Posted on 09/04/2009 8:35:59 PM PDT by kristinn
Edited on 09/04/2009 10:12:27 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Van Jones, Barack Obama's Green Jobs Czar, produced a record album entitled "WarTimes: Reports from the Opposition" a few years ago that was narrated by convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal and featured a clip of an interview Jones did where he slammed the United States and Israel and proclaimed his stand with a "global struggle" against the United States.
Jones used his Ella Baker Center for Human Rights to found Freedom Fighter Music, the label WarTimes appeared on. WarTimes is also the name of an anti-war-on-al-Qaeda propaganda newspaper Jones helped organize.
The album was unearthed by the website Verum Serum, which posted a YouTube video with highlights of the album.
About three minutes forty-five seconds in to the highlight video, there is a brief interview with Van Jones at an anti-Israel demonstration where Jones criticizes Israel and calls for Palestinian 'right of return' then unloads on the United States:
"We see violence against poor people and poor people of color within the U.S. border, at the U.S. border, and beyond the U.S. border and you see U.S. tax dollars funding all of it. And so we have this now global struggle against the U.S. led security apparatus and military agenda that impacts people here and impacts people around the world and I think that we need to see our problems as linked."
Mumia closes out the album by describing it as a "small tease of the truth about U.S. imperialism's war on the world."
The time frame of the album is hard to gauge, but Verum Serum writes that Freedom Fighter Music existed from around 2002-2003 to 2005-2006 and produced maybe two or three albums. The album appears to be from late 2002 or early 2003.
Jones mentioned the label in an interview with USA Today's USA Weekend magazine published February 9, 2003 that Verum Serum found:
[I understand you have] developed a record label, Freedom Fighter Music.
Jones: Yes, we've had one for a little more than a year. Our second CD is coming out this year.
Verum Serum gave a link to an MP3 file of the entire album at Indymedia.
What a scary post.
The... only positive assessment is that under this recession, younger WORKING people are hit harder than anybody in 30 or so years.. and will be more recognizant to
the human tragedy that Com/Socialism brings us.
No kidding! He is the gift that keeps on giving. This WH expects anyone to believe they vetted any CZAR? IMO Jones reflects Obama’s view of the US.
This time, 0bozo can’t get away with saying “he’s not the same man I knew.”
Van Jones hates America and was hired to promote his agendas.
WOW....you are on a roll today!
I agree....IMPEACH OBAMA!!!
What additional proof do the idiots in this country need that Obama is poison for this country. The way he wants to change this country is disastrous for Democrats, Republican, Blacks, White, anybody who has an inkling of respect for this country.
We need to constantly keep an eye on this hustler or we will live to regret it. Some of us already know the score, I hope the rest wake up in time. What a disaster!
Just another symptom of 0bama’s failed defacto regime.
The FBI used to keep an eye on the radical fringe groups of all cultural groups - I wonder how that has “CHANGED”?
My bet is hollywood, and rappers.
Our tax dollars at work.
And how many millions/billions of stimulus money does Van Jones have control over?....disgusting!!
MUST SEE PING!!
God Save Our Republic!!
An article that might dovetail with your assertion(s):
Good call!
And now that odinga has his hands on gazillions more of our tax dollars, what's next??? Calypso Louis as commander of the "civilian defense forces"?
Someone should stick a microphone in Colin Powell’s face and ask him about this crap!! How long will the rinos continue to back COMMUNISM for christ’s sake?!!
And people wonder why Plugs is acting like the prez. Maybe he knows what’s coming.
“What a scary post.”
If you knew what I know you would be terrified.
What happens over the next eight months will determine if the US remains what people here at FR would call free or if we lose our sovereignty to some truly bad people.
I’ve been saying it for a long time: We are in trouble.
Say these words: “There are communists trying to take over the United States of America.”
You don’t want to say them do you? Your gut tells you it can’t be true, or perhaps that I’m an alarmist, or paranoid.
This is the effect of psychological subversion. Why are current generations so slow to recognize, let alone respond, to the offenses of the hard-left when previous generations of Americans were very much aware of the threat?
How can you fight what you cannot see?
Communists are not stupid—they are clearly our most dangerous adversaries. But by the reaction of today’s well-conditioned American to blatant communist activity you would think they didn’t even exist. This is a grand achievement for them.
The ‘good crisis’ comes next.
If we fail to hault the ‘solution’ to this/these crisis we will lose our country, our prosperity, our property, our freedom, our children’s hope of freedom, and on, and on.
I’ve been studying the left for over twenty years and I was raised around Russian defectors.
Your inability to recognize it is why the KGB, for just one example, spent only 15% of their time and resources on spying and 85% of these on subversion.
They are very serious and fully engaged in war against us. We’re not even aware of their presence yet.
Imagine someone hacking away at you while you sleep. This is what is happening right now to the United States.
And people laughed at SP when she said 0bama palled around w/terrorists.
From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: VAN JONES
Born in 1968 in rural West Tennessee, Van Jones earned a B.A. degree from the University of Tennessee at Martin and then attended Yale Law School. During his years at Yale, Jones served as an intern with the San Francisco-based Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR), which views the United States as an irredeemably racist nation and "champions the legal rights of people of color, poor people, immigrants and refugees, with a special commitment to African-Americans."
Jones says that he first became politically radicalized in the aftermath of the deadly April 1992 Los Angeles riots which erupted shortly after four L.A. police officers who had beaten the infamous Rodney King were exonerated in court. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th," says Jones, who is black, "and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist."
Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, "I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."
After earning his Juris Doctorate from Yale in 1993, Jones relocated to San Francisco, where he helped establish Bay Area PoliceWatch, a hotline and lawyer-referral service that began as a project of LCCR. In 1996 he founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which, claiming that the American criminal-justice system is infested with racism, seeks to promote alternatives to incarceration. According to the Baker Center:
"Decades of disinvestment in our cities have led to despair and hopelessness. For poor communities and communities of color it's even worse, as excessive, racist policing and over-incarceration have left people even further behind."
By the late 1990s, Jones was a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist who viewed police officers as the arch-enemies of black people, and who loathed capitalism for allegedly exploiting nonwhite minorities worldwide. He became a leading member of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a now-defunct Bay Area Marxist-Maoist collective that was staffed by members of various local nonprofits, a number of whom had ties to the Ella Baker Center.
In the early 2000s, Jones and STORM were active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER, a front group for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party. STORM also had ties to the South African Communist Party and it revered Amilcar Cabral, the late Marxist revolutionary leader (of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands) who lauded Lenin as "the greatest champion of the national liberation of the peoples." (In 2006 Van Jones would name his own newborn son "Cabral" -- in Amilcar Cabral's honor.)
During his tenure with STORM, Jones collaborated on numerous projects (including antiwar demonstrations) with local activist Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, who served as a "mentor" for members of the Ella Baker Center. Martinez was a longtime Maoist who went on to join the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), a Communist Party USA splinter group, in the early 1990s. To this day, Martinez continues to sit on the CCDS advisory board alongside such luminaries as Angela Davis, Timuel Black (who served on Barack Obama's 2004 Senate campaign committee), and musician Pete Seeger. Martinez is also a board member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, the parent organization of Progressives for Obama. Martinez and Van Jones together attended a "Challenging White Supremacy" workshop which advanced the theme that "all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration" with blacks.
In 2005 Jones and the Ella Baker Center produced the "Social Equity Track" for the United Nations' World Environment Day celebration, a project that eventually would evolve into the Baker Center's Green-Collar Jobs Campaign -- "a job-training and employment pipeline providing 'green pathways out of poverty' for low-income adults in Oakland."
Soon after attending the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2007, Jones launched "Green For All," a non-governmental organization "dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty … advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy - especially for people from disadvantaged communities."
In 2008 Jones published his first book, The Green Collar Economy, which focused on environmental and economic issues. The book received favorable reviews from such notables as Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Laurie David, Winona LaDuke, environmentalist Paul Hawken, and NAACP President/CEO Ben Jealous.
Jones has served as a board member of numerous environmental and nonprofit organizations, including the Rainforest Action Network; Free Press; Bioneers (which accepts the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Report's warning that "[h]uman activity is putting such strain on the natural functions of Earth that the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted"); the National Apollo Alliance (which seeks "to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs"); the Social Venture Network (which aims "to build a just economy and sustainable planet"); and Julia Butterfly Hill's "Circle of Life" environmental foundation.
Jones was also a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called "Green Jobs Czar." Jones' formal title is "Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation" for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
In a July 2009 interview with Newsweek magazine, Jones said he could not explain exactly what a "green job" is:
"Well, we still don't have a unified definition, and that's not unusual in a democracy. It takes a while for all the states and the federal government to come to some agreement. But the Department of Labor is working on it very diligently. Fundamentally, it's getting there, but we haven't crossed the finish line yet."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406
Perhaps he is the point of the spear. Outrageous and expendable cannon fodder. Now Obama can back off a little and seem reasonable by dumping this clown and replacing him with someone who is 90% as bad, thus advancing his communist agenda. Alinsky.
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