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Regardless of Kessler’s past politics, the rightward shift in his views was first put on display in November, 2016 when his tirade against [Vice-Mayor of Charlottesville] Wes Bellamy began.”
In 2011, Jason Kessler worked for CNN as an “assignment editor”, but we are to believe that now he’s a neo-Nazi white supremacist.
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He said he would remain involved with the research arm of Renaissance, which uses complex mathematical equations to create trading strategies.
But it illustrates how the worlds of politics and business are colliding in the Donald Trump era.
The sunni in chief machine is breaking down also as the political desert wanders will be over the conflated idiots soon enough
and the inflammatory identity politic infiltration cross overs. The severe edges of both left and right will drop in the valley of
dry bones on their own accord.
It also point to the fact the conservatives where polluted beyond redemption in numbers still unappreciated in scope and design
and actually never where with the Keynesian veil of intent.
Wall Street class were taken care of by the government but that the smaller banks got crushed since many of them loaned money to
working-class people who didn’t get rescued by the government.
The elites took care of themselves.
Half federal agents (Church Committee) are essentially the same as BLM or Antifa money mosh pit.
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Sen Dianne Feinstein on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/status ... 7835896832
https://ekla.in/trends/the-republicans.html
https://ekla.in/trends.html
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trend indicates the liberals will not survive as charity fatigue narrative unfolds
net working capital diminishes is the root
fiat is not resources https://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/ ... are-114274
Republican and Democratic staff make their case to the parliamentarian about what goes in the bill and what stays out. It’s named for former Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who created the complicated system years ago.
Robert Byrd. Senator Robert Byrd was a Kleagle, a Klan recruiter, in his 20s and 30s. Robert C. Byrd, a Democrat, was a recruiter for the Klan while
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter.
and
Democrats even voted against an amendment from Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), that would have further
expanded the child tax credit.
Zechariah 7:10 ... Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, and the poor. And do not scheme against each other.
Irony of kkk democrats (((( rules ))))
Proverbs 31:9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.
dry bones
https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/status ... 7835896832
https://ekla.in/trends/the-republicans.html
https://ekla.in/trends.html
http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e171129
trend indicates the liberals will not survive as charity fatigue narrative unfolds
net working capital diminishes is the root
fiat is not resources https://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/ ... are-114274
Republican and Democratic staff make their case to the parliamentarian about what goes in the bill and what stays out. It’s named for former Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who created the complicated system years ago.
Robert Byrd. Senator Robert Byrd was a Kleagle, a Klan recruiter, in his 20s and 30s. Robert C. Byrd, a Democrat, was a recruiter for the Klan while
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter.
and
Democrats even voted against an amendment from Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), that would have further
expanded the child tax credit.
Zechariah 7:10 ... Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, and the poor. And do not scheme against each other.
Irony of kkk democrats (((( rules ))))
Proverbs 31:9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.
dry bones
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Written before his execution.
2 Timothy in Paul's Christological Hymns in 2:11–13:
It is a faithful saying:
For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him:
If we deny him, he also will deny us:
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
On the other hand, if the Pope says nothing, then he risks his moral authority, in the same way that Pope Pius XII lost his moral authority for not criticizing the Nazi Holocaust. According to Father Thomas Reese, an analyst at Religion News Service:
He risks either compromising his moral authority or putting in danger the Christians of that country.
I have great admiration for the pope and his abilities, but someone should have talked him out of making this trip.
He has full support.
He cannot deny those who seek.
Reason suggest the pending hour we are in
though we wish to avoid the darkness as warned.
Sola scriptura
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As you correctly noted H. "It basically describes the counter intuitive concept of how systemic risk can create a deflationary outcome in a sea of liquidity. We're floating up on a sea of liquidity now and few can grasp why that isn't necessarily inflationary. "
As we discussed sideways would be a good thing back then. As we noted balance sheet repairs.
I would reconsider regulation to assure swift compliances since I was admonished for just that recently.
The new compliance officer was unaware what actually what was in compliance but the
details where unassailing for that level of discussion anyways. Of course context matters but few
even consider the times. My point is secure in the matters of position has consequence's.
As discussed the thin line of confidence to arrogated self interests.
To consider the tide has turned would indeed be naïve as it was noted correctly as needless to say,
the Senate will not change this massive labor cost gap, either.
Apple will only bring jobs back to the US if some state government is foolish enough to pay them a giant subsidy to close the gap.
In short, US companies have off-shored their tax books because they can. Thanks to favorable tax rulings over the years this has been made all the easier by blatant but legal sheltering devices. DS
Bancor = Bitcoin <---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u0o0MEI_pY But we already knew that. Three step friction cost removal processes.
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
2 Timothy in Paul's Christological Hymns in 2:11–13:
It is a faithful saying:
For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
If we suffer, we shall also reign with him:
If we deny him, he also will deny us:
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
On the other hand, if the Pope says nothing, then he risks his moral authority, in the same way that Pope Pius XII lost his moral authority for not criticizing the Nazi Holocaust. According to Father Thomas Reese, an analyst at Religion News Service:
He risks either compromising his moral authority or putting in danger the Christians of that country.
I have great admiration for the pope and his abilities, but someone should have talked him out of making this trip.
He has full support.
He cannot deny those who seek.
Reason suggest the pending hour we are in
though we wish to avoid the darkness as warned.
Sola scriptura
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As you correctly noted H. "It basically describes the counter intuitive concept of how systemic risk can create a deflationary outcome in a sea of liquidity. We're floating up on a sea of liquidity now and few can grasp why that isn't necessarily inflationary. "
As we discussed sideways would be a good thing back then. As we noted balance sheet repairs.
I would reconsider regulation to assure swift compliances since I was admonished for just that recently.
The new compliance officer was unaware what actually what was in compliance but the
details where unassailing for that level of discussion anyways. Of course context matters but few
even consider the times. My point is secure in the matters of position has consequence's.
As discussed the thin line of confidence to arrogated self interests.
To consider the tide has turned would indeed be naïve as it was noted correctly as needless to say,
the Senate will not change this massive labor cost gap, either.
Apple will only bring jobs back to the US if some state government is foolish enough to pay them a giant subsidy to close the gap.
In short, US companies have off-shored their tax books because they can. Thanks to favorable tax rulings over the years this has been made all the easier by blatant but legal sheltering devices. DS
Bancor = Bitcoin <---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u0o0MEI_pY But we already knew that. Three step friction cost removal processes.
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
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weathervane
Without question, there’s a bull market in idiocy. And when there’s a bull market in idiocy, idiots get rich.
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Being an Idiot
Thus, for idiots’ sake, we’ve boiled The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Being an Idiot down to its crystalline essence:
One: Buy bitcoin north of $11,000.
Two: Buy FANG stocks at present valuations.
Three: Short the VIX at sub-10.
We consider these to be actions for idiots. But what do we know? Remember, idiots often make the wrong decision at precisely the right time.
So, with a little luck, those who follow this guide won’t just be idiots. They’ll be rich idiots to boot. Such is the poetry of life.
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leaking 5g data is all the future you will be allowed soon enough
weathervane
Without question, there’s a bull market in idiocy. And when there’s a bull market in idiocy, idiots get rich.
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Being an Idiot
Thus, for idiots’ sake, we’ve boiled The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Being an Idiot down to its crystalline essence:
One: Buy bitcoin north of $11,000.
Two: Buy FANG stocks at present valuations.
Three: Short the VIX at sub-10.
We consider these to be actions for idiots. But what do we know? Remember, idiots often make the wrong decision at precisely the right time.
So, with a little luck, those who follow this guide won’t just be idiots. They’ll be rich idiots to boot. Such is the poetry of life.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-0 ... eing-idiot
leaking 5g data is all the future you will be allowed soon enough
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Liberals here in the states are simply insane not securing.
We warned you what's coming. You liberals will die like the may hatch.
DEA Report Shows Infiltration of Mexican Drug Cartels in Sanctuary Cities.
As for the poor Girl shot on the Pier we already suspected they have already lost there mind.
As we noted the left coast and right coast family are seeking a place from the Liberal insanity.
As I conveyed clearly before this is not about color or race. It is about useful and cheerful idiots.
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Liberals here in the states are simply insane not securing.
We warned you what's coming. You liberals will die like the may hatch.
DEA Report Shows Infiltration of Mexican Drug Cartels in Sanctuary Cities.
As for the poor Girl shot on the Pier we already suspected they have already lost there mind.
As we noted the left coast and right coast family are seeking a place from the Liberal insanity.
As I conveyed clearly before this is not about color or race. It is about useful and cheerful idiots.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Kathryn+Steinle&t=hg&ia=news
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Baudrillard was absolutely correct. “Information devours its own content. It devours communication and the social…. Rather than creating communication, it exhausts itself in the act of staging communication. Rather than producing meaning, it exhausts itself in the staging of meaning.” In the age of advanced ‘communications’ meaning evacuates to be replaced by a simulation of reality directed by whomever is pulling the strings. And since everyone’s socialized identity is entirely contingent upon their ability to stay abreast of the latest vehicles of communication, the twitterings, the ’social networks’ etc, the absorption of meaning by content is in direct proportion to one’s media hipness – and that hipness in turn in directly inverse ratio to actual lived reality – one is aware, exclusively, of their awareness, which is content provider and information fused together into the perfect simulation of meaning – aka meaninglessness. “The real abolished.”
peak propaganda is upon us
now we sort the alleged rational actors
So its Nazi Bible thumper with a twist of number five as sidetrack the opponent with name calling and ridicule. This is also known as the primary attack the messenger ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach. Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as “kooks”, “right-wing”, “liberal”, “left-wing”, “terrorists”, “conspiracy buffs”, “radicals”, “militia”, “racists”, “religious fanatics”, “sexual deviates”, and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same labeling issues.
Way back in the forums we notes this also as It is also known that the Barzani clique which controls that statelet is a dependent of Ankara, which acts as a conduit for the transfer of the stolen Iraqi gas oil which Erbil is selling to Tel Aviv via the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
From there it was the walking in circles to deplete one commodity as in others.
peak propaganda is upon us
now we sort the alleged rational actors
So its Nazi Bible thumper with a twist of number five as sidetrack the opponent with name calling and ridicule. This is also known as the primary attack the messenger ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach. Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as “kooks”, “right-wing”, “liberal”, “left-wing”, “terrorists”, “conspiracy buffs”, “radicals”, “militia”, “racists”, “religious fanatics”, “sexual deviates”, and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same labeling issues.
Way back in the forums we notes this also as It is also known that the Barzani clique which controls that statelet is a dependent of Ankara, which acts as a conduit for the transfer of the stolen Iraqi gas oil which Erbil is selling to Tel Aviv via the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
From there it was the walking in circles to deplete one commodity as in others.
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Piece of paper not filled out and thoughts as in not caring being lost in the sign of the times while they walk in circles as the people watch
in sublime disbelieve of the fourth step.
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The top four floors owned by Sandman.
Rumors that the Vegas attack was actually a bungled assassination attempt on Prince Salman by Taleel himself. They claim that Paddock was actually a gun runner (makes sense as you CAN NOT beat Vegas on any consistent timescale, rather he was just using Vegas casinos to launder money). Apparently his room was right beneath Salman's, but when they attempted the assassination, they found the Prince was gone to another casino to play cards, and that the FBI was apparently already on the scene, knowing that there was a plot, but not necessarily knowing that it was an assassination attempt on Salman. Apparently they were cut off from leaving, and decided to fake a terror attack in order to create the chaos needed to escape. Similar with the attempt to blow up the fuel tanks at the airport. Supposedly the FBI covered up Saudi involvement because if this had come out, the public would likely have clamored for war with Saudi. Instead, they have the man responsible, and likely the whole cabal rounded up. tm
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11. Establish and rely upon fall-back positions. Using a minor matter or element of the facts, take the ‘high road’ and ‘confess’ with candor that some innocent mistake, in hindsight, was made — but that opponents have seized on the opportunity to blow it all out of proportion and imply greater criminalities which, ‘just isn’t so.’ Others can reinforce this on your behalf, later, and even publicly ‘call for an end to the nonsense’ because you have already ‘done the right thing.’ Done properly, this can garner sympathy and respect for ‘coming clean’ and ‘owning up’ to your mistakes without addressing more serious issues.
12. Enigmas have no solution. Drawing upon the overall umbrella of events surrounding the crime and the multitude of players and events, paint the entire affair as too complex to solve. This causes those otherwise following the matter to begin to lose interest more quickly without having to address the actual issues.
Hillary’s e-mail server and the FBI/DOJ cover-up have caused a lot of damage, but there’s another “damage” nobody has even mentioned, yet…
In the Tradecraft, countries used to spend years trying to create fool-proof “legends” for their spies.
Remember the Russian chick, Anna Chapman, who was arrested in New York a few years back and sent back to Russia?
She was barely 19 when she left Russia for London. Soon, she got married, changed her last name, became the UK citizen, worked for Barclay’s, and in 2009 moved to New York.
Less than a year later, before even starting the actual spying, she was betrayed by a Russian “Aldrich Ames”.
Nowadays, everything is way simpler – no one cares about the “legend” anymore and here’s an example…
A Muslim family with a 2-year-old girl moves from the US to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The father is a teacher/mullah at the local madrassa – the only form of the Wahhabi Sunni radical education allowed in Saudi Arabia.
By the way, all decapitations by ISIS and Saudi Arabia, under the Wahhabi Sharia Law, are just “mandatory sentencing”, but I digress…
The Girl grows up, goes back to the States, drops her burka, and goes to college (George Washington University in DC, one of the most expensive colleges in the US). She doesn’t qualify for Student Aid and her father-mullah doesn’t make enough money in SA to pay for it, but “someone” keeps paying all those bills, in cash!
Soon, with the helping hand of Bandar “28-pages” Bush, she goes interning at the White House and, soon after, is assigned to Hillary as an aide. That girl’s name, yeah – you’ve guessed it, is Huma Bin Laden… I mean… Abedin.
Huma’s family still lives in Jeddah, SA – the same city the San Bernardino’s burka-wearing-female-shooter came from.
Huma is a Saudi spy with full access to all of our Top Secrets, but no one seems to care!
We, as a country, have been whipped by the Saudis for a very long time. Nobody in the government, left or right, dares to say anything about Saudi Arabia. It took more than 3 presidential terms to just publish the freaking 28 pages, for goat’s sake!
Even if there wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute Huma for spying, her being THAT close to the Clinton’s and still having her family living in Saudi Arabia makes her utterly COMPROMISED! I think?
Looney
But they are our Morons
In the aftermath of the fallout from the DNC server hack, the Democrats have been scrambling how to redirect public anger (especially among Bernie Sanders supporters) from the revelations that not only did the Democratic party try everything in its power to sabotage Bernie Sanders presidential bid, but also colluded with various "impartial" media outlets as well as breach fundraising rules in the process.
And, as of this morning, it appears that the solution they have decided upon is not to explain or even justify the scandalous actions, but to simply blame Russia for the hack.
Moments ago Hillary's campaign manager, Robby Mook, appeared on CNN and as David Axelrod pointed out, suggested that Russians are behind the DNC hacking.
Wow, @HillaryClinton manager Mook goes full bore on @realDonaldTrump-Russia tie on @CNNSotu. Suggests Russians behind DNC hacking.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 24, 2016
This is specifically what he said (highlights ours):
"What is disturbing to us is that experts are telling us that Russians broke into the DNC, stole these emails and other experts are now saying that the Russians are now releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump. I don't think it's coincidental that these emails were released on the eve of our convention here and that's disturbing."
The clip in question:
Clinton campaign manager on DNC leak: Experts say "Russians are releasing these emails" to help Trump #CNNSOTU https://t.co/GwJhloosPs
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 24, 2016
Ah yes, the old "Russians are helping Donald Trump" strawman, as confirmed by "experts." The same Donald Trump who the media lambasted in November of last year that he had never actually met Vladimir Putin during a 60 Minutes episode, as he had previously claimed.
Oddly, Mook found nothing "disturbing" about the revelations that Hillary was the DNC's chosen candidate from the start, or the allegations that there was unethical collusion with the media, or that the DNC may have broken fundraising rules to boost Hillary's campaign.
Nothing disturbing about that. What is far more disturbing is that "the Russians" hacked the DNC's server. Perhaps by that logic it is also disturbing that "the Russians" also hacked Hillary's own email server. Of course, they would never be able to hack a personal, home server with no outside protection; but instead it was child's play to penetrate the official, firewalled server of the entire Democratic organization.
Except... there is a problem with this "disturbing", if very amusing, tangent.
As The Hill reported, it wasn't some mysterious, Kremlin-based hacker/operator that provided the emails to Wikileaks. It was the Romanian hacker Guccifer 2.0 (not to be confused with the original Romanian hacker Guccifer, aka Marcel Lazar, who is currently in US custody and whose email revelations over a year ago unleashed the scandal involving Hillary's email server in the first place), well-known for previously leaked hundreds of internal DNC memos on his own website.
It is the same Guccifer 2.0 who, following allegations that he was working for Russia, conducted the following interview with Motherboard where he said the following:
Motherboard: So, first of all, what can you tell me about yourself? Who are you?
Guccifer 2.0: i'm a hacker, manager, philosopher, women lover. I also like Gucci! I bring the light to people. I'm a freedom fighter! So u can choose what u like!
And where are you from?
From Romania.
Do you work with Russia or the Russian government?
No because I don't like Russians and their foreign policy. I hate being attributed to Russia.
Why?
I've already told! Also I made a big deal, why you glorify them?
Tell me about the DNC hack. How did you get in?
I hacked that server through the NGP VAN soft, if u understand what I'm talking about.
So that was your entry point, what happened next?
I used 0-day exploit of NGP VAN soft then I installed shell-code into the DNC server. it allowed me to intrude into DNC network. They have Windows-based domain architecture. then I installed my Trojans on several PCs. I had to go from one PC to another every week so CrowdStrike couldn't catch me for a long time. I know that they have cool intrusion detection system. But my heuristic algorithms are better.
When did you first hack them?
Last summer.
And when did you get kicked out?
June 12, when they rebooted their system.
And why did you hack the DNC in the first place?
DNC isn't my first deal.
Who else have you hacked?
Follow my blog and u'll know! I can't tell u now about all my deals. My safety depends on it.
OK, I understand. But why did u target DNC? why are you interested in them?
Lazar began this deal and I follow him! I think we must fight for freedom of minds, fight for the world without Illuminati
Lazar?
Marcel Laz?r [The original Gufficer]
The interview then continued in Romanian to prove that the alleged hacker indeed spoke the language.
Needless to say, it is a stretch to attribute the actions of a lone, copycat hacker, who "hates" being attributed to Russia and who doesn't like "Russians and their foreign policy."
As for Trump being a secret plant for the KGB, one can make a far more "disturbing" assertion that it is Clinton, not Trump, who is in the Russians' pocket. As the WSJ recalled in late 2015, it was Clinton, not Trump, that was paid $500,000 to make Russian problems go away:
The Russian government was opposed to sanctions. At the time, the Obama administration was attempting to reset relations with Russia. The State Department rebuffed the request from Congress. “We…do not support such a measure at this time,” a department official wrote to one senator.
A few weeks later, Bill Clinton participated in a question-and-answer session at a Renaissance Capital investors conference. He was paid $500,000. After the appearance, Mr. Clinton received a personal thank-you call from Vladimir Putin, then the Russian prime minister, the government news agency TASS reported.
Renaissance Capital is one of Russia's largest investment banks.
We wonder if the press (at least those who do not need DNC pre-clearance what to write about as "per the agreement") will inquire about the factual transcript of what Bill Clinton said, that he got a "personal thank you" from Putin in 2010? We doubt it - far more likely is that instead of focusing on the real implications of the DNC hacking scandal, namely the corruption and collusion revealed inside the Democratic party, a far more important "story" will be what is emerging as a "vast left-wing conspiracy", namely how Putin will annex the US if and when Trump, who "experts" will soon elevate to status of KGB spy to spike the narrative, becomes president.
Because that is what - according to experts - is what is truly "disturbing"
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red diapers:
Several times I’ve written for The American Spectator on the person of David Axelrod, the figure most responsible for giving America two terms of Barack Obama. My first piece was a cover feature for the March 2012 print edition, titled, “David Axelrod, Lefty Lumberjack.” This lengthy profile was followed by an August 2012 piece titled, “All in the (Political) Family.” Then followed still more writings on Axelrod and friends, particularly the new material I reported in my book on Obama’s communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. David Axelrod
These writings got a lot of attention. I discussed the topic a number of times in interviews. People were shocked, and they wanted more. What other skeletons lay in David Axelrod’s political-ideological closet?
I dug into all of the declassified archival documents and old Congressional investigative reports at my disposal. But even then, what I could find was limited by what Axelrod would divulge, and because liberal “journalists” who had profiled Axelrod’s background never dared to raise any red flags from the past of our president’s chief image-maker. Like Obama himself, Obama’s molder and shaper had to be protected by liberal “journalists.”
One crucial opening amid the Axelrod roadblocks came with the death of Axelrod’s mother a little over a year ago, which led to the funeral home posting a bio that finally resolved the remarkably elusive question of the names of her parents and grandparents and other strangely absent information. I reported on this in an April 2014 piece for The American Spectator, titled, “The Quest for David Axelrod’s Leftist Roots.”
Well, now comes another open window: the publication of Axelrod’s memoirs, titled, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics, which contain some things I totally did not expect, namely in the person of Axelrod’s father. Those things prompt me now to write this article.
Before getting to the new things in Believer, here’s a brief summary of what I’ve previously reported on Axelrod’s upbringing:
David Axelrod was born and raised in New York in February 1955 before moving to Chicago in the 1970s to attend college and begin a professional path that would take him into journalism, political campaigns, and eventually the bosom of Barack Hussein Obama. In a very interesting twist of fate in Chicago, Axelrod (like Obama) had his own mentors there — namely, in the Canter family.
The Canters were old hardline pro-Soviet communists, so much so that the senior Canter, Harry Jacob Canter, was actually brought to Moscow during the height of the Stalin period to work for the Soviet government as an official translator of Lenin’s writings. Harry was active in the old Industrial Workers of the World and had been secretary of the Boston Communist Party. He was not shy about his political enthusiasm. In 1930, he ran for governor of Massachusetts on the Communist Party ticket. After that, he sojourned to the Motherland, taking his entire family to Moscow with him, including his son David, who one day would come know David Axelrod.
The Canter family returned to America (Chicago, where the Communist Party was founded in 1919) in the 1940s. In an amazing irony, the Canters actually knew and worked with Obama’s old communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. I even found the Canter names in Davis’s communist newspaper, The Chicago Star. Remarkably, one of the Canters was on the board of a group called the Progressive Publishing Co., which purchased the Star from Davis in 1948, helping grease the skids for Davis’s departure for Hawaii, where he would eventually meet a young Obama.
(For the record, as I’ve noted separately, Davis — again, Obama’s mentor — also knew and worked with Valerie Jarrett’s grandfather and father-in-law in Communist Party/left-wing circles in Chicago in the 1940s.)
The Canter family member who knew David Axelrod best was David Canter. He and another old communist maneuverer from Chicago named Don Rose would mentor David Axelrod and help him secure his first major newspaper jobs at the Hyde Park Herald and then the Chicago Tribune. Axelrod is the first to admit that those jobs launched him.
David Canter and Don Rose did lots of far-left work throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, associating with all sorts of radical organizations and suspected communist front groups. Rose was so important to Axelrod that even liberal journalists who have profiled Axelrod cannot and do not ignore noting that Rose was a mentor, minus (of course) any inconvenient details about communism.
In short, the Canters and Don Rose were instrumental influences outside of David Axelrod’s family. As for Axelrod’s family, the political-ideological story centers around his mother, Myril, and his father, Joseph.
Politically and ideologically speaking, there has always been more information available on Axelrod’s mother than his father. Myril in the 1940s worked for a prominent left-wing New York daily, PM. The publication was a battleground between non-communist liberals/progressives and closet communists who masqueraded as liberals/progressives. It was heavily penetrated by Communist Party USA members literally sworn to Stalin’s Soviet Union and the Moscow line. The self-proclaimed “liberals/progressives” at PM ranged from Arthur Miller to I. F. Stone, both of whom, we now know, had been communists in the 1930s and perhaps into the 1940s. The famed Arthur Miller was at least a small “c” communist who — as shown by Congress in the 1950s — had applied to join the Communist Party. Miller (we now know) wrote for the Daily Worker and New Masses under pseudonyms. As for Stone, he had been a literal Soviet spy in the late 1930s, though he later came to reject the USSR and became a non-communist leftist of some sort.
Where were Myril’s sympathies? Though I still cannot say with absolute certainly, we did learn only after her death, in her candid obituary posted at the funeral home’s website, that she worked not only as a reporter for PM but as a personal assistant to I. F. Stone on one of his major books on Palestine.
I still don’t know how far to the left Myril stood. I have never encountered any evidence that she was a member of the Communist Party. She was clearly on the left, and no doubt to the left of a Truman-Kennedy Democrat, but how far exactly remains a mystery.
As for David Axelrod’s father, Joseph, he has been portrayed in all of the profiles of David as a lovable, happy-go-lucky psychiatrist who loved baseball, with nary a political bone in his body. I’ve always been skeptical of that, because I know that liberal “journalists” do what they can not to present damning information on the people they need to protect. Nonetheless, I could never find anything of substance on the politics of David’s father.
All of which brings me to David’s new book.
In Believer, you will not find a word from David Axelrod on the Canter family. No surprise. You will find a few words about Don Rose, who Axelrod twice refers to as his “mentor,” but you will not get even a whiff of a suggestion of Rose’s radical politics, let alone the “c” word. Rose is portrayed as a merry progressive fighting for the civil rights of minorities.
As for David’s mom, he mentions PM and even her work for I. F. Stone, but again, the “c” word appears nowhere. In fact — with one curious exception, as we’ll see below — I couldn’t find the word “communist,” let alone “Stalinist,” anywhere in the book. I learned nothing new about Myril Axelrod or her politics in David’s memoirs. David claimed that his mother “wasn’t an ideologue,” but who knows what that means.
But what really surprised me — and prompts this article — is what David divulged about his father’s political affiliation, though he attempted to do so in a light-hearted, dismissive way:
Joseph Axelrod’s family fled Russia along with other Jews during one of the periods of czarist persecution early in the 20th century. (David’s mother’s family were also Jewish immigrants from Russia.) They first landed in Montreal but ended up in the Bronx about the time that Joseph turned 12 years old (circa 1931).
Joseph enrolled in college at John Dewey’s Columbia University, always the most radical college in America, which has easily processed more members of the Communist Party, sympathizers, and even agents than any academic institution. Though David doesn’t given dates, I estimate that Joseph was at Columbia shortly after or around the time that the university turned Thomas Merton and Bella Dodd into communists, and just as one of its earlier graduates, Whittaker Chambers, was spying for the Soviet Union. This would have been around the time Elizabeth Bentley got to Columbia and turned into a communist en route to becoming a Soviet spy, and not long after Margaret Mead got there and turned hard left. Joseph studied philosophy there, where he surely would have encountered the odious Corliss Lamont, one of the worst pro-Marxist dupes of the 20th century, who was there teaching “philosophy” with Professor Dewey and their comrades.
Needless to say, David Axelrod doesn’t get into any of this. He merely says that his father “studied philosophy for a time at Columbia University.”
But then comes a striking item volunteered by David. In the next line, he writes: “In keeping with his bohemian lifestyle, when Dad registered to vote at the height of the Depression, he listed his party affiliation as ‘Communist.’”
Whoa? Really? What’s up with that?
We always had communist suspicions regarding David’s mother, but never his father. The dad was reportedly the non-political one. The mom was the big lefty. Now we’re suddenly cracking open David’s memoirs, thinking we might find information on the politics of the mom, only to learn that the old man was a Red?
This is apparently something that David felt he needed to get out in the open, and dismiss. He tells us in the next sentence, “Years later, when a friend used my dad as a reference for a promotion in the military, Dad’s youthful act of defiance came up.”
I’m sure it did. This tantalizing item must be listed on paper somewhere, apparently prompting David to feel the need to report it before someone found it someday. But David just as quickly, in the very next line, laughs it off, quoting his dad:
“They figured if I had really been a member of the Communist Party, I would have registered as a Republican, to throw everyone off the scent,” my dad told me, recounting the drama. And of course, they were right. Dad wasn’t much of a joiner, unless you count baseball teams.
There you go: back to baseball, out of the communist orbit. With that, David provides no other details. He raises the issue and then shrugs it off with a laugh — thus signaling that any conservative who dares to raise the issue will be at best a laughable buffoon and at worst (more likely, of course) an ugly, vile McCarthyite with no shame, one who vulgarly sees a red under every bed, one chasing down poor David’s father with torches.
Nonetheless, I find this eye-opening. To be sure, it’s limited in what we can take away. An emailer who read the book before I did wrote me excitably announcing that Axelrod’s memoir reveals that his father was “a member of the Communist Party.” No, the memoir does not say that. It says his father once listed “Communist” as his party affiliation but later suggested to his son that he had not been a party member.
David would thus say that we can’t say that his dad was a communist. And indeed, where’s the proof? Well, there’s maybe this hard copy, printed military reference somewhere, but David has just pulled the carpet out from under it — at least to the satisfaction of liberals, who are convinced that America is teeming with hundreds of millions of unregenerate racists and “homophobes” but no communist ever once tread this country’s soil. David’s dismissal will be more than enough for liberals’ complete satisfaction.
The reality is that confirming these things is highly elusive. Finding Communist Party registration rolls is extremely difficult. That said, some such material exists and is scattered and out there. If anyone reading this has access to Communist Party material or registration rolls from the Bronx district in the latter 1930s, take a look for a “Joseph Axelrod.”
Finally, politics aside, I would be callous not to note that David Axelrod’s words on his father in his memoir are quite moving. He offers a gripping, tragic account of his father’s suicide in the spring of 1974 while David was in Chicago. His father hung himself at his New York studio apartment. David was, of course, shocked. “There was no one I loved more,” he wrote. “I hoped he knew that.” It was a very sad end.
It certainly was. One cannot help but be touched by this.
As for the focus here in this piece — the politics — how political was the father? How ideological was he? I grudgingly accepted for a while the narrative that his father was apolitical, but how can I still accept that? I know now that Joseph Axelrod once listed himself as a registered communist. Who does that? My dad never did that. Did yours?
This tells us something — at the very least, something.
In all, we are left with David Axelrod, the man who gave us our first Red-Diaper Baby President, with an upbringing that might have a few red diapers of its own. And as I’ve said often, if you think such backgrounds are totally irrelevant, you’re lying to yourself. No, it doesn’t make Axelrod a secret member of Communist Party USA, or Barack Obama the Manchurian Candidate, but these radical-left pasts had an impact that should never be casually dismissed.
Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College, executive director of The Center for Vision & Values, and New York Times best-selling author of the book, “The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor.” His other books include “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism” and “Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.” The original article was posted at American Spectator.
TOPICS: Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: chicago; davidaxelrod; obama
I was a democrat long ago and no sane soul should be.
Tribe served as a law clerk to Mathew Tobriner on the California Supreme Court from 1966–67 and as a law clerk to Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1967–68. He joined the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor in 1968, receiving tenure in 1972. Among his law students and research assistants while on the faculty at Harvard have been President Barack Obama (a research assistant for two years), Chief Justice John Roberts (as a law student in his classes), US Senator Ted Cruz, Chief Judge and Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan (as a research assistant).
Tribe was born in Shanghai, China, the son of Paulina (née Diatlovitsky) and George Israel Tribe. His family was Jewish. His father was from Poland and his mother was born in Harbin, to immigrants from Eastern Europe. He was raised in the French Concession of Shanghai. Tribe attended Abraham Lincoln High School, San Francisco, California. He holds an A.B. in mathematics, summa cum laude from Harvard College (1962), and a J.D., magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (1966), where he was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
The next rendition of a copy of a copy of a copy is being be released upon us.
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The answer is yes to socialize the base and capitalize the one percent of the one percent so stop being dullards.
The case for reform is simple, Tribe says. Our country is dedicated to the idea that people who are accused are innocent until proven guilty and deserve a defense.....
Unless they wish to sell body parts out of the birth canal and bill the center of the spectrum called the taxpayers
and commoditize lymphocytes and research tissue from slaughter.
His peers understand clearly money is another god to his bent knee he serves and they forward that Prof. Tribe forfeited any claim he might have had to be a constitutional authority, pre-eminent or otherwise. He is now no more than Mr. Maxine Waters, Professor of Political Expediency.
As we are the democrat red diaper Arabian clean up project as the rus cult meme wears thin and out.
Artemidorus consigns his note to the bottom.
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in sublime disbelieve of the fourth step.
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Rumors that the Vegas attack was actually a bungled assassination attempt on Prince Salman by Taleel himself. They claim that Paddock was actually a gun runner (makes sense as you CAN NOT beat Vegas on any consistent timescale, rather he was just using Vegas casinos to launder money). Apparently his room was right beneath Salman's, but when they attempted the assassination, they found the Prince was gone to another casino to play cards, and that the FBI was apparently already on the scene, knowing that there was a plot, but not necessarily knowing that it was an assassination attempt on Salman. Apparently they were cut off from leaving, and decided to fake a terror attack in order to create the chaos needed to escape. Similar with the attempt to blow up the fuel tanks at the airport. Supposedly the FBI covered up Saudi involvement because if this had come out, the public would likely have clamored for war with Saudi. Instead, they have the man responsible, and likely the whole cabal rounded up. tm
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11. Establish and rely upon fall-back positions. Using a minor matter or element of the facts, take the ‘high road’ and ‘confess’ with candor that some innocent mistake, in hindsight, was made — but that opponents have seized on the opportunity to blow it all out of proportion and imply greater criminalities which, ‘just isn’t so.’ Others can reinforce this on your behalf, later, and even publicly ‘call for an end to the nonsense’ because you have already ‘done the right thing.’ Done properly, this can garner sympathy and respect for ‘coming clean’ and ‘owning up’ to your mistakes without addressing more serious issues.
12. Enigmas have no solution. Drawing upon the overall umbrella of events surrounding the crime and the multitude of players and events, paint the entire affair as too complex to solve. This causes those otherwise following the matter to begin to lose interest more quickly without having to address the actual issues.
Hillary’s e-mail server and the FBI/DOJ cover-up have caused a lot of damage, but there’s another “damage” nobody has even mentioned, yet…
In the Tradecraft, countries used to spend years trying to create fool-proof “legends” for their spies.
Remember the Russian chick, Anna Chapman, who was arrested in New York a few years back and sent back to Russia?
She was barely 19 when she left Russia for London. Soon, she got married, changed her last name, became the UK citizen, worked for Barclay’s, and in 2009 moved to New York.
Less than a year later, before even starting the actual spying, she was betrayed by a Russian “Aldrich Ames”.
Nowadays, everything is way simpler – no one cares about the “legend” anymore and here’s an example…
A Muslim family with a 2-year-old girl moves from the US to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The father is a teacher/mullah at the local madrassa – the only form of the Wahhabi Sunni radical education allowed in Saudi Arabia.
By the way, all decapitations by ISIS and Saudi Arabia, under the Wahhabi Sharia Law, are just “mandatory sentencing”, but I digress…
The Girl grows up, goes back to the States, drops her burka, and goes to college (George Washington University in DC, one of the most expensive colleges in the US). She doesn’t qualify for Student Aid and her father-mullah doesn’t make enough money in SA to pay for it, but “someone” keeps paying all those bills, in cash!
Soon, with the helping hand of Bandar “28-pages” Bush, she goes interning at the White House and, soon after, is assigned to Hillary as an aide. That girl’s name, yeah – you’ve guessed it, is Huma Bin Laden… I mean… Abedin.
Huma’s family still lives in Jeddah, SA – the same city the San Bernardino’s burka-wearing-female-shooter came from.
Huma is a Saudi spy with full access to all of our Top Secrets, but no one seems to care!
We, as a country, have been whipped by the Saudis for a very long time. Nobody in the government, left or right, dares to say anything about Saudi Arabia. It took more than 3 presidential terms to just publish the freaking 28 pages, for goat’s sake!
Even if there wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute Huma for spying, her being THAT close to the Clinton’s and still having her family living in Saudi Arabia makes her utterly COMPROMISED! I think?
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In the aftermath of the fallout from the DNC server hack, the Democrats have been scrambling how to redirect public anger (especially among Bernie Sanders supporters) from the revelations that not only did the Democratic party try everything in its power to sabotage Bernie Sanders presidential bid, but also colluded with various "impartial" media outlets as well as breach fundraising rules in the process.
And, as of this morning, it appears that the solution they have decided upon is not to explain or even justify the scandalous actions, but to simply blame Russia for the hack.
Moments ago Hillary's campaign manager, Robby Mook, appeared on CNN and as David Axelrod pointed out, suggested that Russians are behind the DNC hacking.
Wow, @HillaryClinton manager Mook goes full bore on @realDonaldTrump-Russia tie on @CNNSotu. Suggests Russians behind DNC hacking.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 24, 2016
This is specifically what he said (highlights ours):
"What is disturbing to us is that experts are telling us that Russians broke into the DNC, stole these emails and other experts are now saying that the Russians are now releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump. I don't think it's coincidental that these emails were released on the eve of our convention here and that's disturbing."
The clip in question:
Clinton campaign manager on DNC leak: Experts say "Russians are releasing these emails" to help Trump #CNNSOTU https://t.co/GwJhloosPs
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 24, 2016
Ah yes, the old "Russians are helping Donald Trump" strawman, as confirmed by "experts." The same Donald Trump who the media lambasted in November of last year that he had never actually met Vladimir Putin during a 60 Minutes episode, as he had previously claimed.
Oddly, Mook found nothing "disturbing" about the revelations that Hillary was the DNC's chosen candidate from the start, or the allegations that there was unethical collusion with the media, or that the DNC may have broken fundraising rules to boost Hillary's campaign.
Nothing disturbing about that. What is far more disturbing is that "the Russians" hacked the DNC's server. Perhaps by that logic it is also disturbing that "the Russians" also hacked Hillary's own email server. Of course, they would never be able to hack a personal, home server with no outside protection; but instead it was child's play to penetrate the official, firewalled server of the entire Democratic organization.
Except... there is a problem with this "disturbing", if very amusing, tangent.
As The Hill reported, it wasn't some mysterious, Kremlin-based hacker/operator that provided the emails to Wikileaks. It was the Romanian hacker Guccifer 2.0 (not to be confused with the original Romanian hacker Guccifer, aka Marcel Lazar, who is currently in US custody and whose email revelations over a year ago unleashed the scandal involving Hillary's email server in the first place), well-known for previously leaked hundreds of internal DNC memos on his own website.
It is the same Guccifer 2.0 who, following allegations that he was working for Russia, conducted the following interview with Motherboard where he said the following:
Motherboard: So, first of all, what can you tell me about yourself? Who are you?
Guccifer 2.0: i'm a hacker, manager, philosopher, women lover. I also like Gucci! I bring the light to people. I'm a freedom fighter! So u can choose what u like!
And where are you from?
From Romania.
Do you work with Russia or the Russian government?
No because I don't like Russians and their foreign policy. I hate being attributed to Russia.
Why?
I've already told! Also I made a big deal, why you glorify them?
Tell me about the DNC hack. How did you get in?
I hacked that server through the NGP VAN soft, if u understand what I'm talking about.
So that was your entry point, what happened next?
I used 0-day exploit of NGP VAN soft then I installed shell-code into the DNC server. it allowed me to intrude into DNC network. They have Windows-based domain architecture. then I installed my Trojans on several PCs. I had to go from one PC to another every week so CrowdStrike couldn't catch me for a long time. I know that they have cool intrusion detection system. But my heuristic algorithms are better.
When did you first hack them?
Last summer.
And when did you get kicked out?
June 12, when they rebooted their system.
And why did you hack the DNC in the first place?
DNC isn't my first deal.
Who else have you hacked?
Follow my blog and u'll know! I can't tell u now about all my deals. My safety depends on it.
OK, I understand. But why did u target DNC? why are you interested in them?
Lazar began this deal and I follow him! I think we must fight for freedom of minds, fight for the world without Illuminati
Lazar?
Marcel Laz?r [The original Gufficer]
The interview then continued in Romanian to prove that the alleged hacker indeed spoke the language.
Needless to say, it is a stretch to attribute the actions of a lone, copycat hacker, who "hates" being attributed to Russia and who doesn't like "Russians and their foreign policy."
As for Trump being a secret plant for the KGB, one can make a far more "disturbing" assertion that it is Clinton, not Trump, who is in the Russians' pocket. As the WSJ recalled in late 2015, it was Clinton, not Trump, that was paid $500,000 to make Russian problems go away:
The Russian government was opposed to sanctions. At the time, the Obama administration was attempting to reset relations with Russia. The State Department rebuffed the request from Congress. “We…do not support such a measure at this time,” a department official wrote to one senator.
A few weeks later, Bill Clinton participated in a question-and-answer session at a Renaissance Capital investors conference. He was paid $500,000. After the appearance, Mr. Clinton received a personal thank-you call from Vladimir Putin, then the Russian prime minister, the government news agency TASS reported.
Renaissance Capital is one of Russia's largest investment banks.
We wonder if the press (at least those who do not need DNC pre-clearance what to write about as "per the agreement") will inquire about the factual transcript of what Bill Clinton said, that he got a "personal thank you" from Putin in 2010? We doubt it - far more likely is that instead of focusing on the real implications of the DNC hacking scandal, namely the corruption and collusion revealed inside the Democratic party, a far more important "story" will be what is emerging as a "vast left-wing conspiracy", namely how Putin will annex the US if and when Trump, who "experts" will soon elevate to status of KGB spy to spike the narrative, becomes president.
Because that is what - according to experts - is what is truly "disturbing"
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Several times I’ve written for The American Spectator on the person of David Axelrod, the figure most responsible for giving America two terms of Barack Obama. My first piece was a cover feature for the March 2012 print edition, titled, “David Axelrod, Lefty Lumberjack.” This lengthy profile was followed by an August 2012 piece titled, “All in the (Political) Family.” Then followed still more writings on Axelrod and friends, particularly the new material I reported in my book on Obama’s communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. David Axelrod
These writings got a lot of attention. I discussed the topic a number of times in interviews. People were shocked, and they wanted more. What other skeletons lay in David Axelrod’s political-ideological closet?
I dug into all of the declassified archival documents and old Congressional investigative reports at my disposal. But even then, what I could find was limited by what Axelrod would divulge, and because liberal “journalists” who had profiled Axelrod’s background never dared to raise any red flags from the past of our president’s chief image-maker. Like Obama himself, Obama’s molder and shaper had to be protected by liberal “journalists.”
One crucial opening amid the Axelrod roadblocks came with the death of Axelrod’s mother a little over a year ago, which led to the funeral home posting a bio that finally resolved the remarkably elusive question of the names of her parents and grandparents and other strangely absent information. I reported on this in an April 2014 piece for The American Spectator, titled, “The Quest for David Axelrod’s Leftist Roots.”
Well, now comes another open window: the publication of Axelrod’s memoirs, titled, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics, which contain some things I totally did not expect, namely in the person of Axelrod’s father. Those things prompt me now to write this article.
Before getting to the new things in Believer, here’s a brief summary of what I’ve previously reported on Axelrod’s upbringing:
David Axelrod was born and raised in New York in February 1955 before moving to Chicago in the 1970s to attend college and begin a professional path that would take him into journalism, political campaigns, and eventually the bosom of Barack Hussein Obama. In a very interesting twist of fate in Chicago, Axelrod (like Obama) had his own mentors there — namely, in the Canter family.
The Canters were old hardline pro-Soviet communists, so much so that the senior Canter, Harry Jacob Canter, was actually brought to Moscow during the height of the Stalin period to work for the Soviet government as an official translator of Lenin’s writings. Harry was active in the old Industrial Workers of the World and had been secretary of the Boston Communist Party. He was not shy about his political enthusiasm. In 1930, he ran for governor of Massachusetts on the Communist Party ticket. After that, he sojourned to the Motherland, taking his entire family to Moscow with him, including his son David, who one day would come know David Axelrod.
The Canter family returned to America (Chicago, where the Communist Party was founded in 1919) in the 1940s. In an amazing irony, the Canters actually knew and worked with Obama’s old communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. I even found the Canter names in Davis’s communist newspaper, The Chicago Star. Remarkably, one of the Canters was on the board of a group called the Progressive Publishing Co., which purchased the Star from Davis in 1948, helping grease the skids for Davis’s departure for Hawaii, where he would eventually meet a young Obama.
(For the record, as I’ve noted separately, Davis — again, Obama’s mentor — also knew and worked with Valerie Jarrett’s grandfather and father-in-law in Communist Party/left-wing circles in Chicago in the 1940s.)
The Canter family member who knew David Axelrod best was David Canter. He and another old communist maneuverer from Chicago named Don Rose would mentor David Axelrod and help him secure his first major newspaper jobs at the Hyde Park Herald and then the Chicago Tribune. Axelrod is the first to admit that those jobs launched him.
David Canter and Don Rose did lots of far-left work throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s, associating with all sorts of radical organizations and suspected communist front groups. Rose was so important to Axelrod that even liberal journalists who have profiled Axelrod cannot and do not ignore noting that Rose was a mentor, minus (of course) any inconvenient details about communism.
In short, the Canters and Don Rose were instrumental influences outside of David Axelrod’s family. As for Axelrod’s family, the political-ideological story centers around his mother, Myril, and his father, Joseph.
Politically and ideologically speaking, there has always been more information available on Axelrod’s mother than his father. Myril in the 1940s worked for a prominent left-wing New York daily, PM. The publication was a battleground between non-communist liberals/progressives and closet communists who masqueraded as liberals/progressives. It was heavily penetrated by Communist Party USA members literally sworn to Stalin’s Soviet Union and the Moscow line. The self-proclaimed “liberals/progressives” at PM ranged from Arthur Miller to I. F. Stone, both of whom, we now know, had been communists in the 1930s and perhaps into the 1940s. The famed Arthur Miller was at least a small “c” communist who — as shown by Congress in the 1950s — had applied to join the Communist Party. Miller (we now know) wrote for the Daily Worker and New Masses under pseudonyms. As for Stone, he had been a literal Soviet spy in the late 1930s, though he later came to reject the USSR and became a non-communist leftist of some sort.
Where were Myril’s sympathies? Though I still cannot say with absolute certainly, we did learn only after her death, in her candid obituary posted at the funeral home’s website, that she worked not only as a reporter for PM but as a personal assistant to I. F. Stone on one of his major books on Palestine.
I still don’t know how far to the left Myril stood. I have never encountered any evidence that she was a member of the Communist Party. She was clearly on the left, and no doubt to the left of a Truman-Kennedy Democrat, but how far exactly remains a mystery.
As for David Axelrod’s father, Joseph, he has been portrayed in all of the profiles of David as a lovable, happy-go-lucky psychiatrist who loved baseball, with nary a political bone in his body. I’ve always been skeptical of that, because I know that liberal “journalists” do what they can not to present damning information on the people they need to protect. Nonetheless, I could never find anything of substance on the politics of David’s father.
All of which brings me to David’s new book.
In Believer, you will not find a word from David Axelrod on the Canter family. No surprise. You will find a few words about Don Rose, who Axelrod twice refers to as his “mentor,” but you will not get even a whiff of a suggestion of Rose’s radical politics, let alone the “c” word. Rose is portrayed as a merry progressive fighting for the civil rights of minorities.
As for David’s mom, he mentions PM and even her work for I. F. Stone, but again, the “c” word appears nowhere. In fact — with one curious exception, as we’ll see below — I couldn’t find the word “communist,” let alone “Stalinist,” anywhere in the book. I learned nothing new about Myril Axelrod or her politics in David’s memoirs. David claimed that his mother “wasn’t an ideologue,” but who knows what that means.
But what really surprised me — and prompts this article — is what David divulged about his father’s political affiliation, though he attempted to do so in a light-hearted, dismissive way:
Joseph Axelrod’s family fled Russia along with other Jews during one of the periods of czarist persecution early in the 20th century. (David’s mother’s family were also Jewish immigrants from Russia.) They first landed in Montreal but ended up in the Bronx about the time that Joseph turned 12 years old (circa 1931).
Joseph enrolled in college at John Dewey’s Columbia University, always the most radical college in America, which has easily processed more members of the Communist Party, sympathizers, and even agents than any academic institution. Though David doesn’t given dates, I estimate that Joseph was at Columbia shortly after or around the time that the university turned Thomas Merton and Bella Dodd into communists, and just as one of its earlier graduates, Whittaker Chambers, was spying for the Soviet Union. This would have been around the time Elizabeth Bentley got to Columbia and turned into a communist en route to becoming a Soviet spy, and not long after Margaret Mead got there and turned hard left. Joseph studied philosophy there, where he surely would have encountered the odious Corliss Lamont, one of the worst pro-Marxist dupes of the 20th century, who was there teaching “philosophy” with Professor Dewey and their comrades.
Needless to say, David Axelrod doesn’t get into any of this. He merely says that his father “studied philosophy for a time at Columbia University.”
But then comes a striking item volunteered by David. In the next line, he writes: “In keeping with his bohemian lifestyle, when Dad registered to vote at the height of the Depression, he listed his party affiliation as ‘Communist.’”
Whoa? Really? What’s up with that?
We always had communist suspicions regarding David’s mother, but never his father. The dad was reportedly the non-political one. The mom was the big lefty. Now we’re suddenly cracking open David’s memoirs, thinking we might find information on the politics of the mom, only to learn that the old man was a Red?
This is apparently something that David felt he needed to get out in the open, and dismiss. He tells us in the next sentence, “Years later, when a friend used my dad as a reference for a promotion in the military, Dad’s youthful act of defiance came up.”
I’m sure it did. This tantalizing item must be listed on paper somewhere, apparently prompting David to feel the need to report it before someone found it someday. But David just as quickly, in the very next line, laughs it off, quoting his dad:
“They figured if I had really been a member of the Communist Party, I would have registered as a Republican, to throw everyone off the scent,” my dad told me, recounting the drama. And of course, they were right. Dad wasn’t much of a joiner, unless you count baseball teams.
There you go: back to baseball, out of the communist orbit. With that, David provides no other details. He raises the issue and then shrugs it off with a laugh — thus signaling that any conservative who dares to raise the issue will be at best a laughable buffoon and at worst (more likely, of course) an ugly, vile McCarthyite with no shame, one who vulgarly sees a red under every bed, one chasing down poor David’s father with torches.
Nonetheless, I find this eye-opening. To be sure, it’s limited in what we can take away. An emailer who read the book before I did wrote me excitably announcing that Axelrod’s memoir reveals that his father was “a member of the Communist Party.” No, the memoir does not say that. It says his father once listed “Communist” as his party affiliation but later suggested to his son that he had not been a party member.
David would thus say that we can’t say that his dad was a communist. And indeed, where’s the proof? Well, there’s maybe this hard copy, printed military reference somewhere, but David has just pulled the carpet out from under it — at least to the satisfaction of liberals, who are convinced that America is teeming with hundreds of millions of unregenerate racists and “homophobes” but no communist ever once tread this country’s soil. David’s dismissal will be more than enough for liberals’ complete satisfaction.
The reality is that confirming these things is highly elusive. Finding Communist Party registration rolls is extremely difficult. That said, some such material exists and is scattered and out there. If anyone reading this has access to Communist Party material or registration rolls from the Bronx district in the latter 1930s, take a look for a “Joseph Axelrod.”
Finally, politics aside, I would be callous not to note that David Axelrod’s words on his father in his memoir are quite moving. He offers a gripping, tragic account of his father’s suicide in the spring of 1974 while David was in Chicago. His father hung himself at his New York studio apartment. David was, of course, shocked. “There was no one I loved more,” he wrote. “I hoped he knew that.” It was a very sad end.
It certainly was. One cannot help but be touched by this.
As for the focus here in this piece — the politics — how political was the father? How ideological was he? I grudgingly accepted for a while the narrative that his father was apolitical, but how can I still accept that? I know now that Joseph Axelrod once listed himself as a registered communist. Who does that? My dad never did that. Did yours?
This tells us something — at the very least, something.
In all, we are left with David Axelrod, the man who gave us our first Red-Diaper Baby President, with an upbringing that might have a few red diapers of its own. And as I’ve said often, if you think such backgrounds are totally irrelevant, you’re lying to yourself. No, it doesn’t make Axelrod a secret member of Communist Party USA, or Barack Obama the Manchurian Candidate, but these radical-left pasts had an impact that should never be casually dismissed.
Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College, executive director of The Center for Vision & Values, and New York Times best-selling author of the book, “The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor.” His other books include “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism” and “Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.” The original article was posted at American Spectator.
TOPICS: Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: chicago; davidaxelrod; obama
I was a democrat long ago and no sane soul should be.
Tribe served as a law clerk to Mathew Tobriner on the California Supreme Court from 1966–67 and as a law clerk to Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1967–68. He joined the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor in 1968, receiving tenure in 1972. Among his law students and research assistants while on the faculty at Harvard have been President Barack Obama (a research assistant for two years), Chief Justice John Roberts (as a law student in his classes), US Senator Ted Cruz, Chief Judge and Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan (as a research assistant).
Tribe was born in Shanghai, China, the son of Paulina (née Diatlovitsky) and George Israel Tribe. His family was Jewish. His father was from Poland and his mother was born in Harbin, to immigrants from Eastern Europe. He was raised in the French Concession of Shanghai. Tribe attended Abraham Lincoln High School, San Francisco, California. He holds an A.B. in mathematics, summa cum laude from Harvard College (1962), and a J.D., magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (1966), where he was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
The next rendition of a copy of a copy of a copy is being be released upon us.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama ... le/2631266
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des ... e-sell-out
The answer is yes to socialize the base and capitalize the one percent of the one percent so stop being dullards.
The case for reform is simple, Tribe says. Our country is dedicated to the idea that people who are accused are innocent until proven guilty and deserve a defense.....
Unless they wish to sell body parts out of the birth canal and bill the center of the spectrum called the taxpayers
and commoditize lymphocytes and research tissue from slaughter.
His peers understand clearly money is another god to his bent knee he serves and they forward that Prof. Tribe forfeited any claim he might have had to be a constitutional authority, pre-eminent or otherwise. He is now no more than Mr. Maxine Waters, Professor of Political Expediency.
As we are the democrat red diaper Arabian clean up project as the rus cult meme wears thin and out.
Artemidorus consigns his note to the bottom.
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Re: Financial topics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-WudU2TcTg
Rice
current assessment
executive policy grade A
senate relationship given fractious reality grade C
communication to garner 10 million more votes grade D
Shapiro conveys clearly the point resonate a normal world drinking information
from a fire hose applies more than we wish to merit with the actual digital disease
at hand as noted.
His point to convey pounding villains into a box makes him look as one to the younger demographics.
The main facets was pointed out as pro truth conveyance.
I consider the point the younger set is looking for a steady hand at the wheel
as we convey the port and starboard with muted apprehension to risk management in ethics.
We know the current ideological undercurrent from actual affairs.
The Federalist No. 10 – The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection
Daily Advertiser – November 22, 1787 – James Madison
When one examines these two papers in which Hume and Madison summed up the eighteenth century's most profound thought on political parties, it becomes increasingly clear that the young American used the earlier work in preparing a survey on factions through the ages to introduce his own discussion of faction in America. Hume's work was admirably adapted to this purpose. It was philosophical and scientific in the best tradition of the Enlightenment. The facile domination of faction had been a commonplace in English politics for a hundred years, as Whig and Tory vociferously sought to fasten the label on each other. But the Scot, very little interested as a partisan and very much so as a social scientist, treated the subject therefore in psychological, intellectual, and socioeconomic terms. Throughout all history, he discovered, mankind has been divided into factions based either on personal loyalty to some leader or upon some "sentiment or interest" common to the group as a unit. This latter type he called a "Real" as distinguished from the "personal" faction. Finally, he subdivided the "real factions" into parties based on "interest, upon principle," or upon affection."
Hume spent well over five pages dissecting these three types; but Madison, while determined to be inclusive, had not the space to go into such minute analysis. Besides, he was more intent now on developing the cure than on describing the malady. He therefore consolidated Hume's two-page treatment of "personal" factions and his long discussion of parties based on "principle and affection" into a single sentence. The tenth Federalist reads" "A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex ad oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good." It is hard to conceive of a more perfect example of the concentration of idea and meaning than Madison achieved in this famous sentence.
"The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason." - David Hume
The seal between the ears will remain.
The word "polemos" appears at least 16 times in the New Testament, and in each case, it refers to physical conflict, not a spiritual one as Paul refers to here:
"For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places." Ephesians 6:12
When Paul speaks of the spiritual struggle, he uses the word "pale." According to Strong's Concordance, "pale" means: "wrestling"
Clearly, the Bible differentiates between our everyday spiritual struggle with the forces of darkness and literal physical conflict in the form of war.
Point is they stuff the cracks with good people who wander and will seek as it was said, and we know the condition they will linger in.
Famine.
previous context thread Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:12 am: Even if you provide accurate data you will be eaten by that tribe. Simply they are what we discussed as the proverbial fatal deceit as before. Hayek knew this as did Keynes since they only differed on the entry point to sort out needed cartels on what you may remember as the cluster nodes which keep these neo pagans today from eating each other.
Essential trade nodes reestablished. We sent out another today...
Some contend they are more grown up than others. The fatal deceit never leaves.
All known surviving descendant lineages of CT are in one of two major subclades, CF and DE. In turn, DE is divided into an Asia-distributed haplogroup D-M174 and a now predominantly Africa-distributed haplogroup E-M96, while CF is divided into an East Asian, American, and Oceanian haplogroup C-M130 and haplogroup F-M89, which dominates most non-African populations.
Rice
current assessment
executive policy grade A
senate relationship given fractious reality grade C
communication to garner 10 million more votes grade D
Shapiro conveys clearly the point resonate a normal world drinking information
from a fire hose applies more than we wish to merit with the actual digital disease
at hand as noted.
His point to convey pounding villains into a box makes him look as one to the younger demographics.
The main facets was pointed out as pro truth conveyance.
I consider the point the younger set is looking for a steady hand at the wheel
as we convey the port and starboard with muted apprehension to risk management in ethics.
We know the current ideological undercurrent from actual affairs.
The Federalist No. 10 – The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection
Daily Advertiser – November 22, 1787 – James Madison
When one examines these two papers in which Hume and Madison summed up the eighteenth century's most profound thought on political parties, it becomes increasingly clear that the young American used the earlier work in preparing a survey on factions through the ages to introduce his own discussion of faction in America. Hume's work was admirably adapted to this purpose. It was philosophical and scientific in the best tradition of the Enlightenment. The facile domination of faction had been a commonplace in English politics for a hundred years, as Whig and Tory vociferously sought to fasten the label on each other. But the Scot, very little interested as a partisan and very much so as a social scientist, treated the subject therefore in psychological, intellectual, and socioeconomic terms. Throughout all history, he discovered, mankind has been divided into factions based either on personal loyalty to some leader or upon some "sentiment or interest" common to the group as a unit. This latter type he called a "Real" as distinguished from the "personal" faction. Finally, he subdivided the "real factions" into parties based on "interest, upon principle," or upon affection."
Hume spent well over five pages dissecting these three types; but Madison, while determined to be inclusive, had not the space to go into such minute analysis. Besides, he was more intent now on developing the cure than on describing the malady. He therefore consolidated Hume's two-page treatment of "personal" factions and his long discussion of parties based on "principle and affection" into a single sentence. The tenth Federalist reads" "A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex ad oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good." It is hard to conceive of a more perfect example of the concentration of idea and meaning than Madison achieved in this famous sentence.
"The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason." - David Hume
The seal between the ears will remain.
The word "polemos" appears at least 16 times in the New Testament, and in each case, it refers to physical conflict, not a spiritual one as Paul refers to here:
"For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places." Ephesians 6:12
When Paul speaks of the spiritual struggle, he uses the word "pale." According to Strong's Concordance, "pale" means: "wrestling"
Clearly, the Bible differentiates between our everyday spiritual struggle with the forces of darkness and literal physical conflict in the form of war.
Point is they stuff the cracks with good people who wander and will seek as it was said, and we know the condition they will linger in.
Famine.
previous context thread Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:12 am: Even if you provide accurate data you will be eaten by that tribe. Simply they are what we discussed as the proverbial fatal deceit as before. Hayek knew this as did Keynes since they only differed on the entry point to sort out needed cartels on what you may remember as the cluster nodes which keep these neo pagans today from eating each other.
Essential trade nodes reestablished. We sent out another today...
Some contend they are more grown up than others. The fatal deceit never leaves.
All known surviving descendant lineages of CT are in one of two major subclades, CF and DE. In turn, DE is divided into an Asia-distributed haplogroup D-M174 and a now predominantly Africa-distributed haplogroup E-M96, while CF is divided into an East Asian, American, and Oceanian haplogroup C-M130 and haplogroup F-M89, which dominates most non-African populations.
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Re: Financial topics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQoB5Ge ... QoB5GeKhV4
Matthew 5:37 Common English Bible Let your yes mean yes, and your no mean no. Anything more than this comes from the evil one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b_7y4KmlA0
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-0 ... an-dossier
Matthew 5:37 Common English Bible Let your yes mean yes, and your no mean no. Anything more than this comes from the evil one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b_7y4KmlA0
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-0 ... an-dossier
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