The "True Identity" Of Van Jones

Some people are wondering who is next after Van Jones. But the Van Jones story is not over. And we still don't know who hired this "obscure" official, as some on the left are now trying to refer to him. Some of these controversies are currently being investigated by the new media. Blogger Trevor Loudon, who broke the story about Jones' communist background, thinks White House official Valerie Jarrett needs to be seriously scrutinized. She appears to have had a family connection to Barack Obama's childhood mentor, Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis.

For the record, this "obscure" official technically worked at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), established within the Executive Office of the President. It "coordinates Federal environmental efforts and works closely with agencies and other White House offices in the development of environmental policies and initiatives." Yet, he never went through a Senate confirmation hearing.

Meanwhile, representatives of various George Soros-funded organizations are coming to the defense of the identified communist.

John Podesta, the President and CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, hailed Jones as an "exceptional and inspired leader who has fought to bring economic and environmental justice to communities across our country."

Justin Ruben of MoveOn.org said Jones had "worked tirelessly to bring jobs and environmental progress to some of the poorest communities in our nation. His dedication and leadership are exactly what we need more of in Washington. And his resignation is a loss to this Administration."

Josh Silver of the Free Press calls Jones "one of our most visionary and principled young leaders."

Questions about Van Jones personally are not over, either. It's been reported that Van Jones is not his real name. He is really Anthony Jones.

By the same token, Barack Obama was once Barry Soetoro. It's not exactly clear when his name was changed, and when or if it was reflected on official documents.

Jones and Obama put a lot of importance in names. Jones named his son Cabral, after African Marxist Amilcar Cabral. So what happened with "Van?"

In an interview with Ariane Conrad, the person who largely wrote his best-selling book, Jones said, "Well my true identity, of course, is Anthony Jones from Jackson, Tenn. One might be able to use a search engine to figure that out."

He may have been referring to the fact that his "true identity" had been previously revealed in a New Yorker article, "Greening the Ghetto," by Elizabeth Kolbert. She noted, "Van Jones, born Anthony Jones, grew up in Jackson, Tennessee, a small town about ninety miles east of Memphis." Kolbert explained that "After high school, Jones enrolled at the University of Tennessee at Martin. The first day of his freshman year, he decided that he needed a new identity, or, at least, a new name. Anthony Jones was dull. He chose Van because, he told me, 'it has a little touch of nobility, but at the same time it's not overboard.'" On another occasion, he said he picked "Van" because it sounded cool.

If he got a new name his freshman year of college, then why is he listed years later as "Anthony Jones" in the 2005 IRS form 990 filed by the organization he ran, the Ella Baker Center? The form is actually signed by "Anthony K. Van Jones" but printed as "Anthony K. 'Van' Jones," with the name "Van" in quotation marks.

By 2006, it is back to "Anthony K. Jones" and by 2007 it has become "Anthony 'Van' Jones."

In his statement, Podesta said that Jones, whatever his real name and true identity, had "chosen to resign because he believed he was serving as a distraction to the President's agenda. I respect that decision." Podesta was co-chair of the Obama-Biden Transition project and employed Jones before he went to the White House CEQ.

But how could he have been a "distraction" when the major media had been ignoring the story? Jones was forced to resign, as the Marxist "progressives" at the Rag Blog website fully understand, because the investigation of Jones was getting too close for comfort for Obama and his inner circle. Sacking Jones was a way for the White House and the major media, just beginning to take an interest in the story, to move on.

It is apparent that Jones was thrown "under the bus" because too many of Obama's close associates, including Jarrett, are implicated in his hiring. Jarrett had said that "we" had recruited Jones. Who is "we?"

Obama himself obviously approved the decision to bring him aboard. After all, he is the President. Jones and Obama were photographed together. What is the nature of their relationship?

Rep. Mike Pence was the only member of the House Republican Leadership to call for Jones to go. But the resignation has not resulted in any coherent explanation of how he was hired in the first place.

Just before Jones jumped ship, Senator Kit Bond of Missouri sent a letter asking for congressional hearings into the appointment. Among other things, he noted, "Last year, Mr. Jones in a radio interview stated his goals as a 'complete revolution' to 'transform the whole society' away from capitalism. These recent comments remove the credibility of his assertions that his past radical statements and actions such as the creation of the group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM) rooted in Marxism and Leninism merely reflect youthful sentiments in the distant past."

In fact, I am not aware of any claims by Jones that his involvement in STORM was just a matter of being too youthful. He never replied to my calls or emails and I was forced to file a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to try to get answers.

His Marxist rhetoric about a "complete revolution" was made to "Uprising Radio" in April of 2008 and brought to light by Breitbart TV. Going beyond "systems of exploitation and oppression is a process," Jones said, that will take us beyond "eco-capitalism."

He explained, "So the green economy will start off as a small sub-set and we're going to push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole society."

In other words, environmentalism and "green jobs" are the cover for implementing Marxism. Obviously, Jones has not changed. Only his methods have changed.

Bond sent his letter in his capacity as ranking member of the Green Jobs and the New Economy Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. But the chairman of this subcommittee, to whom Bond sent the letter, is socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a booster of Jones! So the chances of any hearings were always zero to begin with.

For his part, Sanders responded that Democrats should have stood by Jones. "To surrender to them is ridiculous, because they're not going to stop. They're just going to go after the next guy. We need to be standing up to them more vigorously and exposing their lies."

He did not identify what "lies" he was talking about. The fact is that Jones was nailed by his own associations and statements. As he told Conrad, all you had to do was use a search engine.

Before going on to the "next guy," it's the job of the conservative media which took this story seriously to examine how Jones got his job. Trevor Loudon's New Zeal blog is still on top of it. Glenn Beck should not let the Jones story drop now. And that means exposing those who are now defending Jones.

Speaking of Jones, Josh Silver of the Soros-funded Free Press says that "progressives" have a responsibility to "defend the public servants and innocent people who are being attacked..."

Their idea of "innocent" is someone who openly associated himself with an international movement that has taken the lives of more than 100 million truly innocent people. International communism is still the biggest "death panel" the world has ever known.

Which raises the question: why do modern "progressives" want to celebrate the work of a communist?

BEST IDEA OF THE DAY Vet Jarrett and audit her finances since she's been in the WH---and 6 years past. Then Vet everyone she's recommended as a Czar.

KEEP IN MIND Obama gave Jones $30 Billion to do with as he pleased.....other reports say Czar Jones oversaw the allocation of some $80 Billion in all. Jones also helped write the $800 Billion stimulus bill.

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HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM--- AND HER NAME IS VALERIE JARRETT

Ousted czar Van Jones's brand of anti-Americanism, and economic radicalism was familiar to the Chicago cabal, now in the WH.

According to several WH sources, Jones was hired EVEN AFTER concerns were raised when Jones's troubling background materials came back attached to "Standard Form 86 Questionnaire for National Security Positions."

A source inside the White House Counsel's office says that their office had recently begun to look into whether Van Jones had recently had contact with this friends and former co-workers at "Color for Change," the leftist group Jones helped found, and which launched the advertiser boycott against Fox News' Glenn Beck. "Color for Change" ramped up its protest of Beck after he began attacking the Obama Administration's "Czar" programs, including Jones.

The White House legal office was also looking into the timing of a website that was launched late Friday, VanJones.net; earlier in the week the site had been "Under Construction."

The counsel's office places part of the blame on the Office for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, which is overseen by Obama Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President Valerie Jarrett. Jones's "czar" job was created by the OIAPE, and Jarrett interviewed Jones for the position.

In speeches before far-left groups over the past five months, Jarrett touted Jones's hiring, in part, because the groups, many of which count 9/11 truthers and radical environmentalists and anti-capitalists as members, were familiar with Jones's brand of anti-Americanism and economic radicalism. "This wasn't simply Valerie Jarrett rubberstamping her guy," says a White House source. "You don't fill a position like this without his hire being approved at a couple of different levels at least."

But Jarrett did view Jones as a critical member of the administration for her outreach efforts, in part, because he was so well known and respected in the radical-left world the administration is counting on to help with issues like health care and cap and tax, and, more importantly, campaign efforts in 2010.

Playing to those types is another reason Jarrett's office approved the invitation of Jameel Jaffer, who runs the ACLU's "national security project," to the White House Ramadan dinner. Jaffer, a Canadian citizen, attended the dinner Obama said was being held for American Muslims.

Jaffer is a cause célèbre to the far left for his career of litigating against the United States in support of terrorists and radical Islamists, and has proudly touted his awards from groups like CAIR. "We had other names on the list for invitations, but Jarrett's office wanted Jaffer in the room. We were told it was important," says a White House source. "It was made clear that his presence was something senior folks here wanted to happen."

Jaffer has filed lawsuits challenging the FBI's "national security letter" authority, the constitutionality of warrantless wiretaps, and has been a leader in pushing for the shut down of Guantánamo Bay, and providing legal rights to terrorists held by the United States overseas in such countries as Iraq and Afghanistan. His efforts enabled the leaking of "torture photos" out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and some sources inside the CIA believe he was one of the lawyers who provided legal advice to the Dept of Justice to pursue an investigation into enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA.

"Given the groups Jarrett cultivates and keeps engaged, she needs to be able to point to people like Jones and Jaffer to keep our base happy," explains the former transition aide.

Jarrett's office isn't just about hiring anti-American presidential senior staff or inviting them to posh official dinners at the White House, though. Jarrett's office, according to White House sources, was influential in advocating for the creation of a "chief diversity officer" (CDO) at the FCC, as well as numerous other senior positions on regulatory and advisory commissions within the federal government bureaucracy.

"One of the reasons they held off on nominating confirmable positions at agencies like the FCC was so the White House could look at the structure of those agencies and where they could create jobs more in line with the President's thinking, so they create a post like diversity chief, and then we have a blueprint for the nominated chairs or staff directors to follow. T

That's how we got [FCC CDO] Mark Lloyd," explains a former Obama transition staffer. Lloyd's job is, in part, to look for ways to create more "diversity" in media ownership, a policy approach that is viewed as a backdoor way to put in place a kind of "Fairness Doctrine."

Obama friend Cass Sunstein, a former colleague at the University of Chicago Law School, is now administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs within the Office of Management and Budget. Known inside the White House as the "Regulation Czar," Sunstein is tasked with developing regulations around the policies for environmental, healthcare, and safety issues (NOTE: Sunstein can do and undo ANY regulation. He believes animals should have lawyers to sue people). According to administration sources, Sunstein's office is looking for ways to impose through the regulatory process those Obama White House health care, environmental, and labor policies that do not survive the legislative process.

"The goal from this White House is to have as much nonspecific language passed by Congress in policy areas like health care and the environment and then use Sunstein's office to put in place the regulatory language called for by Congress that gets us to where we want to be. It may very well be the most important job in this administration, given the lack of success we may have on Capitol Hill," says a White House source.

SOURCE http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/08/valerie-jarretts-show

Thanks pissant.

[snip] Meanwhile, representatives of various George Soros-funded organizations are coming to the defense of the identified communist. John Podesta, the President and CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, hailed Jones as an "exceptional and inspired leader who has fought to bring economic and environmental justice to communities across our country." Justin Ruben of MoveOn.org said Jones had "worked tirelessly to bring jobs and environmental progress to some of the poorest communities in our nation. His dedication and leadership are exactly what we need more of in Washington. And his resignation is a loss to this Administration." Josh Silver of the Free Press calls Jones "one of our most visionary and principled young leaders." ...In his statement, Podesta said that Jones, whatever his real name and true identity, had "chosen to resign because he believed he was serving as a distraction to the President's agenda. I respect that decision." Podesta was co-chair of the Obama-Biden Transition project and employed Jones before he went to the White House CEQ... It is apparent that Jones was thrown "under the bus" because too many of Obama's close associates, including Jarrett, are implicated in his hiring. Jarrett had said that "we" had recruited Jones. Who is "we?" ...But the resignation has not resulted in any coherent explanation of how he was hired in the first place... [Jones'] Marxist rhetoric about a "complete revolution" was made to "Uprising Radio" in April of 2008 and brought to light by Breitbart TV. Going beyond "systems of exploitation and oppression is a process," Jones said, that will take us beyond "eco-capitalism." ...the Green Jobs and the New Economy Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works... chairman... is socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a booster of Jones! ...For his part, Sanders responded that Democrats should have stood by Jones. "To surrender to them is ridiculous, because they're not going to stop. They're just going to go after the next guy. We need to be standing up to them more vigorously and exposing their lies." He did not identify what "lies" he was talking about. The fact is that Jones was nailed by his own associations and statements... Josh Silver of the Soros-funded Free Press says that "progressives" have a responsibility to "defend the public servants and innocent people who are being attacked..." Their idea of "innocent" is someone who openly associated himself with an international movement that has taken the lives of more than 100 million truly innocent people. International communism is still the biggest "death panel" the world has ever known. [end]

G'night all.

http://conservativeamerican.org/tag/anthony-van-jones/

“...“Van Jones, a self-described former communist who was arrested and briefly detained during the Rodney King riots, was interviewed by Newsweek’s Daniel Stone for a July 28, 2009 web-only story. The article begins: ‘Washington is spending $60 billion to create the careers of the future, but not a single green job yet exists. Obama’s ‘green czar’ explains.’ - Except Jones doesn’t really “explain” anything at all. Instead, Jones tells Newsweek that the real problem is that no one in authority can agree about just what a “green job” actually is: ‘Well, we still don’t have a unified definition, and that’s not unusual in a democracy…But the Department of Labor is working on it very , diligently…Since Jones literally wrote the book on “green jobs” (2008’s The Green Collar Economy), this revelation doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.” — Another great choice of friends by Barack Hugo Obama! UPDATE 9/4/9: Along with being a communist, signing a petition that says Bush is responsible for 9/11 (See Scandal dated 9/3/9), and admitting he doesn’t know what green jobs really are (above), Jones is caught on tape calling himself an A**hole and saying republicans are A**holes (Scandal dated 9/2/9). Fox News notes it was Rodney ‘Can’t We All Just Get Along King’ who made Van Jones famous: “I met all these young radical people of color — I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of,’” he said in a 2005 interview with the East Bay Express. Jones told the newspaper he stayed in San Francisco, and for the next 10 years worked with a lot of the people he met in jail. Months after the King verdict came down, Jones said, “I was a communist.” At the time he became involved with a group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), which described itself as committed to Marxist and Leninist ideas. He also started putting pressure on police in San Francisco, monitoring and drawing attention to allegations of police brutality. He was quoted accusing the police department of “killing black people.”…A declared “communist” during the 1990s, Jones once associated with a group that looked to Mao Zedong as an inspiration. Jones’ exceptional past is reminiscent of associations noted during the presidential campaign, when then-Sen. Barack Obama doggedly fended off claims that he was tied to radicals and overzealous activists….(Van Jones) also has consistently leaned on racially charged language, pointing the finger at “white polluters and the white environmentalists” for “steering poison” to minority communities!” –ConservativeAmerican.org’s take: Jones is another of Obama’s clearly Racist Friends. The President has put him in charge of spending $30-Billion dollars!! A consistent theme to this amazing, constantly growing Scandals List is Obama’s incredibly poor judgement in picking friends and associates who are bizarre, crazy radicals! This is what we warned people about before the election! Not many believed us. We were just ‘right wing extremists’ trying to steal the election from a half-black man. Nonsense. People are now seeing Obama’s true color…Socialism. Glenn Beck has been following our lead lately, highlighting a few of the more crazy Obama Appointment Scandals. Van Jones is a real radical who should be fired. So is Barack Obama. Obama said in his own book that he purposely seeks out Communist friends. We are not making that up. See page 1 of the scandals list. Read More from Phil Kerpen at Americans for Prosperity.UPDATE 9/5/9: MotorCityTimes.com has video of Jones calling George W. Bush a “Crack-head!” See it here. UPDATE 9/6/7: Van Jones is forced to Resign saying the accusations against him are not true!!! One down, about 60 more to go!

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