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"Christopher Columbus sailed the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria across the Atlantic Ocean in an effort to find a sea route to the East. Do you know why the Western World was looking for a sea route? Because the land route took traders and travelers through part of the world controlled by Islamic armies that bear more than a passing resemblance to today's jihadists."Thus, the very birth of America is directly tied to the longest war in human history -- the conflict between Islam and the West. But the intersection of American history and Islam didn't end there -- despite the distance of the New World from the center of Islamic imperialism. "In 1784, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin were commissioned by the first Congress to assemble in Paris to see about marketing U.S. products in Europe. "Jefferson quickly surmised that the biggest challenges facing U.S. merchant ships were those referred to euphemistically as 'Barbary pirates.' "They weren't 'pirates' at all, in the traditional sense, Jefferson noticed. They didn't drink and chase women and they really weren't out to strike it rich. Instead, their motivation was strictly religious. They bought and sold slaves, to be sure. They looted ships. But they used their booty to buy guns, ships, cannon and ammunition. "Like those we call 'terrorists' today, they saw themselves engaged in jihad and called themselves 'mujahiddin.' Many today still use the term 'mujahedeen.' [. . .] "Jefferson inquired of his European hosts how they dealt with the problem. He was stunned to find out that France and England both paid tribute to the fiends -- who would, in turn, use the money to expand their own armada, buy more weaponry, hijack more commercial ships, enslave more innocent civilians and demand greater ransoms. [. . .] "As the first secretary of state, Jefferson urged the building of a navy to rescue American hostages held in North Africa and to deter future attacks on U.S. ships. [. . .] "Jefferson was ready to retire a year later when what could only be described as 'America's first Sept. 11' happened. [. . .] "America was struck with its first mega-terror attack by jihadists. In the fall of 1793, the Algerians seized 11 U.S. merchant ships and enslaved more than 100 Americans. "When word of the attack reached New York, the stock market crashed. Voyages were canceled in every major port. Seamen were thrown out of work. Ship suppliers went out of business. What Sept. 11 did to the U.S. economy in 2001, the mass shipjacking of 1793 did to the fledgling U.S. economy in that year. [. . .] "The war that we fight today is the longest conflict in human history. It's time to learn from history, not repeat its mistakes." -- Excerpts from "My Prescription for Peace," by Joseph Farah, Whistleblower, October 2006, pages 3, 44. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website..
"Have you ever wondered how the Federal Reserve worked? [. . .]"How in the world did a private corporation get the power to dictate interest rates? And what other powers and privileges has your government bestowed upon these gilded knights? "It all started back in 1913 in what some who have studied the development carefully describe as a coup d'etat that took place in America with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act. "The act was an attempt to take advantage of popular opinion in the United States for banking 'reforms.' You know how Americans love 'reforms.' In effect, however, it was not 'reform' ar all. It was a power grab -- a coup in which a small group of bankers got a blank check to set monetary policy, and, thus, all policy, for the entire nation. No watchdogs. No guardrails. No accountability. Nada. Zip. Zilch. [. . .] "The very name 'Federal Reserve Bank' was designed to deceive. It is not federal. It is not a government agency. It is privately owned. In short, it is nothing more than a group of private banks charging interest on money that never actually existed. [. . .] "In a nutshell, here's how this Fed scheme works: The government prints $100 billion in interest-bearing U.S. bonds and takes them to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve places the $100 billion in a checking account and the government writes checks against the balance. "In other words, we -- the American people allow this private banking system to create money out of thin air. And the bankers get interest on it forever. "It's a legalized counterfeiting operation -- pure and simple." -- Excerpts from "Exposing the Beast," by Joseph Farah, Whistleblower, July 2006, pages 3, 44. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website.
"In response to its critics, the SPP [Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America] has added a 'SPP Myths Vs Facts' section to its web site at www.SPP.gov. According to the 'Myths Vs Facts' document the SPP is simply a 'dialog' among the three countries [ US, Canada, Mexico] to 'enhance prosperity.' It goes on to say the SPP is not an agreement, nor is it a treaty. It says 'no agreement was ever signed.'"The truth is, on March 23, 2005, President Bush met at his ranch in Crawford, Texas with Vicente Fox and Paul Martin (then PM of Canada) in what they called a Summit. The three heads of state then drove to Baylor University in Waco, where they issued a press release announcing their signing of an agreement to form the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). "This year, on March 31, 2006, Bush, Fox and new Canadian PM, Stephen Harper met in Cancun, Mexico. This time their press release celebrated what they called the first . anniversary of the SPP. [. . .] "[T]he SPP Myths and Facts document says it strongly rejects the idea that it is creating a European Union-like structure. "That defense is almost laughable in light of the massive activity taking place in the SPP office located in the Commerce Department. "First, one must know that the European Union was also originally sold to the nations on the European continent as simply a trade and security framework. The idea, said proponents, was to create an economic structure to allow a combined European economy to compete with the United States and other economic powerhouses. Only a few years later nations were told they needed a common currency to provide seamless trade. At the same time, the working groups organizing the EU policy began to morph into what today has become a European Union parliament, which now is working to create a means of taxation, regulation of commerce and a court system. [. . .] "NAFTA was the first step in creating a North American Union. It was sold as a means to enhance trade among the North American nations. All were promised greater exports, better jobs and better wages. In truth, NAFTA is an unmitigated failure for all but a very few. The U.S. trade deficit has soared to almost $1 tri11ion per year; The U.S. has lost some 1.5 million jobs and real wages in both the U.S. and Mexico have fallen significantly. [. . .] "The United States is the most unique nation on earth. We were created out of a radical idea that free people, with their freedoms protected by the government would be happy and prosper beyond imagination. The idea worked. Now, the Bush Administration is ignoring this historic fact to 'harmonize' us with Canada and especially Mexico, which is not a free country; has no property and has just proved its unworthiness of conducting free and fair elections. At risk are our culture, our wealth, and the once proud American way of life." -- Excerpts from "The Bush Administration's Efforts to Cover up the North American Union -- Myths, Facts, Truth," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, October 2006, pages 1-3, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.
"The New American [magazine] has frequently described the origins and significance of State Department Document 7277, entitled Freedom from War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World [search]. Proposed by President John F. Kennedy in a 1961 address to the UN General Assembly, Freedom from War outlined a three-stage plan to disarm all nations -- including our own -- while simultaneously building up the UN's 'peacekeeping' capacity. That astonishing proposal was reiterated the following year in Blueprint for the Peace Race, which gave birth to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency -- the federal agency [search] entrusted with the task of working toward universal, UN-supervised disarmament."In an April 24 New York Times op-ed column, veteran U.S. arms control negotiator Max Kampelman (a former Marxist) reinvigorated the call for universal, UN-supervised nuclear disarmament. "Invoking the pleasant fantasy of 'a peaceful, civilized world free of weapons of mass destruction,' Kampelman wrote that 'our government [should] embrace the goal of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction. To this end, President Bush should consult with our allies, appear before the United Nations General Assembly and call for a resolution embracing the objective of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction. He should make clear that we are prepared to eliminate our nuclear weapons if the Security Council develops an effective regime to guarantee total conformity with a universal commitment to eliminate all nuclear arms and reaffirm the existing conventions covering chemical and biological weapons.'" -- Excerpts from "New Call for UN-administered World Disarmament," The New American, May 15, 2006, page 10. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"California requires public schools to teach Islamic history, culture and religion in the 7th grade. At the time of the 9/11 attack, the Excelsior public school in Byron, CA was teaching 7th-graders how to act like Muslims, using a student guide stating, 'From the beginning [of this module], you and your classmates will become Muslims.' The students were given Muslim names and told to recite Muslim prayers. They were required to give up things for a day to recognize the Islamic practice of Ramadan and given extra credit for fasting at lunch, too. Students were told to recite from the Koran and encouraged to wear Arab clothing. For the final exam, the students had to write an essay about Islamic culture. The assignment warned: 'BE CAREFUL HERE -- if you do not have something positive to say, don't say anything!!!'The parents filed suit, but the federal courts held entirely in favor of this school in Eklund v. Byron Union School District. On October 2,2006, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider the parents' appeal. The Byron school district continues to make the same instructional materials available for use by teachers. In 2003, this public school received a Distinguished School Award from the California Department of Education, declaring it to be one of the state's 'most exemplary and inspiring public schools'." -- Excerpts from "What Are Supremacist Judges Up to Now?" The Phyllis Schlafly Report, October 2006, page 1. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.
"Modern day globalization was launched with the creation of the Trilateral Commission in 1973 by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Its membership consisted of just over 300 powerful elitists from North America, Europe, and Japan. The clearly stated goal of the Trilateral Commission was to foster a 'New International Economic Order' that would supplant the historical economic order."In spite of its non-political rhetoric, the Trilateral Commission, nonetheless, established a headlock on the Executive Branch of the U.S. government with the election of James Earl Carter in 1976. Hand-picked as a presidential candidate by Brzezinski, Carter was personally tutored in globalist philosophy and foreign policy by Brzezinski himself. Subsequently, when Carter was sworn in as President, he appointed no less than one-third of the U.S. members of the Commission to his Cabinet and other high-level posts in his Administration. Such was the genesis of the Trilateral Commission's domination of the Executive Branch that continues to the present day. "With the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, Trilateral Commission member George H.W. Bush was introduced to the White House as Vice President. Through Bush's influence, Reagan continued to select key appointments from the ranks of the Trilateral Commission. "In 1988, George H.W. Bush began his four-year term as President. He was followed by fellow Trilateral Commission member William Jefferson Clinton, who served for 8 years as President, and appointed fourteen fellow Trilateral members to his Administration. "The election of George W. Bush in 2000 should be no surprise. Although Bush was not a member of the Trilateral Commission, his Vice President, Dick Cheney, is. In addition, Dick Cheney's wife, Lynne, is also a member of the Commission in her own right." -- Excerpts from "Toward a North American Union," by Patrick Wood, editor, The August Review, The eco-logic Powerhouse, October 2006, page 11. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, 1200 North White Sands Boulevard, Suite 110, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 505-434-8992. E-mail. Website.
"The president of the National Education Association was once asked when his union was going to do something about students. He replied that when the students became members of the union, the union would take care of them. And that was a correct answer. Why? His responsibility as president of the NEA was to serve the members of his union, not to serve public purposes. I give him credit: The trade union has been very effective in serving its members. However, in the process, they've destroyed American education. But you see, education isn't the union's function. It's our fault for allowing the union to pursue its agenda. Consider this fact: There are two areas in the United States that suffer from the same disease -- education is one and health care is the other. They both suffer from the disease that takes a system that should be bottom-up and converts it into a system that is top-down. Education is a simple case. It isn't the public purpose to build brick schools and have students taught there. The public purpose is to provide education. Think of it this way: If you want to subsidize the production of a product, there are two ways you can do it. You can subsidize the producer or you can subsidize the consumer. In education, we subsidize the producer -- the school. If you subsidize the student instead -- the consumer -- you will have competition. The student could choose the school he attends and that would force schools to improve and to meet the demands of their students."-- Excerpts from "Free to Choose: A Conversation with Milton Friedman," Imprimis, the National Speech Digest of Hillsdale College, July 2006, pages 5-6. Subscription free upon request. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. Imprimis Archive. Hillsdale College Website.
"Osama bin Laden is very articulate, very lurid, and I think on the whole very honest in the way he explains things. As he sees it, and as his followers see it, there has been an ongoing struggle between the two world religions -- Christianity and Islam -- which began with the advent of Islam in the 7th century and has been going on ever since. The Crusades were one aspect, but there were many others. It is an ongoing struggle of attack and counter-attack, conquest and reconquest, Jihad and Crusade, ending so it seems in a final victory of the West with the defeat of the Ottoman Empire -- the last of the great Muslim states -- and the partition of most of the Muslim world between the Western powers. As Osama bin Laden puts it: 'In this final phase of the ongoing struggle, the world of the infidels was divided between two superpowers -- the United States and the Soviet Union. Now we have defeated and destroyed the more difficult and the more dangerous of the two. Dealing with the pampered and effeminate Americans will be easy.' And then followed what has become the familiar description of the Americans and the usual litany and recitation of American defeats and retreats: Vietnam, Beirut, Somalia, one after another. The general theme was: They can't take it. Hit them and they'll run. All you have to do is hit harder. This seemed to receive final confirmation during the 1990s when one attack after another on embassies, warships, and barracks brought no response beyond angry words and expensive missiles misdirected to remote and uninhabited places, and in some places -- as in Beirut and Somalia -- prompt retreats."What happened on 9/11 was seen by its perpetrators and sponsors as the culmination of the previous phase and the inauguration of the next phase -- taking the war into the enemy camp to achieve final victory. The response to 9/11 came as a nasty surprise. They were expecting more of the same -- bleating and apologies -- instead of which they got a vigorous reaction, first in Afghanistan and then in Iraq. And as they used to say in Moscow: It is no accident, comrades, that there has been no successful attack in the United States since then. But if one follows the discourse, one can see that the debate in this country since then has caused many of the perpetrators and sponsors to return to their previous diagnosis. Because remember, they have no experience, and therefore no understanding, of the free debate of an open society. What we see as free debate, they see as weakness, fear and division. Thus they prepare for the final victory, the final triumph and the final Jihad. [. . .] "[O]n their side, they are firm and convinced and resolute. Whereas on our side, we are weak and undecided and irresolute. And in such a combat, it is not difficult to see which side will prevail. "I think that the effort is difficult and the outcome uncertain, but I think the effort must be made. Either we bring them freedom, or they destroy us." -- Excerpts from "Freedom and Justice in Islam," by Bernard Lewis, Imprimis, the National Speech Digest of Hillsdale College, September 2006, pages 6-7. Subscription free upon request. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. Imprimis Archive. Hillsdale College Website.
"Throughout the nation, more local governing bodies are no longer content with taxing and regulating the tangible. They are now stretching their tentacles to reach intangibles like viewsheds. They not only tax you for what others see (or don't see) on your land, but are also forbidding landowners from building on their property if a structure might disrupt the viewing enjoyment of others."New Hampshire residents are up in arms these days because those who once considered themselves fortunate to own property with a spectacular view are finding themselves penalized with a 'view tax.' Of course, the state government denies the term, preferring to call it a 'view factor,' but a rose by any other name still means the property owner must pay for the privilege of his desirable location. [. . .] "When Mr. [John] Chandler's property was reassessed by Avitar Associates of New England, the assessors hired by the state, his tax burden doubled. Why? Because he can see the White Mountains of Vermont from his property. "Well, he could if he were able to see, that is. Mr. Chandler is legally blind. [. . .] "No story about infringement of property rights would be complete without an example from the left Coast. The Pacific Legal Foundation is appealing the decision of a San Luis Obispo judge, Roger Pigret, who sided with the California Coastal Commission (CCC) in a case involving a landowner's plan to build his home on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. [. . .] "In 2000, San Luis Obispo county officials granted Mr. [David] Schneider a permit to build a single-family home and a barn on his forty acres, but the CCC got wind of Schneider's plans. They immediately appealed his case (to itself) and rejected the permit because it violated the revised CCC policy prohibiting buildings from being visible from the water. "He was told instead, to reduce the size of his house and move the building site to the back of the property against a cliff, even though a geologic report stated the location was unsafe because boulders could dislodge and come crashing down onto the house. "Schneider sued, but Judge Roger Pigret ruled the Commission's authority under the Coastal Act extends to 'offshore views'." -- Excerpts from "Land with a View," Standing Ground, Spring 2006. Address: American Land Foundation, PO Box 1033, Taylor, Texas 76574.
"In a particularly chilling essay, Prof. [Frank] Ellis [author of the book Marxism, Multiculturalism, and Free Speech] describes the systematic way Europeans have gone about fighting 'racism:' Unlike Americans who claim to support free speech but make it impossible, Europeans have frankly outlawed it."From the outset, The European Union's International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights specified that free speech had to be curbed to 'respect the rights or reputations of others,' and protect 'public health and morals.' Something called a Proposal for a Council Framework Decision on Combating Racism and Xenophobia, which become effective on March 26, 2002, takes it for granted that 'racism and xenophobia' are so frightful they fall automatically into the category of speech that can be criminalized. They are defined as follows: 'the belief in race, colour, descent, religion or belief, national or ethnic origin as a factor determining aversion to individuals or groups.' Whatever that definition actually means, as Prof. Ellis points out, the European Union has forbidden a belief. Actions based on this forbidden belief are called 'propaganda' offenses. 'Propaganda offenses,' as Prof. Ellis points out, are exactly the sort of purely political crimes Stalinists and Maoists invented to silence their enemies. Moreover, the 'framework decision' covers all media: 'The [European] Commission's approach on this issue is to ensure that racist and xenophobic content on the Internet is criminalized in all Member States.' "Another reason the EU must criminalize speech is that it has embraced another communist goal that cannot withstand scrutiny: equal outcomes. For the reds, it was equality of classes, now it is equality of races. 'We are, it seems, slow to learn,' notes Prof. Ellis. [. . .] "Whoever tries to build a society of lies must suppress, distort, censor and ultimately criminalize the truth." -- Excerpts from "In the Gulag of the Mind," a review of Professor Frank Ellis book: Marxism, Multiculturalism, and Free Speech, by Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, September 2006, pages 13-14. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website.
"One of the most common themes in the major media about global warming is that there exists a vast 'consensus' among scientists that man-made global warming is a fact. When any mention is made of scientists who disagree with this 'consensus,' they are typically portrayed as 'skeptics' who fall outside the scientific mainstream and are in the pocket of big energy companies. But no such consensus exists. In fact, Drs. Arthur Robinson and S. Fred Singer have spearheaded a petition drive that has obtained the signatures of about 17,000 scientists who oppose the Kyoto treaty. (More information.) And as to the issue of science and prostitution, it is fairly easy to prove who is really selling themselves. It is the global warming 'scientists' who are receiving the big payoffs -- from Big Government, Big Business, Big Media, Big Foundations, and the Big Green environmental organizations."-- Excerpts from "Sound Science & Common Sense," by Ed Hiserodt, The New American, September 4, 2006, page 24. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"The most censored speech in America today is not flag burning, pornography, or the press. The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. A Chinese scholar once observed, 'In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin.' [. . .]"The Piltdown Man was a lie taught to schoolchildren for decades, even featured in the Scopes trial textbook. Less than seven years ago a dinosaur-bird fossil hoax was presented as true on the glossy pages of National Geographic. "If Darwinians want to teach that whales, which are mammals, evolved from black bears swimming with their mouths open, as Darwin proposed, we should surely be entitled to criticize that. Yet school libraries have refused to accept books critical of evolution, even when written by college professors. [. . .] "Darwinians know they cannot persuade skeptical adults, so they try to capture impressionable schoolchildren. At our expense and against our wishes, children are taught that the world exists only for what is useful, not by design. [. . .] "There is a strong correlation between belief in evolution and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights. For the most part, the schools in the blue Kerry states are strongly pro-evolution, while the red Bush states allow debate and dissent. "It should surprise no one that the United States, land of the free and home of the brave, has the lowest percentage of evolution believers in the world. The highest percentage lived in Communist East Germany. "The Tom Daschle Senate quietly slipped a provision into the No Child Left Behind Act that requires, by the 2007-2008 school year, science testing by grade 5. Unless changed, that language will give the censors the authority to force ten-year-olds to believe and defend evolution. [. . .] "[John] Dewey espoused the notion that the real goal of education is to socialize students to conform to society's goals, not educate them to reach their individual potential. A prominent signer of the Humanist Manifesto in 1933, Dewey taught that belief in objective truth and authoritative notions of good and evil are harmful to students. "Dewey's legacy can be seen in the fads called Values Clarification that swept the public schools in the 1970s and 1980s, and Outcome-Based Education that dominated the schools in the 1990s, and in the courses in Critical Thinking, which some people call 'How to criticize your parents and what they believe in.'" -- Excerpts from "The Most Censored Speech in America," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, August 2006, pages 3-4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. .
"The NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement] Super Highway is a venture unlike any previous highway construction project. It is actually a daisy chain of dozens of corridors and coordinated projects that are expected to stretch out for several decades, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and end up radically reconfiguring not only the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well."In Texas, the NAFTA Super Highway is being sold as the Trans Texas Corridor. In simplest terms, the TTC is a superhighway system including toll ways for passenger vehicles and trucks; lanes for commercial and freight truck; tracks for commuter rail and high-speed freight rail; depots for all rail lines; pipelines for oil, water, and natural gas; and electrical towers and cabling for communication and telephone lines. One of the proposed corridor routes, TTC-35, is parallel to the present Interstate Highway 35 (1-35), slightly to the east, running north from Mexico to Canada. Its present scope is 4,000 miles long, 1,200 feet wide, with an estimated cost of $183 billion of taxpayer funds. [. . .] "One of the most striking features of the proposed Super Highway is the plan to do away with our borders, as evidenced by the joint U.S.-Mexico Customs facility already under construction in Kansas City, Missouri. [. . .] "[T]he North American Free Trade Agreement [. . .], which was sold to the American public as a simple trade agreement, was actually far more than that, setting in motion a process for the gradual social, economic, and political 'integration,' or merger, of the three NAFTA countries -- Canada, the United States, and Mexico -- into a North American Union. [. . .] "Although the Super Highway corridors are being sold locally as projects to ease congestion and facilitate U.S. economic competitiveness, their main purpose, very clearly, is to create an arterial network for speeding the delivery of manufactured products into the United States through Canada and Mexico." -- Excerpts from "Coming Through! The NAFTA Super Highway," by Kelly Taylor, The New American, August 7, 2006, pages 12-16. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website.
"It is already too late for South Africa, but not for America if enough people strengthen their spine and take on the race terrorists, the armies of the 'politically correct' and, most dangerous of all, the craven politicians who believe 'compassionate conservatism' will buy them a few more votes, a few more days of peace."White South Africans, you should remember, have been in that part of Africa for the same 'amount of time whites have inhabited North America; yet ultimately South Africans voted for their own suicide. We are not so very different from you. "We lost our country through skillful propaganda, pressure from abroad (not least from the U.S.A.), unrelenting charges of 'oppression' and 'racism,' and the shrewd assessment by African tyrants that the white man has many Achilles' heels, the most significant of which are his compassion, his belief in the 'equality of man,' and his 'love your neighbor' philosophy -- none of which are part of the Third World's history. "The mainline churches played a big role in the demise of Western influence throughout Africa, too; especially in South Africa. Today's tyrants were yesterday's mission-school proteges. Many dictators in Africa were men of the cloth. They knew their clerical collars would deflect criticism and obfuscate their real aims, which had nothing whatever to do with the 'brotherhood of man.' "Other tyrants, like the infamous Idi Amin, were trained and schooled by the whites themselves, at Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard. After receiving the best from the West, they unleashed a resentful bloodlust against their benefactors. "From what I have seen and read thus far, I fear Americans will capitulate just as we did. Americans are, generally, a soft lot. They don't want to quarrel or obstruct the claims of those who believe they were wronged. They like peace and quiet, and they want to compromise and be nice." -- Excerpts from "A Warning for America from South Africa," by Gemma Meyer (the pseudonym of a South African journalist who still resides in South Africa), The Nationalist Times, August 2006, page 16. Address: PO Box 426, Allison Park, Pennsylvania 15101. Phone: 724-443-7300. Fax: 724-443-4240. E-mail. Website.
"The NEA [National Education Association] is determined to get control of children at the earliest possible age. One resolution calls for public school programs for children 'from birth through age eight,' another calls for pre-kindergarten for 'all three- and four-year-old children,' and still another demands 'mandatory kindergarten with compulsory attendance.' "The anti-parent animus of the NEA is apparent in its insistence that the public schools be in the driver's seat about the teaching of sex. Claiming that every child has the right to 'freely available information and knowledge about sexuality,' the NEA demands the right to teach children about diversity of sexual orientation and gender identification, incest, and homophobia. "The NEA is a big supporter of every sort of globalism and international commitment. NEA resolutions endorse global education, multicultural education, the United Nations, the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the globalist version of environmental education, and opposition to English as our official language. "Other NEA resolutions that have nothing to do with education include calling for national health care and statehood for the District of Columbia. To nobody's surprise, the NEA opposes any requirement that a school schedule a moment of silence." -- Excerpts from "Anti-Parent Policies in Public Schools -- The NEA Moves Farther Left," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, August 2006, pages 1-2. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.
"In the early years of the 21st century, elites in three nations -- the United States, Canada, and Mexico -- are busy creating a new political configuration, called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). It would broaden and deepen the relationship created in 1994 among the three nations through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in dramatic ways. [. . .]"[I]t would require that U.S. citizens effectively surrender their citizenship in the independent Constitutional Republic founded in 1787. Unlike the USA, which was an organic outgrowth of a political system rooted in AngloSaxon laws, customs, traditions, and language, the political entity created through the SPP -- in effect, the United States of North America (USNA) -- would be a forced three-way marriage of wildly incompatible cultures and political systems. [. . .] "This past March. President Bush met in Cancun, Mexico, with Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canada's newly-elected Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to discuss the year-old SPP, which was formally inaugurated a year ago. in a similar trinational summit in Waco. Texas. [. . .] "The SPP is the product of the same minds that devised NAFTA, a sister-agreement and predecessor of the SPP. The basic treaty of that supposed free-trade accord is laid out in thousands of pages of dense regulations, creating scores of unaccountable bureaucratic bodies, including several trade tribunals, whose rulings are binding on the citizens of the three NAFTA nations. "Law professor, Peter Spiro, of Hofstra University, said that the implementation of the NAFTA tribunals was 'a fundamental reorientation of our Constitutional system. You have an international tribunal essentially reviewing American court judgments.' "And, elected officials in the United States have begun giving precedence to NAFTA rules, over the interests of Americans. [. . .] "Following his election in 2000, Mexican President, Vicente Fox, told an audience in California that his government would 'use all our persuasion, and all our talent, to bring together the U.S., Canadian, and Mexican governments so that in five or ten years, the border is totally open to the free movement of workers.' [. . .] "George W. Bush has long been a proponent of amalgamating the United States with Mexico, and is an unabashed proponent of regional integration as well." -- Excerpts from "The United States of North America," by Steven Yates, eco-logic Powerhouse, July 2006, pages 10-13. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, 1200 North White Sands Boulevard, Suite 110, Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310. Phone: 731-986-0099. Fax: 505-434-8992. E-mail. Website.
"Governments which deny individual commercial action among free individuals; deny the ability to own and control private property; and tax the self-earned wealth from the industrious are the root of poverty and misery and consequently, damaged environment."We used to call such policies communism. Today we have a much gentler sounding name -- Sustainable Development, now the official policy of the United States, all 50 states and nearly every city and small town in the nation. Sustainable Development is, of course, a top-down control of every aspect of our lives, from land use to community development to job availability to transportation to the foods we eat to our children's education system. [. . .] "Sustainable Development is restructuring our lives, and is targeting our children through an educational regime that seeks to develop collective attitudes, values and beliefs. Sustainable Development documents expressly call for the elimination of private property and freedom that private property supports. It supplants long-standing State laws, and causes irreparable harm to our economy and our society. [. . .] "The looming battle of ideas should be recognized as a classic -- and perhaps ultimate -- battle between Liberty and Tyranny. The social, economic, and political transformations Sustainable Development requires will mean the suppression of unalienable rights for all people." -- Excerpts from "Globally-Acceptable Truths in the Land of Eden," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, August 2006, page 4, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website.
"We have a socialist-communist system of distributing medical care. Instead of letting people hire their own physicians and pay them, no one pays his or her own medical bills. Instead, there's a third party payment system. It is a communist system and it has a communist result. Despite this, we've had numerous miracles in medical science. From the discovery of penicillin, to new surgical techniques, to MRIs and CAT scans, the last 30 or 40 years have been a period of miraculous change in medical science. On the other hand, we've seen costs skyrocket. Nobody is happy: physicians don't like it, patients don't like it. Why? Because none of them are responsible for themselves. You no longer have a situation in which a patient chooses a physician, receives a service, gets charged, and pays for it. There is no direct relation between the patient and the physician. The physician is an employee of an insurance company or an employee of the government. Today, a third party pays the bills. As a result, no one who visits the doctor asks what the charge is going to be -- somebody else is going to take care of that. The end result is third party payment and, worst of all, third party treatment."-- Excerpts from ""Free to Choose: A Conservation with Milton Friedman," Imprimis, the National Speech Digest of Hillsdale College, July 2006, page 4. Subscription free upon request. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. Imprimis Archive. Hillsdale College Website.".
"The Senate [immigration] bill would make 25% of our population foreign born within 20 years (most of them high school dropouts), and the United States as we know it would no longer exist. It is impossible in so short a time to assimilate 66 million people whose native culture does not respect the Rule of Law, self-government, private property, or the sanctity of contracts, and where they are accustomed to an economy based on bribery and controlled by corrupt police and a small, rich ruling class that keeps most of the people in dire poverty. [. . .]"After the U.S. Senate passed the Kennedy-McCain (a.k.a. Hagel-Martinez) immigration bill in May, the White House website advertised, in both English and Spanish, Bush's congratulations (applaudo) for passing what he called bipartisan (bipartidista) and comprehensive (integral) immigration reform. In fact, this may be the worst and the most expensive bill ever passed by the Senate. It is an embarrassment to the few Republicans who voted for it. "The Senate bill grants amnesty (a.k.a. legalization or earned citizenship) to the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens currently living in the United States, who will then become recipients of our generous entitlements. The cost to the taxpayers of this monumental expansion of the welfare state will be at least $50 billion a year. [. . .] "The bill gives the so-called temporary guest workers preferential rights that American citizens do not have. The temporaries can't be fired from their jobs except for cause, they must be paid the prevailing wage, and they can't be arrested for other civil offenses if they are stopped for traffic violations. "The bill assures the illegals they can have the preference of in-state college tuition (something that is denied to U.S. citizens in 49 [. . .] states), plus certain types of college financial assistance. As minorities, they may even get affirmative action preferences in jobs, government contracts, and college admissions. [. . .] "We currently have 37,000 troops guarding the 151-mile border between North and South Korea, but we have fewer than 12,000 agents to monitor 2,000 miles of our southern border. [. . .] "The illegal alien who drove 100 miles an hour on Interstate 485 on the wrong side of the highway, killing a University of North Carolina coed in November 2005, had been returned to Mexico 17 times. [. . .] "Bush was correct when he said this is the 'time of decision.' Republicans who want to be elected this November should pass the Sensenbrenner House border-security-only bill (H.R. 4437) without any Bush-Kennerly-McCain plans to import more foreigners to take jobs from Americans." -- Excerpts from "Guest Workers Aren't Cheap; They're Expensive," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, July 2006, pages 1, 2, 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website.
"'An Inconvenient Truth' may be disguised as a documentary, but in fact it is a craftily fabricated infomercial, part of a massive media campaign now underway at Time, Vanity Fair, HBO, CBS' '60 Minutes' and hundreds of other establishment media outlets. Critics suggest this propaganda blitz is designed to panic the public so they buy into drastic political measures and sky-high taxes to fight global warming, described by Gore as potentially 'the worst catastrophe in the history of human civilization.' [. . .]"But is the main message of Gore's movie accurate? In a word, no. If Gore were a company marketing global warming as a product, the Federal Trade Commission would be justified in shutting down 'An Inconvenient Truth' as false and deceptive advertising. "For example, Gore implies that the Aral Sea in Central Asia has been drying up as a consequence of global warming. In fact, it has been shrinking because the former Soviet Union diverted rivers that once kept it full. "Similarly, what one movie reviewer called the film's most memorable scene shows 1970, 2000 and 2005 photographs of an African mountain's snowcap disappearing as Gore's voice of doom predicts that 'within the decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro.' But satellite measurements show the 19,OOO-foot peak of this ancient volcano just south of the Equator to be colder today than it was in 1970. [. . .] [J]ournals showed that global warming is not to blame for the waning snow and ice on Mt. Kilimanjaro, but Gore's juxtaposition of words and images cunningly tricks viewers into believing it is. [. . .] "Nearly all of the other direct or implied claims Gore makes in 'An Inconvenient Truth' turn out to be like his statements about the Aral Sea and Mt. Kilimanjaro -- a misleading half-truth or apparently deliberate distortions and deceptions. [. . .] "In 1997 Gore jetted to Japan to sign the international agreement now known as the Kyoto Protocol, which he helped negotiate. He returned home expecting to be greeted as an environmental hero. "Instead, the U.S. Senate, in a bipartisan 95-0 vote, adopted a resolution refusing to consider the Protocol because it imposed energy use cutbacks on the United States while exempting Communist China, India, Brazil and other large nations from any similar restrictions. [. . .] The Clinton-Gore administration never submitted it to the Senate for ratification." -- Excerpts from "Legitimate Threat or Hot Air?" by Lowell Ponte and Marc Morano, NewsMax.com (the magazine), July 2006, pages 16-18. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website.
"The UAE [United Arab Emirates] is home to a disturbing human trafficking trend, the selling of young boys into the UAE's lucrative camel-racing industry to be unpaid jockeys. In other words: slavery."Slavery is supposed to be a distant memory, but in truth, it's alive and well -- and the use of these unpaid camel jockeys is just one example of it. The State Department's Trafficking in Persons Office estimates that up to 800,000 people are annually trafficked across international borders, human beings bought and sold for $10 billion every year. Approximately 80% of them are women, and as many as half of them are children. Human trafficking is one of the most profitable businesses for international organized crime, following only drugs and weapons, and is one of the fastest-growing criminal activities in the world. "Approximately 18,000 women and children from around the world are brought into this country each year, some smuggled illegally, others lured with visas and the promise of jobs and then coerced into slavery upon arrival. And this does not include the number of persons trafficked from within the United States. The city of Toledo, Ohio, was recently identified as a center of teenage prostitution and sex slavery. Ohio newspapers were full of stories of the girls trapped in this ring, girls as young as 12 or 13, raped, beaten, abused, their bodies sold to enrich their captors. Prosecutors indicted 31 men and women in the Toledo area on charges of taking minors across state lines as sex slaves." -- Excerpts from "Combating Modern-Day Slavery," by Rep. Deborah Pryce, Human Events, May 8, 2006, page 20. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Website..
"White supremacy was finally defeated in the mid-1960s, not just in America, but all around the world. Those movements flew under the flag of many different ideologies. Some were communistic, some were Gandhi pacifism, some were nationalistic, but all of them were a rebellion against the idea that whiteness constituted a moral authority in and of itself. And those revolutions, they were all victorious. [. . .]"The price that Americans and Europeans paid, the price the Western world has paid for that is to be forevermore stigmatized with the sense of the past, the racism, the imperialism, the colonialism of the past. Whites began to live under the cloud of suspicion that they really were, in their heart and soul, racist, imperialist, sexist and so on. So they had to prove the negative that they weren't this way. [. . .] White guilt is not a guilt of conscience. It's not a guilt of feeling. It is about fighting off a stigma that one is evil, that one is racist in some way, so that one acts guiltily even when one doesn't feel guilty. [. . .] "White guilt is the same thing as black power. It gave us the first power we ever felt in American society. As blacks, before we had nothing, all of a sudden, we had white guilt. We could say, 'Unless you disassociate from racism by giving us Great Society programs, welfare, affirmative action and diversity, you're going to be stigmatized as racist and you will lose your moral authority and legitimacy.'" -- Excerpts from "The Harm in 'White Guilt': Book Breaks Down Racial Issues," by Shelley Widhalm (from an interview with Shelby Steele, author of The Content of Our Character), The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 29 - June 4, 2006, page 15. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website.  Must-Read items for March-May 1999. June-August 1999. September-December 1999. Must-Read items for January-April 2000. May-August 2000. September-December 2000. Must-Read items for January-June 2001. July-December 2001. Must-Read items for January-June 2002. July-December 2002. Must-Read items for January-June 2003. July-December 2003. Must-Read items for January-June 2004. July-December 2004. Must-Read items for January-June 2005. July-December 2005. Must-Read items for January-June 2006.The way back home. |
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