Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

Liberalism is decidedly Hegelian.  Okay, so maybe a few curious readers of this blog will then go over to Amazon and buy Hegel's masterpiece, The Phenomenology of Spirit, just to check it out for themselves. Unfortunately, the work is as arduous and as contradictory as the liberal mind itself. The reading of it is no easy task. At the same time, you know the American saying: good things come to those who work.  I think that if more conservatives help each other understand who Hegel is and how his ideas have shaped liberal fascism yesterday, today and tomorrow, the more we will be able to fight off the monster that threatens the very existence of freedom in the world today.

I haven't read Hegel in many years. But I think it is high time that I take a look back. His extreme idealism was not as striking when I first read him as a student at Boston University's Dept of Philosophy, because I myself was just as idealistic. I was however (and still am) a Platonist, which pretty much meant I despised Hegel and so put him down eagerly. There you go - that was my idealism. Boy did I miss out on learning all about the true origins and foundations of what Michael Savage now calls a mental disorder.

When I started this blog, I did it with the intention of educating myself and my readers, regarding what really motivates and moves politics, namely, ideas.  I do not of course have the answers, so this is not a blog to come to when you want those. I specifically started the blog because I want to begin the learning process and would like to share it with others who also wish to join in. We can talk about the issues of the day, and I will continue to do so, but at some point we need to get to the bottom of all this, the root of all evil, the cancer that is currently spreading throughout the body politic.

A good place to start looking for this cancer would be Hegel and in particular his Phenomenology of Spirit, a work that, written in 1807, inspired the likes of our friend Karl Marx; for Hegel, in his Phenomenology, describes the ultimate goal of the Collective Spirit is to end the movement, the ebb and flow of History, much in the same way Marx describes the ultimate achievement that is Communism. In fact, to be specific, the end of History, for Hegel and Hegelians is the fusion of the individual with the collective: "Absolute freedom has thus removed the antithesis between the universal and the individual will" (Hegel, Phenomenology). For Hegel, this is what "Finding oneself" means, just like Oprah perhaps.

I suppose that the first thing to know about Hegel is that he appeals to the idealistic. He appeals to the young and the inexperienced; and he appeals to those who are far too removed from "Joe the Plumber" types to understand the first thing about crap and what to do with it. As a result, where you find a "Young Hegelian" type, you will find nearby, but usually hidden, piles of bullshit. Some of us pay lots of money to send our children to places like these. They usually come back stinking. I know I did.

Okay, so why do I say he appeals to these groups of people? The first reason that comes to mind is that Hegelian thought justifies the means to any end and so in a very specific way, it absolves people from any moral responsibility or conscious thought about what they are doing.  In other words, Hegelian liberals are  always willing to crack a few eggs in order to deliver the big golden one to the world. It does not matter what the golden one is as long as they convince themselves that it is a stepping stone towards the achievement of communism, collective and happy Spirit. It could be racial equality, the dissolution of classes, the end of private greed, the prevention of global warming. The means towards achieving the these ends, and the ultimate end (which is the end of History itself) could be eugenics, Nazism, Pol Pot, Lenin, Al Gore, Barack Obama.

So Hegelian justice, if you wish to call it that, takes the place of the classical notion of divine justice. In other words, Hegel's thought is decidedly atheistic and Darwinian, which is one reason Marx and the Young Hegelians of Prussia slobbered all over him, and ushered in the murderous and fascist dictatorships to come.   Hegelian justice appeals to the unbridled ego who hasn't yet learned that it is not a god, and who believes that it has overthrown God Himself. You see, for Hegel, Spirit, the collective Spirit IS God. We just don't know it yet.

But some who profess to know it already have been in the news as of late.

William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. They believe they are working towards the achievement, not of their own, but of History itself. His belief in the evolution and revolution of History and its eventually culmination in the realization of collective Spirit, is how Ayers can get up every morning and NOT turn himself into the authorities. It is how, contrary to seeing himself as being a terrorist, he sees himself as a kind of prophet.  Terrorism was a necessary means that he does not regret, as we all know and don't seem to understand.

As an example of his Hegelianism, I found this little piece on his blog, where he praises the words of James Baldwin. In Ayers own estimation (which he loves and prizes as highly as Christians prize Jesus himself), Baldwin is brilliant:

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word ‘love’ here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace – not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth. - Bill Ayers

"Not in the personal sense". This is key to understanding liberal Hegelians. They depersonalize and THAT is their method of justifying their criminal and destructive behavior. They believe that the rest of us are infantile apes who still dwell in the soup of our individual concerns and loves. We are the selfish capitalists, the ones that prize our own property, the ones who still cling to our Bibles and our Guns.

Now keep this idea in mind. Ayers views himself as a more evolved individual, one that identifies himself with the moving Spirit and evolution of history. This is why he said, "Education is the motor-force of revolution." , a quote that I included in this post called Ayers and Obama: Different Men, Same Ideas. So keeping that in mind. Read closely Hegel's own words about the infantile state of anything in development and consider that in Ayers' case, and probably Obama's as well, we are still in that infantile state.

Besides, it is not difficult to see that ours is a birth time and a period of transition to a new era. Spirit has broken with the world it has hitherto inhabited and imagined, and is of a mind to submerge it in the past , and in the labour of its own transformation. Spirit is indeed never at rest but always engaged in moving forward. But just as the first breath drawn by a child after its long, quiet nourishment breaks the gradualness of merely quantitative growth - there is a  qualitative leap, and the child is born - so likewise the  Spirit in its formation matures slowly and quietly into its new shape, dissolving bit by bit the structure of its previous world, whose tottering state is only hinted at by isolated symptoms. The frivolity and boredom which unsettle the established order, the vague foreboding of something unknown, these are the heralds of approaching change. The gradual crumbling that left unaltered the face of the whole is cut short by a sunburst which, in one flash ,illuminates the features of the new world.  - Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

Gives a whole new meaning to "nanny state", yes?

More to come on Hegel. I am just getting started.

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Obama, the United Nations and Our Children

Being a new mother, I have grave concerns as to what the future holds for my little girl ,and I am particularly concerned about the kind of education she will receive. I know that education is not usually  on the forefront of people's minds when electing the President of the United States. Most people are concerned more with the economy, taxes or healthcare. These also are critical issues, but education is probably more important than any of these. The kind of education our children receive will determine the shape of their lives, the shape of our nation and the shape of our communities. Education is the cultivation and preservation of our future as a nation and will determine how are children deal with the problems that they will confront. If we give up our involvement in the education of our children to the government or the United Nations or some other powerful entity, we will lose our children and so too, our nation. Just like parents who lost their children or their lives to the Hitler Youth, so too will American parents lose their children to a world that has traded American freedoms for something else entirely.

Unfortunately, when Obama talks about what "Obama and Biden" will do for our children's education, he says that he will throw more money into the educational system.

"Obama and Biden will create Early Learning Challenge Grants to promote state "zero to five" efforts and help states move toward voluntary, universal pre-school."
"Obama and Biden will quadruple Early Head Start, increase Head Start funding and improve quality for both."
"Obama and Biden will also provide affordable and high-quality child care to ease the burden on working families." - BarackObama.com

Obama is hiding something, namely, his true agenda. Money cannot buy wisdom; it can't even buy intelligence. Now Obama is a lot of things, but he is not an idiot. He is just avoiding the topic.

Now, having had a classical education myself, I understand the value of teaching kids ancient languages, history, literature, math, science and awareness of their own culture, religion and nation. To me, the cultivation of the mind will naturally result in more thoughtful and deliberate action in life. A mind can only be exercised in that manner in a nation that values and defends freedom.

A nation that does not value freedom no longer educates, it brainwashes.

I wrote a post a few days ago about the relationship between Ayers and Obama called Ayers and Obama: Different Men, The Same Ideas. I don't want to reiterate what I say in that post, so it will be sufficient that I simply quote Ayers again where he said:

'"Education is the motor-force of revolution."

Obama has minimized Ayers as much as he has minimized his true intentions regarding education in America. I assert that Ayers is the "motor-force" of Obama.

William Ayers: Educational Terrorist

William Ayers, Obama's friend and unrepentant domestic terrorist, has ingratiated himself into America's educational system. Americans do not know this because they pay little attention to what goes on in academia:

Courses that taught young children to feel good about being Americans are being replaced by a system that teaches them to be ashamed of being Americans. Spreading out from the schools that teach our teachers, the ideology that is promoted by William Ayers is revolutionary and anti-American. Ayers has entered his sixties, his lust for violence seems to have diminished, but his revolutionary ardor has not. Instead of planting bombs, he has been a key force in harming our schools and our children. - American Thinker

Ayers' method of teaching is, at bottom, built upon the agenda of overthrowing the capitalist system.

Ayers has subsequently written a best seller used in ed-school courses which focuses on the moral imperative of teaching social justice to students in K-12 classrooms. He has been active in "teaching teachers" that capitalism is a curse and imperialism is an American obsession. -American Thinker

Ayers wants to turn our children into radicals, not children who want to improve American life, improve their minds and expand their imaginations. He wants to create a generation of community organizers and activists who want nothing less than the complete overthrow of the "capitalist"  system.  This is not to say that communists have not been teaching in American schools before. They have, but times have changed. The U.N. has become more powerful and we are about to elect a Marxist for President of the United States.

Ayers' educational agenda is completely compatible with the agenda of the United Nations. They too want to use the natural energy and idealism of youth in order to further the agenda of the United Nations. They want to create a world of young activist "soldiers" to usher in the new age of globalism. The soldiers in the United States are called SustainUS. To get a sense of how they view themselves, here is a quote from Whit Jones, a SustainUS delegate:

In the halls of the UN Climate Negotiations, there is a new presence felt. A growing, cohesive group of youth is storming the negotiating sessions, holding daily creative demonstrations, and meeting face-to-face with their government delegations. They are here to provide a face to the future, to speak for future generations, and to plan for the future of their movement. We've made formal interventions in the negotiations, hosted "mock swimming lesions" to emphasize the urgency of the situation, and are actively broadcasting a fresh perspective of the conference through photo and video.

The youth are carving out a space of their own here at the UN. In the true spirit of global cooperation and collaboration, daily meetings are held for regions, continents, and global youth. The meetings are held to plan for both activities here and in the coming years. Since we are not afforded office space, many of these gatherings are held underneath a staircase, in an area affectionately known as "The Bunker." It is a source of incredible energy and enthusiasm, and the hub of all things New Media. Youth are email blasting their home networks, blogging, uploading to YouTube, all to tell their own story. It is a story of frustration and enduring vigilance; but it is also a story of hope that if youth continue to emerge as leaders, we can set an example for the global community and lead the way to a scientifically-credible and just global agreement.

Each day of this conference, I have been amazed by new youth organizations, networks, and activities around the world. We are working to make our communities sustainable, organizing at the grassroots, and building stronger, more robust movements. We recognize that climate change is the issue of our generation, and we intend to take our future into our own hands. We'll be forging new partnerships across boundaries, and working strategically together, so that we can create a powerful global youth climate movement that cannot be ignored. UN Dispatch

So what exactly is this youth movement doing? What is their agenda? The issue that the youth movement focuses on most is climate change. Why climate change? Because climate change and environmental issues are going to replace war. The goal of the United Nations is disarmament and peace. This is why their army is not called an army. They are called Peacekeepers.  The enemy of the future will not another nation or terrorism. The enemy will be those who disregard, argue with or fight against the mission of the United Nations.  Even as I write this post, I was just made aware, via AtlasShrugs of an article written by Bruce Bawer called the Peace Racket. In it he says:

Peace studies initiatives may train students to be social workers, to work in churches or community health organizations, or to resolve family quarrels and neighborhood disputes. At the movement’s heart, though, are programs whose purported emphasis is on international relations. Their founding father is a 77-year-old Norwegian professor, Johan Galtung, who established the International Peace Research Institute in 1959 and the Journal of Peace Research five years later. Invariably portrayed in the media as a charismatic and (these days) grandfatherly champion of decency, Galtung is in fact a lifelong enemy of freedom. In 1973, he thundered that “our time’s grotesque reality” was—no, not the Gulag or the Cultural Revolution, but rather the West’s “structural fascism.” He’s called America a “killer country,” accused it of “neo-fascist state terrorism,” and gleefully prophesied that it will soon follow Britain “into the graveyard of empires.”

Sound familiar? There has been over the years a persistent and evil beast growing in America that takes joy in seeing a great nation fall to her knees. That joy will be experienced if Obama becomes the next President of the United States:

One American employee here seemed puzzled that he was being asked whether Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was even a consideration. "Obama was and is unstoppable," the official said. "Please, God, let him win," he added.

"It would be hard to find anybody, I think, at the U.N. who would not believe that Obama would be a considerable improvement over any other alternative," said William H. Luers, executive director of the United Nations Association. "It's been a bad eight years, and there is a lot of bad feeling over it."

Conservatives who are skeptical of the United Nations said they are not surprised by the political tilt. "The fact is that most conservatives, most Republicans don't worship at the altar in New York, and I think that aggravates them more than anything else," said John R. Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. "What they want is the bending of the knee, and they'll get it from an Obama administration." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/25/AR2008102502011.html?hpid=topnews

The following is the final section of the SustainUS charter. Please read it and consider as to whether or not you want your children to become members of this global brainwashing asylum called the U.N. The link to the entire piece is at the bottom.

66. No state in history has ever occupied such a dominant position in world affairs as the
United States does today. With the world’s most powerful military and strongest
economy, can make or break the international efforts to achieve a sustainable future. Our
country has long emphasized the importance of concepts like accountability,
transparency, and human rights; the U.S. must continue its commitment to these ideals in
the 21st century, both domestically and internationally, and incorporate sustainable
development into its main priorities and values. We, as empowered American citizens,
will do our part for advocate for a U.S. foreign policy that makes us proud.
67. The U.S. should be a responsible global citizen. Our country should pay all dues to all
international institutions, programs, and ventures in a timely fashion. The U.S. should not
obstruct any effort to advance sustainable development or human rights that enjoys a
broad international coalition.
68. As host of the UN, the U.S. should recognize the necessity of universal participation
at international conferences. With that in consideration, the U.S. should provide visas to
all foreign delegates to the United Nations, be they in government, civil society, or
business.
69. The U.S. should immediately ratify all agreements that advance sustainable
development, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Kyoto Protocol,
and the Convention on Biological Diversity.
70. The U.S. government should fulfill the commitment made by President George H.W.
Bush at UNCED to allocate 0.7% of our GDP to ODA for developing countries. The
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) should cooperate with the
IFI’s, foreign aid organizations, private donors to coordinate strategies. USAID should
also consult stakeholders and consider the different needs and development goals of each
recipient country to produce effective assistance plans.
71. In keeping with its commitments to free trade, the U.S. government should cease to
offer subsidies to industries that compete with their counterparts in trade partner
countries. In particular, the U.S. should discontinue subsidies for the agricultural and
steel industries.
72. Technology transfer to developing countries will be one of the primary means of
implementation for sustainable development. The U.S. offer financial incentives to
corporations that share technology with private enterprise in the developing world.
72. The U.S. should adopt measures to improve voter turnout and citizen participation in
government, including same day voter registration. The U.S. should also take steps to
increase the level of public funding for elections.
73. Creating an environment of gender equality, particularly in the workplace and
schools, should be a priority in the U.S. The U.S. government should reaffirm its
commitment to that ideal by ratifying CEDAW.
74. The U.S. government should collaborate with local authorities and civil society to
maintain and establish community gardens, which can serve to educate people in the U.S.
about local growing conditions and potential for agriculture.
X. Our Mission
75. As responsible and concerned citizens, we will work tirelessly to advocate for our
vision of a sustainable future. We will continue to educate our peers, our communities,
and ourselves. Inevitably, as a result of our continuing education, our vision will evolve.
Our commitment, though, will remain steadfast until the promise of sustainable
development becomes a reality. - SustainUS.Org

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Rashid Khalidi: Media REFUSES to Release Video of Obama Toasting Jew Hater

I am not sure what is worse, the relationship between Obama and Khalidi or the fact that the LA Slimes is withholding this news in order to protect Obama. I have never in my lifetime seen such deliberate and CONSPICUOUS attempts to deceive and defraud the public. It is absolutely astounding.

It is almost as if there is a wicked and subterranean cabal just dying for some hot headed NRA member to fire a shot, so that they can turn around, confiscate firearms, and force Rush Limbaugh's show to be strangled in between Al Franken and Jon Stewart, assuring a slow and painful death to the AM band.

Gateway Pundit is reporting  that The LA Times refuses to release video of Obama toasting close friend & Jew-hater Rashid Khalidi--
Khalidi and the Obamas were great friends in Chicago and often spent time at each other's homes.
Khalidi was also best friends with Bill Ayers.



Terrorist Bill Ayers- Barack Obama- Jew-hater Rashid Khalidi
Not only does Barack Obama's church of 20 years support Hamas and Hezbollah but Barack Obama also has a longtime close friendship and financial association with suspected former PLO operative and Israel hater Rashid Khalidi.

Barack Obama funnelled thousands of dollars of cash to Rashidi's anti-Israel Foundation through his work on the Woods Fund.
In 2000, Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative who justified Palestinian terrorism as contributing to "political enlightenment," threw a fundraiser for his friend Barack Obama.
Although he is described as a former PLO operative, via Free Republic, this is what Rashid Khalidi has to say about Palestinian terrorism against Jews-- he said anti-Israel violence contributed to "political enlightenment":

On Palestinian violence. Khalidi glorifies anti-Israel violence as contributing to “political enlightenment”[vii] and unsurprisingly admires those who carry it out. His loyalty to Palestinian terrorist groups run so deep that he actually dedicated his 1986 valentine to the PLO, Under Siege, to “those who gave their lives . . . in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon.”[viii] The book whitewashes PLO violence against Israelis and Lebanese, as well as the Syrian occupation.

The LA Times wrote an article about Obama's association with Rashid Khalidi in April:

It was a celebration of Palestinian culture -- a night of music, dancing and a dash of politics. Local Arab Americans were bidding farewell to Rashid Khalidi, an internationally known scholar, critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights, who was leaving town for a job in New York.
A special tribute came from Khalidi's friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking.
In 2000, the Khalidis held a fundraiser for Obama's unsuccessful congressional bid. The next year, a social service group whose board was headed by Mona Khalidi received a $40,000 grant from a local charity, the Woods Fund of Chicago, when Obama served on the fund's board of directors...
At Khalidi's going-away party in 2003, the scholar lavished praise on Obama, telling the mostly Palestinian American crowd that the state senator deserved their help in winning a U.S. Senate seat. "You will not have a better senator under any circumstances," Khalidi said.
The event was videotaped, and a copy of the tape was obtained by The Times.

More here..

 

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Ayers' Group Planned Genocide

Ayers' group planned on creating reeducation camps and KILL any of those who would not comply.  They planned on killing 25 million people!

 

This is NOT an anti-Obama video. This interview was taken in the 1980s.

Undercover agent Larry Grathwohl discusses the Weather Underground's post-revolution governing plans for the United States. From the 1982 documentary "No Place to Hide" . See the rest of the videos here

 

 

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Ayers' Forgotten Communist Manifesto: Prairie Fire

From ZombieTime.

William Ayers is a communist. But don't take my word for it. He said so himself:

And not some nicey-nice peace-and-love kind of communist. Through his group the Weather Underground, Ayers was planning to "seize power" in a violent communist takeover of the United States:

 

The quotes above were scanned directly from a now long-forgotten book entitled Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism, which was written and published in 1974 by William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and other members of the Weather Underground. In this slim volume, which functioned as the Weather Underground's ideological manifesto, Ayers declares himself to be a communist, and announces that his group's bombing campaign was intended to start a violent revolution to overthrow the American government.

 

 

Here is a list of all the bombings  carried out by Ayers organization

 

How does Ayer's feel about Israel?

 

 

 

Read all of it here at ZombieTime..

Also check out my piece on Ayers and Obama here.

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One Honest Liberal Democrat Speaks about Obama/Ayers Controversy

If your liberal friends don't believe what you say about Ayers/Obama ties because you are conservative, send them this article:

 

Correspondent G, whom you may know from previous posts, wrote a letter to FactCheck.org on their treatment of the Obama/Ayers linkage. (FactCheck, perhaps not-so-coincidentally, is a creature of the Annenberg fund.) G's long and impeccably-researched text is, in my view, the most rational and comprehensible rejoinder ever provided to those who would pooh-pooh the candidate's longstanding connection to Ayers. I am proud to present this piece, which I've edited slightly for format (embedding the links and so forth).
Yes, this is a long read. Nevertheless, I urge you to take the time to go over it -- at the end, you'll be ten or twenty times smarter than the average bear. Everything that follows comes from G, who provides the documented facts that FactCheck would prefer to ignore:

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Factcheck.org,
I've been following the Obama/Ayers story closely for many months, and I'm writing regarding your Factcheck on the McCain ad..
I'm a liberal/left Democrat. I cringe at these kinds of ads, and I think this ad does contains elements that distort some of the facts.
However, I believe that there are important omissions/flaws in your Factcheck. My apologies for a long e-mail, but I think that in this case, some of the details are crucial.
I'll cover three points below.
1. I do think it is accurate to say that Obama and the Obama campaign have offered misleading (and in some cases false) statements about Obama's relationship with Ayers.
2. Your characterization of Ayers omits crucial elements.
3. I think it's clearly misleading for the ad to use the terms ' radical education foundation'. But, even here, there's a small kernel of truth. -

 

Read the whole article here by Joseph Cannon

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Ayers and Obama: Different Men, The Same Ideas

"Education is the motor-force of revolution." - William Ayers

The entire internet is ablaze with articles illustrating the relationship between Bill Ayers and Obama. No matter what Obama says Bill Ayers is more than just a neighbor down the street. Anyone who has any ounce of integrity is able to do their own research and probably come to the same conclusion - at least- that most sane people come to: Bill and Obama are closely related in some way.

Now the purpose of this post is not to offer you proof of their relationship - there is already plenty of that out there. What ought to be even more important than whether or not they shared an office, a home or a cabinet, is whether or not they share ideas.

First thing you have to know about the progressive radical movement in the United States of America is that they know that their agenda would not be acceptable to the American people. They know that, if they show their true colors, their true associations, they will be found out.  For example, in 2006 Bill Ayers was not invited by colleagues with whom he worked for years, to a progressive conference on education. They let Ayers know about this by leaving a letter on his desktop:

They said in the body of the letter: we want to position progressive education not as radical, but as familiar and good. Now that just steamed up my ears because if you’re saying you’re a progressive educator… That’s one of the things that’s actually annoyed me for about 40 years of being a progressive educator: the separation of the concept of progressive education from the concept of politics and political change. You can’t separate them…and this is a contradiction, incidentally, that goes all the way back to the beginning of progressive education and really the beginning of the conversations about the relationship between school and society. But John Dewey was one of the brilliant, brilliant writers about what democratic education would look like and was himself an independent socialist. But he never resolved a central contradiction in our work, the contradiction between trying to change the school and being embedded in society that has the exact opposite values culturally and politically and socially from the values you’re trying to build in a classroom. This contradiction is something progressive educators should address, not dodge. So this is what got me going. That’s a short version. - Revolution, Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, 2006

The one thing that actually annoys him, may not annoy him any longer. Perhaps the solution to that annoyance is Barack Hussein Obama. Just perhaps. In any case, Obama also knows, like a good progressive, to keep his progressive ties in the closet.

 

Ayers the Poet

So much of what’s wrong in our schools today is simply the ho-hum of common sense and the hum-drum of tradition tooling along mindlessly like a wind-up toy off its leash" - Ayers

If you read Ayers' writings, they read like poetry. Not great poetry. Just poetry.  Don't expect to find much reason in his thought. What he stands for is anti-reason. Anything that will thwart, undermine and destroy "common sense", which is the basis of civilized life, is fair game to him. He has absolutely no respect for it,which is why he has no regrets about the violence he engaged in back in the 1960s. Of course now he has changed, but he has changed only in that he no longer as of yet plans on detonating bombs. No, he has found something much much worse to destroy, namely, YOUR children.

Ayers’s spectacular second act began when he enrolled at Columbia University’s Teachers College in 1984. Then 40, he planned to stay just to get a teaching credential. (He had taught in a “Freedom School” during his pre-underground student radical days.) But he experienced an epiphany in a course taught by Maxine Greene, a leading light of the “critical pedagogy” movement. As Ayers wrote later, he took fire from Greene’s lectures on how the “oppressive hegemony” of the capitalist social order “reproduces” itself through the traditional practice of public schooling—critical pedagogy’s fancy way of saying that the evil corporations exercise thought control through the schools. - Sol Stern

The principles of politics and political life are not the same as those of art and the imagination. Ayers consistently, like a high school teenager, confounds the two because he is, at bottom a megalomaniac who cannot distinguish between his own inner emotional desires and public justice. The entire progressive movement is based on this childish self-centered vision of a world without moral, ethical or national boundaries. His ideas, which often take huge leaps into the ozone layer with no footing or foundation, always appeal to those who are emotionally vulnerable enough and uneducated even more to not comprehend the difference between the possible and the impossible, or between pure rhetoric and truth:

Future teachers signing up for Ayers’s course “On Urban Education” can read these exhortations from the course description on the professor’s website:

“Homelessness, crime, racism, oppression—we have the resources and knowledge to fight and overcome these things.”

“We need to look beyond our isolated situations, to define our problems globally. We cannot be child advocates . . . in Chicago or New York and ignore the web that links us with the children of India or Palestine.”

“In a truly just society there would be a greater sharing of the burden, a fairer distribution of material and human resources.”

For another course, titled “Improving Learning Environments,” Ayers proposes that teachers “be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and . . . be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, a teacher teaching for social justice and liberation.” - Sol Stern

Just as much style as the man of hope and struggle himself,  Barack Hussein Obama. Just as much lacking in substance. Even more than enough venom to poison an entire generation. Just for Truth's sake, I will include something a little more honest from Mr. Ayers:

"Anyone who salutes your ‘youthful idealism’ is a patronizing reactionary. Resist! Don’t grow up! I went to Camp Casey [Cindy Sheehan’s vigil at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas] in August precisely because I’m an agnostic about how and where the rebellion will break out, but I know I want to be there and I know it will break out.” - Bill Ayers, The Ed Schools’ Latest—and Worst—Humbug

ACORN

Progressives pick up all sorts of causes. They feign to speak up for the downtrodden, the poor, the sick, the abandoned. This is mostly because these groups of people are vulnerable and weak enough to easily be taken in by those who pretend to reach out to them. For example, ACORN, a progressively operated community organization encourages their workers to break the law, ignore the rules and engage in bribery and lies for the sake of meeting their quotas. ACORN does not help anyone. It does not help people to go out and get an honest job and provide for the families in this country. It only ensures people that they will continue to be enslaved by the progressive movements exaggerated bogey-man, namely, America itself:

Pushed to meet daily quotas and bullied by bosses if they didn't, Ohio ACORN workers faked voter registrations, signed up people more than once, and even paid off registrants to keep from being fired, its canvassers told The Post.

"Every day, there was pressure on us. Every single day," said Teshika Elder, a Cleveland single mom of three who worked for ACORN this summer.

"We had meetings every morning where they'd go over your quota; they'd yell at you if you were low," said Elder, 21. "They'd sit us down and say if you didn't do better, they'd suspend you. They'd say, 'Try harder next time,' [and] if you didn't get it, you'd be fired."

Desperate canvassers sometimes resorted to trading cigarettes, cash and food in exchange for registrations, according to Elder and two other former ACORN workers, Jaymes Sanford, 18, and Selvin Cunningham, 23.

Some voters were signed up more than once, and said that worried - or lazy - canvassers sometimes filled out bogus cards.

The three workers were all fired after they and a dozen other canvassers were identified in a Cuyahoga County Election Board probe as having turned in multiple registrations for the same voters.

The board, which estimates it got more than 8,700 suspect cards - with multiple registrations, bad addresses or phony information - from ACORN has turned the matter over to local prosecutors.

"It was just little stuff - a dollar, a cigarette - given to people so that they'd register," said Sanford, a former team leader.

"People are scared of not making their quotas," he said. "I didn't do it, but it's the way it worked."

Elder added, "I've got no money to give out. I don't smoke, so I had no cigarettes to offer. But other people did, and the pressure you were under forced you to."  - New York Post

Community organizing among the urban poor has been an honorable American tradition since Jane Addams’s famous Hull House dramatically uplifted the late-nineteenth-century Chicago slums, but ACORN and Addams are on different planets philosophically. Hull House and its many successors emphasized self-empowerment: the poor, they thought, could take control of their lives and communities through education, hard work, and personal responsibility. Not ACORN. It promotes a 1960s-bred agenda of anti-capitalism, central planning, victimology, and government handouts to the poor. As a result, not only does it harm the poor it claims to serve; it is also a serious threat to the urban future. - Acorn's Nutty Regime For Cities

And Obama, like Ayers, hides his ties to ACORN because progressives know they must hide.

What if Barack Obama’s most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you’d know what I was talking about. Acorn is at least as radical as these better-known groups, arguably more so. Yet because Acorn works locally, in carefully selected urban areas, its national profile is lower. Acorn likes it that way. And so, I’d wager, does Barack Obama. - Stanley Kurtz

I bring up ACORN here to make a point - the rhetoric of victimhood, or victimology is something that Obama employs regularly in his speeches. One hears it in the voices of his supporters.  From the days of Caesar through the days of Hitler to today this very day, victimology has been a prescribed way to mobilize the people against the current establishment. Most progressives, like Ayers, view themselves as being forces of history fighting the good fight against the repressive monsters of the status quo.  This is why Ayers' wife and accomplice, Bernadine Dohrn, could easily say the following about the Manson murders without any sign of regret either then or now:

"Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!"

 

Ayers the Politician

Ayers is not a politician, but he desperately wants to impact politics and society. Obama is the man who can do this for him or with him, to be more exact.  Ayers' own history is just too toxic to allow him to, at the moment, seize a government post. This could, however, change under an Obama administration.  In any case, it is no wonder that Obama launched his political career in the home of Mr. Ayers. They are, in fact, one and the same idea, in the form of two men with very different applications.

Let's look at Barack's education plan, a plan which will give the government even more power over our lives and our children's future. Don't think for a second that the progressive principles and motives for education are not brewing beneath covers of this plan.  Consider just how comprehensive this plan is - consider how much power Obama and his minions will have over the future of this country. Consider if you want America to become a full-fledged socialist -progressive country.

1. Zero-Five Plan
   1. Early Learning Challenge: Early care and educational programs for pregnant women and children from birth to age five to address gaps in services and enhance quality programs that serve all young children.
   2. Early Head Start: Quadruple funding and improve quality; $250 million dedicated funds to create or expand regional training centers.
   3. Voluntary, Universal Pre-School:  Provide funding to accelerate the trend toward voluntary, universal pre-school for all.
   4. Child Care Development Block Grant Program: Increase funding that remained unchanged under the Bush administration.
   5. Child Care Quality: Double resources within the Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) program to develop quality-rating systems for child care that reflect higher standards and supports for teacher training and professional development, improving student/teacher ratios, providing family support in child care settings, and increasing professional development and teacher training.
   6. Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs:  Expand programs to all low-income, first-time mothers, assisting approximately 570,000 first time mothers each year.
   7. Presidential Early Learning Council:  Encourage dialogue among programs at federal and state levels, and within the private and nonprofit sectors, to collect and disseminate the most valid and up-to-date research on early learning.

1. Transform the Teaching Profession
   1. Teacher Service Scholarships: Pays for four years of undergraduate teacher education or two years of post-graduate in return for four years of teaching service.
   2. All Schools Accredited: [What will be the impact on home schoolers and charter schools?]
   3. Teacher Residency Program: Obama will supply 30,000 exceptionally well-prepared recruits to what eduspeak calls high-need schools. 
   4. Career Ladder Initiatives:  Expanded teacher mentoring programs will pair experienced teachers with new recruits and provide incentives to give teachers paid common planning time so they can collaborate to share best practices.  These initiatives will provide federal resources to states and districts to help create mentoring programs.  Obama will provide $1 billion in funding to create mentoring programs and reward veteran teachers for becoming mentors.
   5. Reward Teachers: Obama will promote new and innovative ways to increase teacher pay. To be developed with teachers, not imposed on them.
   6. Middle School Intervention Strategies: Provide funding to school districts to invest in interventional strategies in middle schools such as personal academic plans, teaching teams, parent involvement, mentoring, intensive reading and math instruction, and extended learning time.
   7. STEP UP Plan: Addresses achievement gap by supporting summer learning opportunities for disadvantaged children.
   8. Professional Development Schools: Obama will provide $100 million to stimulate teacher education reforms built on school university partnerships.  
   9. State Leadership Academies: Obama will provide funding for academies to enable principals to develop the sophisticated skills they need and provide ongoing financial support.  Obama's plan will also support research about the effectiveness of various approaches to principal training.

1. Helping At-Risk Children Succeed in School
   1. Additional Learning Time: Obama will create a $200 million grant program for states and district that want to provide additional learning time for students in need.
   2. The Success in the Middle Act: This legislation, sponsored by Obama, would provide federal support to improve the education of middle grades students in low-performing schools.  It requires states to develop a detailed plan to improve student improvement.

1. Redesigned Schools
   1. Reorganization: Obama will support federal efforts to continue to encourage schools to organize themselves for greater success by developing stronger relationships among adults and students, a more engaging curriculum, more adaptive teaching, and more opportunities for teachers to plan and learn together.
   2. Competitive Grants to Help Students Graduate:  Offers grants to existing or proposed public/private partnerships entities that are partnerships or entitles pursuing evidence-based models that work.
   3. Positive Behavior Support:  Obama will promote a more effective and just method of addressing behavioral problems in school.
   4. R&D Programs for Improving Science Education: Obama will double our investment in early education and educational R&D by the end of his first term.  Part of this funding will go toward improving science education.

1. Expanding After-school Opportunities
1. Expanding 21^st Century Learning Centers Program: Obama will double funding for this main federal support for after-school programs to serve one million more children each year.
2. [For more, read the Blueprint and linked documents.]  -American Thinker

On Obama's website, he states that he will create an "army" of teachers. That militant metaphor does not escape me. Nor does it escape Bill Ayers who is still "waiting" for that big revolution to come...

 

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Amazing Ayers Audio Unearthed from Same Week Obama worked with him

Thanks to Atlas for bringing this to my attention.

 

Midway, the video compares statements of Ayers side by side with Obama's statements.

A few examples:

On Patriotism:

Ayers: "That the country is unanimous in this kind of suffocating narrow view of what September 11th represents and what it means and therefore you would kind of concluded in DESPAIR that everyone is a BORN AGAIN PATRIOT"

Obama: "I won't wear that pin on my chest. Instead I will tell the American people what I believe will make this country great"

 

On Marxism

Ayers: "I consider myself partly an anarchist then and consider myself partly an anarchist now. I mean I'm as much an anarchist as I am a Marxist"

Obama: "I think that when you spread the wealth around, its good for everybody"
(The Gadfly would like to add his speech given at Knox. Please see this article for more on Obama and Marxism. The video also quotes Marx here, giving the point more power: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs".

Please watch this video and pass it along.

 

 

 

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