Truth and Time

There has been huge debate over the recently shown White House budget. It was historic and critics from both sides do not like it. One side feels that the budget doesn't go far enough since these critics are hugely extreme. One side rightly sees that these budget proposals will harm the social safety net. This historic attack on Medicare and Social Security is sick. There has been $1.4 trillion in spending cuts over the past two years. This is a new stage in the U.S. ruling class's offensive against the social rights of the population. “I am willing to make tough choices that may not be popular within my own party, because there can be no sacred cows for either party,” Obama wrote in a letter to Congress included in the budget. He or the President admits that his plan is a repudiation of the programs from the Great Society and the New Deal. The budget plan wants to slash $400 billion from Medicare spending over ten years. It will have a new measure of the cost of living that would mean an effective cut of $130 billion from Social Security benefits during the same period. These cuts are very unpopular. There is a Pew Research poll earlier in 2013 that says that 87 percent of Americans are opposed to cuts in Social Security and 82 percent oppose cuts in Medicare. The budget proposal comes less than a week after the slim March jobs report. This was the lowest jobs growth in 9 months with 496,000 human beings dropping out the labor force last month. There are still about 4 million Americans who will have their federal extended unemployment benefits slashed by 11 percent until at least October 1. This will not be addressed in the Obama budget proposal. President Barack Obama tries to justify these radical cuts as being a balanced and responsible approach. He wants to cut Social Security via a CPI plan. He wants to have universal pre-K (which I have no issue with), a regressive 1 dollar per tax increase on cigarettes (to fund universal preschool. This tax will mostly affect the poorest and most vulnerable section of society), and tax breaks to manufacturers. He wants an infrastructure bank to help fund private and public capital to support infrastructure projects. Some of these projects are legitimate, except for some pipelines, which could damage public health and workers safety. The President believes that his tax subsidies for U.S. corporations will grow the economy (with jobs and investments via the expansion of the SelectUSA initiative). The Chained CPI model will cut Social Security payments by $130 billion over ten years, as well as $35 billion from federal workers’ retirement benefits.  Unemployment and disability benefits can be cut in a billion dollars for over ten years. The Republicans even want more cuts. Senate Minority Mitch McConnell and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan are so extreme that they want more austerity action in America beyond the budget. The President said that he met the Republicans more than half way, which is accurate, but he or the President was always neoliberal and in favor of austerity like his predecessors. He boasted that he has already implemented $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction; these cuts have up to this point avoided entitlement spending. He might even make more concessions to the GOP. We have 2 parties that are very similar to each other and the political elite. To gut the programs that help poor and working human beings have been a brainchild of the elite for generations.

Eugenics and the anti-immigration movement have always been linked for over 100 years. The first immigrants were Native Americans from Asia into the Western Hemisphere thousands of years ago. There was massive immigration in America in the 19th century and 20th century. Many of them came from Eastern Europe, Ireland, Southern Europe, the Caribbean, Asia, Latin America, Mexico, and throughout the Earth. About 600,000 to 1,250,000 human being per year entered the United States via Ellis Island (except during World War I). Many eugenicists back then hated the fact that those from southern and Eastern Europe including from other locations were coming into America. So, they made up racist, false theories about how immigration harmed America biologically, culturally, or socially. They wanted federal legislation to restrict immigration from non-Western European countries. Many immigrants were scapegoated as Communists and in other evil terminologies. We know that Eugenics Record Office Superintendent Harry Laughlin was a big anti-immigration lobbyist. He was influential in getting the racist Immigration Restriction Act of 1924. It was sponsored by Committee Chairman Albert Johnson. The law limited total immigration to 165,000 — about 15-20% of peak years. More importantly, it restricted immigration from southern and eastern Europe countries to only 9% of the total. Northern and western European countries got 86% of the quota, even though they made up the minority of immigrants in 1923. As early as 1790, Virginia made a naturalization law to limit citizenship to only free white persons. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first measure in U.S history to specifically target immigrants by race or ethnicity. The Boston-based Immigration Restriction League joined this chorus of alarm with calls to require a "literacy test" as a condition of entry into the United States. The evil 1924 law continued until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was passed by LBJ (as agreed to by Edward Kennedy). President John F. Kennedy believed in immigration rights and wrote about it eloquently in his literature. Today, we have more modern links between the eugenics movement and the anti-immigrant movement. In our generation, there has been a push for immigration reform. You know my view on this issue. I believe in immigration reform that is fair to all parties and a preservation of immigration rights without unjust ICE raids, breaking up of families, and so forth. There have been reasonable voices on many sides of this issue, but the extremists (many of whom are bigots) want to scapegoat certain ethnicities when the immigration issue is complex. We know that the radical anti-immigration movement even now is tied to eugenics. John Tanton was one man who was the architect of the modern day anti-immigration movement. He wrote a paper back in 1975 entitled, "The Case for Passive Eugenics." The paper wants eugenics more palatable to the public. Tanton was so extreme that he wanted to restrict childbearing to the years between 20 and 35, which are the years of maximum reproductive efficiency. In the paper, Tanton also noted, “Hitler’s reign in Nazi Germany did little to advance the discussion of eugenics among sensitive persons.” Tanton later formed a pro-eugenics organization, the Society for Genetic Education (SAGE). Tanton was the friend of Harry Weyher or the former president of the Pioneer Fund (this group is racist and believes in the inferiority of human beings of color. Their goal was to use research as a means to advance the lie that blacks are genetically less intelligent than whites). Through his relationship with Weyher, Tanton received funding from the Pioneer Fund that helped him grow the Federation of American Immigration Reform or FAIR. FAIR is one of the leading anti-immigration organizations in the USA now. They hate even legal immigration, which is immoral. FAIR received over 1 million dollars from the Pioneer Fund over years. The leading anti-immigration group in California is called CAPS or the Californians for Population Stabilization. CAPS received funding from the Pioneer Fund.  This piece of work Tanton said that, “I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that." Tanton wants white supremacy and that is why I will always be pro-immigration (as a means to destroy white supremacy and for moral justifications). More ties continue to exist between eugenics and the anti-immigration movement. Donald Collins, former FAIR board member and current co-chair of FAIR’s advisory board, is also on the advisory committee of and contributor to the Journal of Social Political and Economic Studies (JSPES), a publication founded and edited by Roger Pearson, a longtime eugenicist and anti-Semite who has received funding from the Pioneer Fund for his promotion of eugenics. Pearson once asserted, “If a nation with a more advanced, more specialized, or in any way superior set of genes mingles with, instead of exterminating an inferior tribe, then it commits racial suicide...” Pearson and Tanton know each other and written cordial letters to each other on plenty times. Some even in the Progressive for Immigration Reform (who are not true progressives at all on this issue) want population control. The reality is that we have less illegal immigration than years ago, deportations are up, and immigrants are not our enemy (a corrupt system is). Our common enemy is our enemy not immigrants. We know who the common enemy is completely. Immigration is a hallmark of human civilization.

Bahrain has a right to have freedom. There have been protests in summer of 2010. There has been some in mid-February of 2011. Bahrainis want democracy not tyranny. They desire King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalif's repressive regime to be replaced and ended. The Bahrain protesters have acted courageously. They defy government diktats. Some of them experienced beatings, tear gas, rubber gullets, live fire, arrests, torture, and disappearances. They are still going in their actions.  There is a group called the Bahrain Center for Human Rights. It advances civil, political, and economic freedom. It wants to end racial discrimination. They love to disseminate human rights culture and protecting victims' rights. Any Bahraini who loves liberty is risking their lives for freedom. The Al-Khalifa despots hate human rights, democratic values, and justice. There is iron fist governance in Bahrain. Children and youths are treated like adults. On March 31, 2013, 17 year old Hussein Hashem Fardan was arrested. He was sought for over 2.5 years. He was hiding to stay safe. He was ambushed by clothed officers. He was severely beating and sexually assaulted and threatened with rape. He faces detention and torture. He was unjustly or unjustifiably charged with “detonating a bomb for terrorist purposes.” He’s denied legal representation. He’ll be imprisoned, tortured and perhaps killed. Security forces used violence in Bahrain's Grand Prix last year. Many activists, journalists, and protesters were targeted. There were tea gas, rubber bullets, shotguns, stun grenades, and baton beatings. BCHR received reports and evidence about house raids. There were masked men in civilian clothes. Many arbitrary arrests came about. BCHR talked about numerous reports and documented evidence of house raids. There have been masked men in civilian clothes are involved and arbitrary arrested came later. Many youths have been arrested since April 1 in the number of 10 or more children. Villages close to the Bahraini International Circuit have been targeted. Human Rights First director Brian Dooley told Formula 1 head Bernie Ecclestone: “One issue is whether or not human rights violations might be happening as a result of the race being there.” “If the regime arrests people in order to intimidate others from peacefully protesting around Formula One, then the organizers, participants, and sponsors really need to say something about that.” Last year, Al-Khalifa despots weren’t held accountable. The BCHR has reported other atrocities against Bahrainian citizens as well. On March 29, BCHR said 16 innocent civilians (including children) were sentenced to 15 years imprisonment despite no evidence or charges brought against them. On April 8, BCHR published its new report. It’s titled “Bahrain: Limited Medical Access and Breach of Medical Neutrality….A need for accountability and an end to ongoing violations.” There are militarized hospitals, medical access for injured victims, and care for political prisoners. BCHR documented violations of the Geneva Convention in Bahrain as well. Yet, the Pentagon is an ally of Bahrain. The reason is that Washington wants Bahrain to host America's Fifth Fleet. They want to use Bahrain as a means to handle imperialism in the Middle East. How can you be against terrorism when you ally with a terrorist regime in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia (that murders its own people)? Bahrain still has riot police, and other violations of human civil liberties. King Hamed rules with an iron fist. CCTV cameras monitor a lot locations in Bahrain. Even some medics have been detained, tortured, and abused without charges. Minister of Justice Khald bin Ali Al-Khalifa militarized Salmaniya Hospital.  

The counterrevolution is ever real. Three months into the second term of the administration, we see reality. There has been an expansion of militarism in America, an attack on the social safety net, and an unprecedented assault on democratic rights. Others are right to believe that policies of Reagan continued under Clinton, Bush Jr., and even the current President Barack Obama. Agents in the administration act as agents of the banking elite. This is shown in domestic and foreign policy matters. Trillions of dollars have been sent to the big banks. There has been record stock market profit, but high poverty is still a reality in America. The 2012 election came about, because most Americans viewed Obama as the lesser of two evils. In reality, the current administration has shown more effective evil. Mitt Romney lost, because he was so in league with the radical austerity agenda of the two party system. We today witness a historic assault on the social programs that aided American society. Many of these programs came from the 1930's and the 1960's. The Republicans advance draconian cuts, yet the Democrats want to slash social spending. This is expressed in the current budget proposal. Sequester cuts can harm more from low income women (from the WIC program), education, the military, and other avenues of American society. We have Michigan Governor Rick Snyder with having almost unlimited powers over the city of Detroit. He allowed the emergency manager Kevyn Orr to control money to benefit Wall Street interests. Detroit is being privatized and harmed. Even in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel (or Obama's former chief of staff) plans to close down 61 public schools. This could be the largest single school closure announcement in U.S. history. While the US Federal Reserve prints $85 billion a month to buy up the mortgage and other assets possessed by the banks, nothing is done to aid cash-strapped cities and states throughout the country. The aim is to force through historically unprecedented cuts in public education, health care and retirement programs that benefit the working class. In foreign policy, we know about the Western provocative acts in East Asia. That means that the West is flying nuclear capable bombers through a region with national and geopolitical conflicts (like North Korea). There are drone attacks and assassinations of U.S. citizens without due process of law. Even the administration wants to justify the government to assassinate U.S. citizens on U.S. soil under certain circumstances for the first time. The White House has threatened whistleblowers and jailed Bradley Manning for publicly exposing the truth that the war crimes by the West is truly common. The Republicans and the Democrats in their leadership is ruled by the Western establishment (with its banker agents). The ruling class with their faux institutions is discredited. That is why we need revolutionary, independent voices as a means to build up society. The political establishment uses the policies of continuity spanning decades and thousands of years as a means to control as much of society as possible. You cannot blame totally the Republicans for rising unemployment, homelessness, foreclosures, rising health care costs, genocide in Africa (from Libya to Congo. Presidential Review Memorandum NSCM/46 back in 1978 wanted America to desire a more hands on approach to Africa), the harm to universal free quality education, etc. Both major parties in the West are responsible for this reality. The reason this is happening is that the establishment used the President as a means to present reactionary evil policies as somehow moderate, which they are not. This agenda is also to have the ruling elite to present bourgeois compromisers as somehow cutting edge when they are not. They are the water carriers of the Empire. When the President tried to praise Margaret Thatcher, you know we live in dangerous times. I still have hope for the future though. The Empire is harming folks of color and the whole human race. Now, we see that the President of the United States of America Barack Obama (though not perfect. He is still accountable for his individual, voluntary actions though) is the scapegoat of the centuries long oppressive system of white supremacy. That is the bigger picture you know.

 

 

There is an unique group called the Sun Valley Meetings. It is a summer camp that is similar to the Bohemian Grove, but it has differences. The Sun Valley Lodge was made in Idaho. It was built by the Pilgrim Society member Averell Harriman in the 1930's. Some of the most influential human beings in the West came into the location. By the early 1980's, New York investment banker Herbert Allen was looking for a location where he could organize yearly  meetings for his main client base. This base is made up of Hollywood producers and media tycoons. By 1983, Allen chose the Sun Valley lodge for this reason. Since then, yearly meetings have been held at the location. In its first 1983 meeting, only 35 businessmen were there. This number grew hugely after it was found as an ideal place for a short vacation mixed with some private business discussions. The meetings are expanded now. There are a few hundred participants that attend each year in July. This includes the wives and children of the invited members. These members use tennis, hiking, biking, kayaking, golfing, and a variety of other activities. At least half of the guests are billionaires not millionaires. Many come in via their own business jets. May economic topics are shown in these meetings. The Sun Valley is more exclusive than the Bohemian Grove. It only lasts for 5 days. The participants generally behave better, women and children are allowed in, less politicians are there, companies may differ, etc. The media is kept at distance at the Sun Valley meetings though. Many members are heads of the mainstream media. Folks from the CIA, CFR, Seagram, Coca Cola, etc. come there. Europe is represented as well. We know that Rupert Murdoch owns British Sky Broadcasting and many newspapers in the UK. The German media company is represented by CEO Thomas Middelhoff, owns 90% of RTL Group, which is the #1 TV and Radio Broadcaster in Europe. The second largest European TV company, SBS Broadcasting, is owned for 21% by Liberty Media through UGC Europe. J. Gordon Brown is a British visitor to the Sun Valley meetings. Brown is very close to Tony Blair. He has ties to the IMF, he is a Bilderberger, and is a member of the Privy Council. He gave the Bank of England operational independence from the British government in the conduct of monetary policy (like the FED). Brown was part of the very aristocratic Other Club for years along with the Duke of Devonshire (named Cavendish or one of the most powerful men in the world now), the 7th Marquess of Salisbury (Le Cercle), etc. Other members of the Other Club include Lord Carrington (Pilgrims Society president), Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne (major Pilgrims Society member), Lord Jacob Rothschild, Lord Rees-Mogg (media disinformation agent with Richard Mellon Scaife through Strategic Investments and Newsmax), Prince Charles, Lord Julian Amery (former head Le Cercle), Lord Kelvedon (Le Cercle), Tony Blair, Sir Edward Heath, Sir Denis Thatcher (husband of), and Winston S. Churchill (grandson of). The Sun Valley is not visited by many overly controversial human beings. The Sun Valley seems to be a vacation place where the elite relax in a less controversial fashion than the Bohemian Grove (which is very controversial to put it lightly). The media, entertainment, and political world ally with the Sun Valley Meetings. Nike's chairman and CEO Philip Knight, Bill Gates, Henry Vigil of Microsoft, George Tenet, and others came to the meetings once to witness a lecture on terrorism. Other members are Murdoch, Google's Sergey Brin, and Warren Buffett.

 

By Timothy