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[snip] The Socialist Realism, an ideology enforced by the Soviet state as the official standard for art, literature etc., was defined in 1934 at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet writers. It was based on the principle that the arts should glorify political and social ideals of communism. Every artist had to join the "Union of Soviet Artists", which was controlled by the state. The paintings had to be idealisations of political leaders and communist ideas.

Here is video of Glenn Beck discussing more of Van Jones' radical views. Van Jones said in a speech in February of this year "we're gonna change the whole system." Glenn Beck asked "do we want Communists in the United States Government as special advisors to the president?" (Watch Video)

Impact: Climate Depot Credited With Helping To Stop Obama From Enacting Climate Legislation! Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - By Marc Morano – Climate Depot The Washington Post's Andrew Freedman of paper's "The Capital Weather Gang", has written a thorough commentary on why he believes the man-made global warming movement is failing politically and scientifically to convince the public and lawmakers of the seriousness of the issue. Freedman appears to lay the fault directly at the feet of President Obama, writing that Obama's "mistakes may cost the planet dearly." Freedman also cites Climate Depot (and the Heartland Institute) as having made...

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Robert Gibbs is once again trashing George Bush, nine months into the new presidency, for the growing violence in Afghanistan. Some observations on that: 1) Obama's crash in the polls has come with record speed, and is not just because all of his policies are both to the left of the voters and are at odds with a bait-and-switch veneer of moderation in the campaign. Just as important is this sense that Obama serially whines ("reset button," "Bush did it," etc.), and in his comments about doctors, insurance companies, Super Bowl attendees, Vegas visitors, the Special Olympics, the wealthy, the...

President Obama’s Address to Students Across America September 8, 2009

Washington: An Indian-American Republican leader has questioned the characterisation of Senator Edward Kennedy, who died last week, as an "unsung hero" of the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal. "Senator Kennedy was instrumental to get more than 300 Bills to be enacted into law. We wish US-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act was one of them," Dallas-based Ashok Mago, chairman of US-India Forum, said in a statement. Mago was one of the key Indian American leaders to have played a significant role in mobilising the support for the Indo-US civilian nuclear bill at the Capitol Hill. Last week, Ramesh V Kapur, an...

Hopefully Sarah Palin realizes she's been invited to Hong Kong as a practical joke. CLSA, the Asia-focused broker who invited Mrs. Palin as keynote speaker for an Asian investment conference, is well known for their cheeky takes on investment research. In the past, they've polled Asian fortune tellers for index targets, hired anime cartoonists to draw Japanese research, and generally love to push the boundaries between entertainment and analysis. They are a real research firm, it's just that they love to sprinkle in some hilarity every now and then as a smart marketing gimmick. Sarah Palin is this year's big...

The Undead of the Banking World by Bill Bonner Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania Hey, the economy is not only recovering...it's becoming better than ever before! "Banks recover to their levels before the fall of Lehman," is a headline in this Monday's El Pais from Madrid. "Public assistance enables the world's largest 15 financial firms to return to the capitalization they had in September 2008," the article continues. The largest of the largest, HSBC, is now judged to be worth $186 billion, according to the stock market. China's ICBC is on its heels, with a market cap of $178 billion. BNP Paribas...

From Medscape Internal Medicine Seven Ways to Reduce Unnecessary Medical Costs -- Right Now! George D. Lundberg, MD I believe that there are still many ethical and professional American physicians and many intelligent American patients who are capable of, in an alliance of patients and physicians, doing "the right things." Their combined clout is being underestimated in the current debate on healthcare reform. Efforts to control costs in the US healthcare system date from at least 1932. With few exceptions, they have failed. Healthcare reform, 2009 politics-style, is again in trouble over cost control. It will really be a shame...

Another day, another Obama ch-ch-change promise broken: A former Treasury official has told the watchdog for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout program that President Obama's promise to restrict lobbyist access to the bailout was made purely for political reasons. Months after the administration's pledge, the lobbyist rules haven't been implemented and Neel Kashkari, the one-time czar of the agency's Troubled Asset Relief Program, told the office of the special inspector general for TARP that the pledge to craft safeguards against lobbyist influence was a defensive move. "Mr. Kashkari believed that this statement was purely for political reasons with Obama's...

Every week, the nation’s mightiest banks come to his court seeking to take the homes of New Yorkers who cannot pay their mortgages. And nearly as often, the judge says, they file foreclosure papers speckled with errors. He plucks out one motion and leafs through: a Deutsche Bank representative signed an affidavit claiming to be the vice president of two different banks. His office was in Kansas City, Mo., but the signature was notarized in Texas. And the bank did not even

[Please circulate in letters to the editor, town meetings, and the Internet]We received an E-mail from Organizing for America (Barack Obama's organization) that directed to us to Barack Obama's Web site. As shown below, the President of the United States has just been caught red-handed telling the American people a blatant falsehood about his so-called health care reform agenda. This information needs to be circulated as widely as possible to put Obama's "reform" (read "government takeover") down for good, and discredit his administration to prevent further damage to the United States during the next 3.5 years. Outright falsehood: "Every American...

A really good piece.

MR. KELLY: Good afternoon. I’d like to, first of all, make a few remarks at the top about Honduras, to give you an update. As you know, we’ve been working very hard with our partners in the hemisphere to reach our goal of restoring democratic and constitutional order in Honduras, and we continue to believe that the best solution to this is the San Jose Accord. As you know, President Zelaya is in Washington this week. He has meetings at the Organization of American States today. I’d refer you to them for further details on that. And on Thursday, Secretary...

The libtard who posted this calls it: Hardball - Mashup of Rep. Duncan Hunter's blithering, purposeful dissonance. I call it "Hunter bitchslaps the marxists" See link for video

“I hope I make it to December because I’m going to do everything in my power,” Fine said on a recent day in which he had sold a paltry $26 in items by midday. “I’ve got to figure out a way to survive.”

Go to the Washington Times to hear audio of the National Endowment for the Arts (something we should eliminate) working to push the Obama administration agenda. These people are putting it out to "artists" desperate for funding, that if they want access to the government coffers they better play along and help Chairman Obama pass his agenda. I'm disgusted by these people. This is beyond Republican or Democrat. This is outside the bounds of being American. This is what Obama means by "Change." This is why Obama and the Democrats want more money for everything. This is why they want...

In a recent survey, 65% of out-of-work respondents reported willingness to accept wages up to 30% lower than their previous compensation. And, 3% and 4%, respectively, said they would accept up to 40% and 50% of prior wages, according to the 2009 Annual Career Fair Survey released by Next Steps Career Solutions.

A gravelly campground off Interstate 40 in central Tennessee is a last refuge for a hodgepodge of Americans: Here you can get a $275-a-month camping spot with a 30-amp electric outlet and a scratchy Wi-Fi signal emanating from “the bathhouse” down the lane. “It’s my permanent home – for now,” says Terry Lee Ballard, who says he runs a small record label from his “tent condo,” which is replete with “redneck engineering” such as a tent-flap air-conditioning unit. As cities from Sacramento, Calif., to Tampa, Fla., debate the merits of tent cities to house newly homeless people (many of them...