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THE DAY OUR CONSTITUTION WAS STOLEN
Post Date: 2011-02-07 20:04:45 by A K A Stone
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In this column, several references have been made to the Emergency Banking and Relief Act of 1933. Those who read this column now know that Republicans in both California and Texas have taken steps to have this law repealed. Dr. Eugene Schroder of the American Agricultural Movement has alleged that this may be considered to be the genesis of the loss of our Constitutional rights. Could it be there is one law responsible for all subsequent laws that trample our Constitutional rights? What was it about this law that many believe declared the American people to be enemies of the government? President Herbert Hoover (in the final days of his term) had refused to implement this law, which was ...
The New Deal and Roosevelt’s Seizure of Gold: A Legacy of Theft and Inflation, Part 1 [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-02-07 10:51:20 by A K A Stone
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In a recent discussion on the economy with a faculty colleague, I reminded her of some of the absurdities of New Deal economic policies (many of which have been laid out in previous issues of Freedom Daily and elsewhere). She reminded me that Franklin D. Roosevelt is a “hero” to her and other Democrats, which, translated, means that the New Deal cannot be criticized in any form.
Indeed, in May the New York Times op-ed page paid homage to Roosevelt. Ted Widmer wrote that a book by Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, who he says “has nurtured a schoolboy crush on F.D.R.,” reflects “on the way that Roosevelt reinvented the presidency during his first hundred days in office, through bold policy ...
Homeboys told to pull up their pants, don't 'diss Black History Month
Post Date: 2011-02-04 16:24:56 by Happy Quanzaa
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Long Beach Tells Teens To Pick Up Saggy PantsCall for 'respect' during Black History Month LONG BEACH (CBS) — City leaders want young people in Long Beach to do two things this February: pick ‘em up and keep ‘em up. Bishop William Ervin along with Carson City Councilman Mike Gipson are calling on black children and teens to “pull up their pants on their waist” as a sign of respect during Black History Month. KNX 107082;s Ron Kilgore reports their message to young men who wear their pants down around their knees is simple: “You can have the swag without the sag”. Community leaders say the plan is not just for cultural purposes, but may have ...
Morgan Freeman on Black History Month
Post Date: 2011-02-03 08:41:42 by Happy Quanzaa
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Morgan Freeman on Black History Month
Andrew Klavan: The History of Western Culture in 2 1/2 Minutes
Post Date: 2011-01-14 11:31:01 by Happy Quanzaa
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Pearl Harbor Attacked!
Post Date: 2010-12-07 11:25:38 by sneakypete
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Chalmers Johnson: R.I.P.
Post Date: 2010-11-21 17:58:14 by jwpegler
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Last night, antiwar historian Chalmers Johnson died after an extended illness. A long-time Cold Warrior, he applauded the collapse of the Soviet Union: "I was a cold warrior. There's no doubt about that. I believed the Soviet Union was a genuine menace. I still think so." But at the same time he experienced a political awakening after the collapse of the Soviet Union, noting that instead of demobilizing its armed forces, the US accelerated its reliance on military solutions to problems both economic and political. The result of this militarism (as distinct from actual domestic defense) is more terrorism against the US and its allies, the loss of core democratic values at ...
Genocide Wiped Out Native American Population
Post Date: 2010-09-21 04:28:33 by Hondo68
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The unearthed bones and artifacts indicate that when the violence took place, men, women and children were tortured, disemboweled, killed and often hacked to bits. THE GIST A massive deposit of mutilated and processed human remains has been found in the American Southwest. The remains and other artifacts at the site, Sacred Ridge in Colorado, indicate ethnic cleansing took place there in the early ninth century. The genocide likely occurred due to conflict between different Anasazi Ancestral Puebloan ethnic groups. Crushed leg bones, battered skulls and other mutilated human remains are likely all that's left of a Native American population destroyed by genocide that took place circa ...
Israel: Choosing To Hide Its Dark Past
Post Date: 2010-08-30 19:22:38 by Brian S
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During the war of 1948, Syrian Interior Minister Sabri Al Asali appeared before Parliament in a pre-emptive move, revealing minutes of secret talks between Syrian nationalists and Zionist leaders back in 1936. The Syrian negotiators, who were all in senior posts by 1948, feared that the Israelis would unilaterally reveal details of these talks in order to embarrass Syria's top leadership during the Palestine War. With nothing to hide they came out clean on their own. Last week, the exact opposite happened in Israel when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed off prolonging confidentiality of national archives related to events before, during, and after the war of 1948. Anything ...
When Shuls Were Banned in America
Post Date: 2010-08-13 20:25:20 by Brian S
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When New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood on Governors Island, in sight of the Statue of Liberty, and forcefully defended the right of Muslims to build a community center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, he expressly made a point of distancing himself from an earlier leader of the city: Peter Stuyvesant, who understood the relationship between religion and state altogether differently than Bloomberg does. As governor of what was then called New Amsterdam, from 1647-1664, Stuyvesant worked to enforce Calvinist orthodoxy. He objected to public worship for Lutherans, fought Catholicism and threatened those who harbored Quakers with fines and imprisonment. One might easily imagine how ...
Godfrey de Bouillon
Post Date: 2010-08-08 16:47:57 by A K A Stone
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Godfrey de Bouillon (b.1058-d.1100), the French Duke of Lower Lorraine, was among the most important leaders of the First Crusade. Although Godfrey had fought on the side of Henry IV against Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy, he later set out in 1096 for the Holy Land with other French knights, including his brother Baldwin, in response to Pope Urban II’s calling of the First Crusade. In doing so, Godfrey reportedly mortgaged his Duchy to pay for the tens of thousands of knights and foot soldiers he brought with him, which were primarily comprised of Germans, Flemings, and Walloons. Godfrey was the first of the crusade leaders to reach the city of Constantinople and ...
‘Journalism’s’ Stealth Attack On Americans And The Truth.
Post Date: 2010-07-22 08:45:09 by Skip MacLure
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It’s a sad state of affairs, but the facts are undeniable… we no longer have a ‘Fourth Estate’ in this country… instead it has morphed into a subversive, secretive Fifth Column. The term ‘Fourth Estate’ is used to refer to the press, a term attributed to Edmund Burke, an 18th century Irish statesman. Journalism has generally had a favorable reputation in this country until recently, deservedly or not. Actually, a close look at the history of journalism in this country will reveal a picture of contentious partisanship and political bias. The print media always had huge impact on public opinion in this country, starting with colonial ‘handbills’ ...
The New Barbary Coast.
Post Date: 2010-07-14 06:43:23 by Skip MacLure
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Oakland, California was a place of refuge for tens of thousands of badly frightened San Francisco residents, in the days just following the 1906 earthquake. Arriving in just about anything that would float in those pre-bridge days, they were welcomed as best the people of Oakland could manage. Many decided to stay and build homes there. For years, Oakland existed as a bucolic community in the shadow of her garishly dramatic neighbor across the bay. The San Francisco of the 1850s was a wild and dangerous place for the unlucky or unwary. The influx of gold seekers had caused an explosion in the population of what had been a sleepy Spanish village. From 1847 to 1870, the population of San ...
States’ Rights, Then And Now.
Post Date: 2010-07-13 09:58:59 by Skip MacLure
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Yesterday, my article purposely skirted the issue of states’ rights. John Brown would have been executed, whether he assaulted the Springfield Armory or not. In his missionary zeal for his abolitionist cause, he murdered five pro-slavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas on May 26, 1856. The ‘States’ Rights’ issue was never a simple one, and the America of the 1850s was being torn apart by the slavery issue. The pro-slavery south was determined that the abolitionist north not bring ‘free states’ into the union. That’s a vast oversimplification but, in essence, the antebellum south was dependent on slave labor to maintain its agrarian economy which ...
The Battle Hymn Of The Republic.
Post Date: 2010-07-12 14:06:25 by Skip MacLure
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First published as an abolitionist (anti-slavery) hymn in The Atlantic Monthly in February of 1862. Lyrics written by Julia Ward Howe in November 1861. The tune was adapted from a popular Union marching song which went in part, “We will hang John Brown’s body from a sour apple tree”. John Brown was an ardent abolitionist who advocated a slave rebellion in the south. Brown, along with eighteen others, attacked and captured the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. The arsenal was held by Brown for two days, before being recaptured by US Marines under the command of Captain Robert E. Lee, soon to command the Army of Northern Virginia for the Confederacy. Brown was ...
Ahmadinejad Questions 'Fairy Tale' Holocaust, Denies Being Anti-Semite
Post Date: 2010-07-10 20:12:36 by Brian S
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the historic dimensions of the Holocaust but rejected the label of an anti-Semite, the Fars news agency reported Friday. "The West made a claim - about the Holocaust - and urges all the people in the world to accept it or otherwise go to prison," Ahmadinejad told a group of Islamic scholars Thursday in Nigeria, where he attended a summit of the Developing Eight, a group of countries with large Muslim populations. "The West allows everybody to question prophets and even God but not to pose a simple question and open the black box of a historic event," he charged. Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking ...
Presidential Scholars: Bush Is The Worst President Of The Modern Era, Bottom Five Of All Time [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-07-01 12:49:51 by Brian S
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Since 1982, the Siena Research Institute has polled presidential scholars on whom they view to be best and worst presidents in American history, based on a variety of issues from “integrity” to economic stewardship. This year’s poll of 238 scholars found that President Franklin Roosevelt was once again ranked on top, joined by Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, and Teddy Roosevelt to complete the top five. However, President George W. Bush did not fare well since the last poll was conducted in 2002. He dropped 16 places to 39th, making him the worst president since Warren Harding died in office in 1923, and one of the bottom five of all time, according to the experts: ...
FDR Rated Best President In Survey Of 238 Scholars
Post Date: 2010-07-01 11:57:53 by Brian S
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(07-01) 06:54 PDT Loudonville, N.Y. (AP) -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt is being ranked the top president in U.S. history by 238 scholars surveyed by Siena College. Roosevelt has topped each of the five presidential scholar surveys conducted by the Albany, N.Y.-area college since 1982. Theodore Roosevelt came in at No. 2 in the survey released Thursday, followed by Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Scholars ranked the 43 presidents on attributes such as integrity, intelligence, leadership and communication, as well as their accomplishments. Lincoln's beleaguered successor, Andrew Johnson, was rated the worst president.
US And 14 Other European Countries Gave Saddam Chemical Arms [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-30 12:24:54 by Brian S
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Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Official documents point the finger at the US and 14 other European countries for equipping former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons, says a top Iranian official. Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Saeid Jalili said those weapons were used by the former Baghdad regime, including in the 1987 gas attack on the northwestern Iranian city of Sardasht and in another chemical strike on the northern Iraqi city of Halabcha in 1988. He said as long as the prime suspects in those attacks as well as in the crimes committed in Vietnam are permanent members of the UN Security Council, there is a possibility that such crimes may ...
New Documents Surface On Hitler's Jail Time
Post Date: 2010-06-23 12:18:45 by Brian S
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BERLIN (AP) -- Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment while jailed in 1924, being allowed hundreds of visitors - sometimes unsupervised - including some 30 to 40 to celebrate his 35th birthday, according to a treasure trove of documents that have surfaced from the prison near Munich where he was held. The 500 documents from the Landsberg prison were recently found by a Nuremberg man among the possessions of his late father, who had purchased them at a flea market in the 1970s, according to Werner Behringer, whose auction house in the Bavarian city of Fuerth will offer them for sale next month. Behringer said they were packed among a bundle of books on World War I that the man had ...
Presidential addresses from Oval Office since 1981
Post Date: 2010-06-16 01:24:05 by Brian S
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Presidential addresses from the Oval Office since 1981: --- BARACK OBAMA -Gulf of Mexico oil spill, June 15, 2010 GEORGE W. BUSH: -War on terror in Iraq, Sept. 13, 2007 -War on terror, Sept. 11, 2006 -Immigration reform, May 15, 2006 -Iraq and the war on terror, Dec. 18, 2005 -Beginning of combat operations in Iraq, March 19, 2003 -Terrorist attacks, Sept. 11, 2001 BILL CLINTON -Airstrikes against Serbian targets in Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), March 24, 1999 -U.S. military strike on Iraq, Dec. 16, 1998 -U.S. military strike on terrorist sites in Afghanistan and Sudan, Aug. 20, 1998 -Peace agreement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Nov. 27, 1995 -Balanced budget plan, June 13, ...
Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Major General Smedley Butler - WAR IS A RACKET!
Post Date: 2010-05-29 09:44:44 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler" target="_blank">upload.wikimedia.org/wiki...480px-SmedleyButler.jpeg" usemap="#Map2" border="0" width="241" height="331">www.lulu.com/content/8616011" target="_blank">Written by Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor RecipientMajor General Smedley D. ButlerUSMC, RetiredCHAPTER ONE WAR IS A RACKETWAR is a racket. It always has been.It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.A racket is best described, I ...
Remembering Wars and Warriors
Post Date: 2010-05-29 09:31:01 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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Remembering Wars and WarriorsPat BuchananSaturday, May 29, 2010 Since America became a nation, four of her greatest generals have served two terms as president: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses Grant and Dwight David Eisenhower. Not one of these generals led America into a new war. Washington was heroic in keeping the young republic out of the wars that erupted in Europe after the French Revolution, as were his successors John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Jackson, arguably America's greatest soldier -- who won the Battle of New Orleans, which preserved the Union, and virtually annexed Florida -- resisted until his final days in office recognizing the Republic of Texas, ...
May 26, 1924: Coolidge signs stringent immigration law AMERICA MUST REMAIN AMERICAN
Post Date: 2010-05-26 09:47:44 by A K A Stone
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On this day in 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signs into law the Comprehensive Immigration Act, the most stringent immigration policy up to that time in the nation's history.
The new law reflected the desire of Americans to isolate themselves from the world after fighting the terrible First World War in Europe, which exacerbated growing fears of the spread of communist ideas. It also reflected the pervasiveness of racial discrimination in American society at the time. Many Americans saw the enormous influx of largely unskilled, uneducated immigrants during the early 1900s as causing unfair competition for jobs and land. Under the new law, immigration remained open to those with a ...
Negro Prison Songs
Post Date: 2010-05-16 00:46:04 by A K A Stone
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Recorded over 60 years ago at Parchman Farm "these songs belong to the musical tradition which Africans brought to the New World, but they are also as American as the Mississippi River." - Alan Lomax
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