Posted on 10/08/2011 7:37:53 AM PDT by stfassisi
Progressive TV and radio star Thom Hartmann took time off from covering Van Jones and his “Rebuild the Dream” movement on Wednesday to briefly talk to this columnist about his relationship with the Vladimir Putin regime of Russia. The conversation quickly went sour when Hartmann objected to questions about how much he is being paid by Moscow. He grabbed my video camera, covering the lens briefly in the process, and stomped away, objecting to “gotcha” questions.
The entire spectacle was captured on camera and posted on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Rz9fKXXdE
During another embarrassing incident, Van Jones refused to sign a copy of his Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM) manifesto when asked to autograph it. “No thank you,” he sternly said before asking, “Who are you?,” looking at my name badge, and walking away to the next adoring crowd of Van Jones groupies. Jones, a “former” communist, is the new face of the progressive movement that is backing the “Occupation Wall Street” protests and is trying to guarantee President Obama a second term. He was fired as Obama’s “green jobs czar” when the truth about his extremist background and statements started to emerge in reports originally by blogger Trevor Loudon and then Glenn Beck on Fox News.
While Jones made remarks in his own conference speech about losing his White House job, he also mocked Beck, noting that he had lost his program on the Fox News Channel. Progressives demanded Beck’s ouster after he began exposing billionaire hedge fund operator George Soros, a major funder of the liberal-left.
Soros, who operates an off-shore hedge fund with mysterious sources of cash, has just failed in his effort to have the European Court of Human Rights lift his conviction in an insider trading case in France.
The STORM document is about the history of a communist group that Jones led and whose members traveled to Cuba. He has, however, tried to leave his communist past behind as he reinvents himself as an American patriot trying to “rebuild the American dream.” At almost every stage of his career, he has been supported by money from Soros.
During an extended interview, Joelle Fishman of the Communist Party USA talked about Jones’s leadership in this new phase of the progressive movement and how the conference welcomed socialists and communists. She said the Communist Party, which usually fields a presidential candidate, will not run anyone against Obama in 2012. Communist literature was openly displayed at the conference and the Democratic Socialists of America, a group which backed Obama’s political career from the start, had an information table.
Judith LeBlanc, who runs a group called Peace Action and is one of the vice-chairs of the Communist Party, was introduced on stage as one of Van Jones’s “partners” in the “rebuild the American dream” movement.
Hartmann, a leader of Progressive Democrats of America, has a show distributed nationwide by Russia Today (RT) television and Free Speech TV. He apparently didn’t grasp the irony of trying to silence a recording device while touting the virtues of the First Amendment.
Hartmann spoke to me after participating in a “Taking Back the Media” panel discussion during the Take Back the American Dream Conference sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future. Hartmann was hailed in an official press release as a key part of Free Speech TV’s exclusive live coverage of the conference, which was held in Washington, D.C. October 3-5. An affiliate of the Campaign for America’s Future, the Institute for America’s Future, is heavily subsidized by Soros.
The head of Free Speech TV is Don Rojas, former press secretary to communist Maurice Bishop, the leader of the Caribbean island of Grenada before President Reagan ordered its liberation by American troops in 1983.
Rojas, in a taped interview, spoke fondly of the days when he worked for Grenada’s revolutionary government, even signing a copy of an address Bishop had made to the sixth summit of the non-aligned movement in Havana, Cuba, in 1979. Rojas said he helped to write the speech and was in Havana at the time. He signed it, “Forward Ever, Backward Never,” an inspirational quotation from Bishop which was supposed to capture the essence of the revolutionary process.
Rojas was captured, arrested, and then deported from Grenada by U.S. forces. Today, however, his channel is called the “anti-Fox” network and claims carriage on 200 cable affiliates, Dish Network and DirecTV, reaching 35 million homes. Free Speech TV has been promoting the “Occupation of Wall Street” protests and also distributes Al-Jazeera. Rojas says he has applied for cash from the Soros-funded Open Society Institute (OSI). “We are knocking on the OSI’s door as we speak,” he said.
In the speech, Bishop had talked about the “revolutionary process” which “has seen the emergence of successful and progressive revolutions in countries like Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Laos, and Kampuchea and, most recently Nicaragua and Iran, has had a vital impact on the balance of forces in today’s world.”
Kampuchea, the communist word for the country of Cambodia, saw a takeover by the communist Khmer Rouge, after America’s defeat in Vietnam, that took the lives of about two million people in a bloody genocide. Iran was taken over by radical Islamists, who remain in charge and are working to obtain nuclear weapons in order to destroy the state of Israel and threaten the U.S.
“Long live the Cuban revolution!” was one of the concluding phrases in the Bishop speech.
While Rojas talked openly about his service to Bishop and Castro, AFL-CIO official Karen Nussbaum was close-mouthed in regard to her trip to Cuba in 1970 as a member of the Venceremos Brigades to the communist-controlled island. “No,” she curtly replied, when asked to talk about a trip that reportedly included a meeting with Castro himself. Asked why she wouldn’t talk about it, she said it was “not relevant.” Nussbaum was on a panel discussing feminism that was organized by the Rockefeller Fund.
This was the second time I had tried to talk to Nussbaum. She appeared at a previous Campaign for America’s Future conference and turned and walked away when I raised similar questions. This time she had a press representative intervene to say that he would try to get answers to my questions. I am not holding my breath.
A published report about Nussbaum’s trip to Cuba said she “was impressed with Castro and with Cuban socialism.” In an oral history of her days as a young radical, Nussbaum talked about the large number of Weathermen in the brigades to Cuba. The Weathermen became a terrorist group, the Weather Underground, after being brainwashed and trained in guerrilla warfare in Cuba by Castro’s intelligence operatives.
Nussbaum heads the AFL-CIO’s three-million-strong Working America affiliate. Her boss, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka, was a featured speaker at the Take Back the American Dream Conference and referred to the protests on Wall Street, saying that “It’s our time” and calling Van Jones “my friend.”
FORMER?? LOL!
They used to teach the truth about communist countries when I was in elementary school or so it seems. Can’t quite remember the age but I remember being actually taught that the upper party officials had everything they wanted but the borgeoius had what they were given. Sound familiar? Religion is the opiate of the masses to them and we were taught that the communist Chinese inserted bamboo shoots under fingernails to punish citizens with faith, among other things. These people are not on God’s side for sure.
"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html
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"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."
Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=
“Perestroika: Mikhail Gorbachev’s program of economic, political, and social restructuring which ultimately led to the end of the Soviet Union”
Remember, Russians are known as great chess players. Most of us, unfortunately, suck at simple checkers. Putin’s dream is to restore the old USSR.
I can't say I share that experience, I attended elementary school in the 60s.
I came across 2 articles recently which I believe the timing is not by coincidence
The first one is propaganda asserting that communism loves the poor and is compassionate.
Article-Chavez to seize homes and hotels for the poor on idyllic Los Roques
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chavez-to-seize-homes-and-hotels-for-the-poor-on-idyllic-los-roques-2367385.html
The second is just brazen support of Communism by mainstream media ABC News on line titled “Only Communism can save liberal democracy”
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2011/10/03/3331164.htm
Things are being ramped around the world that has been well organized and planned
Thanks. I’ll take a look when I have more time. Gotta get ready to leave now.
And thanks for posting this thread. I’m definitely going to read this most interesting article more carefully later.
It just dawned on me that the (communist revolutionary) New Black Panther Party met with some State newspaper or TV station in Russia some months ago.
I was amazed of how much infiltration of communism in our country that was so well organized in the 40”s and 50’s when I read through the declassified FBI files of Cardinal Spellman and Bishop Fulton J Sheen
Declassified Cardinal Francis Spellman
http://vault.fbi.gov/Cardinal%20Francis%20Spellman
Declassified Fulton Sheen Files
http://vault.fbi.gov/Bishop%20Fulton%20Sheen
Wow. Good memory! Do you also remember the ‘Fife’ character that was interviewed telling of his story of his time in Russia and conversing with a Communist woman about Obama? I have no idea if it’s credible, tho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJty-It1cS0
I wonder if Van Jones has ever had a ‘real’ job.
Yep. I once asked a former KJB agent on YouTube about Putin and the KJB going ‘underground’ and reforming. He basically replied...”Once KGB...always KGB.”
Many here on FR tend to dismiss and discredit Glenn Beck, but he was all over this night after night for years. Really old news to me, thanks to him. He’s also single handedly responsible for at least getting Van Jones booted from the WH.
Trevor Louden’s NewZeal blog is also a fascinating treasure trove of info about the Communist ties to this WH. Two Degrees of Obama gets you to anyone who’s anyone in the world of Communism for the past fifty years.
Unfortunately, it is still true that “None dare call it treason.”
And, unfortunately, our ruling elite, who are either useful idiots or actual true believers, will see to it that justice, especially the proper punishment for treason, is never even discussed for their fellow travelers.
Anyone who dismisses him and/or what he reports is either a know-nothing idiot or a leftist trying to discredit him.
Of course he is. All the leaders, movers and shakers of the left are. You don’t think the come up with stuff on their own. Guys like Howard Zinn, Jones and others were placed here to destroy the fabric of our society and cause it to fall. It seems to be working quite well until the people started waking up about 2 years ago. Those of us that watched knew from the beginning always could see through it. Unfortunately most of the people were blind. Some still are but they are learning.
I read through the FBI files of Bishop Sheen and Cardinal Spellman many years ago and what I found odd is why did our government spend so much time following 2 of the most anti Communists of that time period as if they were something to fear.
Russia's Medvedev hails "comrade" Obama
Associated Foreign Press (AFP) ^ | April 2, 2009 | Anna Smolchenko
"Russia's Dmitry Medvedev hailed Barack Obama as "my new comrade" Thursday after their first face-to-face talks"
For anyone interested here is a transcript from WND
Given that many aspects of BHO's life appear to be hidden and what we do know is that he is in fact a biological / ideological child of 1960's Marxists and radicals continuing on through college and most of his life -- it's a plausible story IMO. Though of course ideal to be rejected as "tin-foil hat" by many but especially by those wanting to hide it.
It seems to be that among a myriad of sources to prove Soviet shenanigans the Venona papers -- if they are ever fully translated -- would knock skeptics of thses kinds of stories off their high horses
Thom Hartmann is a pencil-neck commie.
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