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Time Magazine: Attacking Transgender Bias is the Next 'Social Movement'
Time Magazine: Attacking Transgender Bias is the Next
'Social Movement'
by Warner Todd Huston 30 May 2014,
12:04 PM PDT
Now that gay marriage seems to be a foregone conclusion in the United States, Time magazine is predicting the next "social movement" to
overtake America.
The magazine is promoting "The Transgender Tipping Point" on its June
9th cover.
As part of its cover story, the
June issue features a full-standing cover shot of Laverne Cox, the star of the
Netflix drama Orange Is the New Black. Cox is a transgendered male who
identifies as a female.
Cox celebrated the cover with a
May 29th tweet, which said, "Thanks @TIME for this lovely bday present, a
cover story 2 highlight the profound issues trans people face everyday."
In an extensive interview with
Time, Cox is said to be the newest spokesperson for the transgender community.
Her chief refrain is "genitalia isn't destiny."
"I think what they need to
understand is that not everybody who is born feels that their gender identity
is in alignment with what they’re assigned at birth, based on their
genitalia," Cox said.
He added:
If someone needs to express their
gender in a way that is different, that is OK, and they should not be denied
healthcare. They should not be bullied. They don’t deserve to be victims of
violence. … That’s what people need to understand, that it’s okay and that if
you are uncomfortable with it, then you need to look at yourself.
In the interview, Cox also seems
to think that everyone is "insecure about our gender":
They think, "Okay, if there’s
this trans person over here, then what does that make me?" We want to just
coast along in a belief system that makes us feel secure, because we are a
culture, as Brene Brown would say, that is intolerant to vulnerability. And if
we are in a position where we have to begin to question this very basic idea of
"A man has a penis and a woman has a vagina," then that’s a lot of
vulnerability.
Even as print media, and magazines
in particular, continue a slow decline in sales, Time still has a circulation
of over 3.3 million.
But many feel Time's feature of
Cox as its June cover girl is the magazine's attempt to make good with
transgender fans because Cox was left off its recent 100 Most Influential
People reader’s poll, which spawned a Twitter campaign replete with the hashtag
#WhereIsLaverneCox.
Time may very well be trying to
prevent a backlash over leaving Cox off the list after it was reported that she
received the fifth highest number of votes, despite not being officially in the
running.
But at least one gay advocate
website was pleased with the new June issue, stating that after the slight over
the 100 list, Time was offering a great apology. "It's an entire issue
dedicated to a movement she's come to be the face of. If that's not a
proverbial olive branch, than [sic] show us what is," wrote Hayden Manders.
Time magazine
Samantha
Power was a foreign policy columnist for Time magazine, a board member for the International Crisis Group, a director at the International Rescue Committee, is the United Nations U.S. ambassador, and married to Cass R. Sunstein.
Note: George Soros is a board
member for the International Crisis
Group, and was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the Brookings Institution (think tank), the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), Urban
Institute (think tank), ProPublica,
the Aspen Institute (think tank), and
the New America Foundation.
Clifford S.
Asness is a director at the International
Rescue Committee, and supported same-sex
marriage in New York.
Cass R. Sunstein
is married to Samantha Power’s, and
a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Strobe
Talbott is the president of the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and was an editor for Time magazine.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), is the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Alger
Hiss was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), and Whittaker Chambers
accused him of espionage.
Alger Hiss - New Deal (Past Research)
Friday, May 30, 2014
Whittaker Chambers
accused Alger Hiss of espionage, and
was an editor for Time magazine.
Susan
E. Tifft was a public affairs director for the Urban Institute (think tank), and a writer & editor for Time magazine.
Priscilla
Painton is an advisory board member for ProPublica, and was a deputy managing editor for Time magazine.
Walter
Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was a managing editor for Time magazine.
Fareed
Zakaria is a director at the New
America Foundation, the editor-at-large for Time magazine, and an advisory council member for the Acumen Fund.
Andrea
Soros is a director at the Acumen
Fund, and George Soros’s
daughter.
George
Soros is Andrea Soros & Robert Soros’s father, was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, and a supporter for the Center
for American Progress.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress.
Robert
Soros is George Soros’s son, and
married to Melissa Soros.
Melissa
Soros is married to Robert Soros,
and a friend of Kate Betts.
Kate
Betts is a friend of Melissa Soros,
and a contributing editor for Time
magazine.
Morton H. Halperin
was a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, and is Mark
Halperin’s father.
Mark
Halperin is Morton H. Halperin’s
son, and was a senior political analyst for Time magazine.
Friday, May 30, 2014
Alger Hiss - New Deal
Alger Hiss - New Deal
Alger Hiss.
Photo courtesy U.S. Bureau of Prisons
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Victims of Stalin's Terror-Famine, Ukraine,
1933. Source: Andrew Gregorovich, "Black Famine in Ukraine
1932-33: A Struggle for Existence," Forum: A Ukrainian Review No. 24 (1974)In 1933, Frankfurter sent Hiss a
telegram[52] strongly urging him[53] to join the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a liberal[54] Democrat.[55]
Pressman had already gotten into the
government, in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA). That New
Deal[56] agency was the brainchild of FDR's Secretary of
Agriculture (and future Vice
President) Henry Wallace, who was reportedly "most
impressed" with Soviet collective farming (and urged FDR to become a
"farm dictator"). After running for President in 1948 on the
Communist-inspired[57] Progressive Party ticket, Wallace would finally recant
his support for the Soviet Union[58] in
1952.[59]
Mother of seven children without food, California, ca. February
1936. Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress
At the peak
of Stalin's
Terror Famine (which killed some 14 million[60] people through collectivization
of agriculture), the AAA curtailed U.S. farm
production in order to drive up food prices--at a time when (according to FDR)
one in three Americans was already "ill-nourished."[61]
In response to a query about candidates for
employment at AAA, Pressman wrote, "I have talked to Alger Hiss
and [fellow IJA member][62] Nat Witt who are considering" taking posts at
AAA. Hiss would later deny under oath that he had discussed the position with
Pressman,[63] but he soon got a position as assistant general counsel to the
AAA. There he met the Communist[64] Harold Ware,[65] son of American Communist
Party founder "Mother" Bloor. Ware had recently returned from several
years in the Soviet Union, where he had been instrumental in the organization
of collective farms.[66] Ware recruited Hiss[67] into a secret Communist Party
cell within AAA[68] known as the Ware group.[69]
Other members of this cell included Hiss's
Harvard friends Collins and Pressman (who would join the Communist Party about
this time),[70] as well as Witt (who would be identified as a fellow Communist
by Pressman),[71] secret Communist John Abt[72] and Soviet spy[73] Charles
Kramer. Abt would later admit having been a member of the Ware group, [74] as
would Communist writer Hope Hale Davis (wife of Comintern agent[75] Claud
Cockburn), who would write that its meetings involved discussions of how to
"achieve promotion—a primary goal," or whether to "try to
influence policy," as well as "secret directives—for purloining official
documents," etc.[76] This influx of radicals caused AAA administrator
George Peek to resign in protest, writing:
“A plague of young lawyers settled on Washington. They all
claimed to be friends of somebody or other and mostly of Felix
Frankfurter and Jerome Frank[77]... in the legal division were
formed the plans which eventually turned the AAA from a device to aid the
farmers into a device to introduce the collectivist system of agriculture into
this country.[78] ”
Even before the Federal Bureau of
Investigation would learn of Whittaker Chambers' charges, one of Hiss's
colleagues at the AAA[79] would tip off FBI investigators that Hiss and his
circle were fellow travelers, if not Communists.[80] In February 1935, the
"radicals" were "purged" from AAA. According to New Dealer Gardner Jackson:[81]
“ Late in the day of our dismissal Wallace
sent word that he would see two of the people on the dismissal list. Jerome
Frank and a member of his legal staff, Alger Hiss, were delegated for the
interview. Wallace haltingly greeted them (and, through them, others on the
list) as "the best fighters in a good cause" he had ever worked with.
But he said that he had to fire them. ”
As it turned out, Jackson, Frank and
Pressman were indeed fired—but Hiss was not. "Alger must have known at
least a week before the purge that it was coming," said Jackson. "He undoubtedly told Pressman,
and Lee told him what to do in order to remain in the Department as his
pipeline."[82]
Frank, believing Hiss to be closely linked
to a coterie of Communist lawyers at the agency, would later refuse to appear
as a character witness for him.[83] According to reporters Ralph de Toledano
and Victor Lasky (who covered the trials for Newsweek and the New York
World-Telegram, respectively): "When Hiss's lawyers approached a
well-known jurist to ask him if he would appear as a character witness [for
Hiss]...he said tartly: 'I have no way of knowing whether or not Mr. Hiss was
ever a Communist. But as to his character—Mr. Hiss has no character.'"[84]
Collins would refuse to testify on grounds
of potential self-incrimination,[85] but another AAA official, Nathaniel Weyl,
would later testify that he attended Communist cell meetings with Hiss[86] and
saw him pay his party dues,[87] testimony he would reaffirm in his 2004
autobiography.[88] Ex-Communists Ralph de Sola and George Hewitt would both
also testify to having seen Hiss at Communist Party
meetings.[89] A former GRU station chief in London and New York reported that
during the early and middle 1930s Hiss was a source of agent information for a
Soviet spy ring in Washington, the Silvermaster group, according to Pavel
Sudoplatov, former deputy director of Foreign Intelligence for the USSR.[90]
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt was the president for the Franklin
Delano Roosevelt administration,
attended the Yalta Conference, and his
granddaughter is Laura Delano Roosevelt.
Note: Joseph
Stalin attended the Yalta Conference,
and was the premier for the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR).
Alger Hiss
attended the Yalta Conference with Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), and was the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
is the president of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview
with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for
population control by involving the United States in war)
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Human Rights First.
George Soros
is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations,
and was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Roosevelt Institute, the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the Human Rights First.
Gregory
B. Craig is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and was the White House counsel
for the Barack Obama administration.
Jon M.
Huntsman Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), and was the ambassador to China
for the Barack Obama administration.
Jonathan
Soros is a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute,
and George Soros’s son.
Linda
McKay Stevenson Weicker Roosevelt was a governor & director for the Roosevelt Institute, and married to Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Jr.
Laura
Delano Roosevelt is a governor at the Roosevelt Institute,
and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s
(FDR) granddaughter.
Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt is the chair for the Roosevelt Institute,
and an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation.
Mikhail
Gorbachev is an advisory board member for the Wheelchair
Foundation, was the general secretary for the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Joseph
Stalin was the premier for the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR), and attended the Yalta
Conference.
David
Wallace Douglas is a governor at the Roosevelt Institute,
and Henry Agard Wallace’s grandson.
Jean Wallace Douglas is a governor at the Roosevelt
Institute, and Henry Agard Wallace’s
daughter.
Henry
Agard Wallace is David Wallace Douglas’s
grandfather, Jean Wallace Douglas’s father, the
vice president for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt
administration, and the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Agriculture for the Franklin
Delano Roosevelt administration.
John
Brademas is a governor for the Roosevelt Institute,
and was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
Henry A. Kissinger
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), is a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Kissinger’s 1974 Plan for Food
Control Genocide
by Joseph Brewda
Dec. 8, 1995
Walter
Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the chairman & CEO for CNN.
Ted Turner
is the founder of CNN, an honorary
board member for Green Cross International, and a co-chairman
for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Green Cross International
Mikhail
Gorbachev is the founder of Green Cross International,
was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Joseph
Stalin was the premier for the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR), and attended the Yalta
Conference.
Alger Hiss
attended the Yalta Conference with Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), and was the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank)
was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank).
Hisashi
Owada is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), and was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R. Eden
Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP
Newton N.
Minow is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama
was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
James D.
Zirin is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and was a director at Human Rights First.
Mark A.
Angelson was a partner at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a director at Human Rights First.
Louis
Henkin was a director at Human Rights First,
and Felix Frankfurter’s clerk.
Felix
Frankfurter’s clerk was Louis Henkin,
and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Harold H. Koh
was a director at Human Rights First, and the legal
adviser at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
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Waves of immigrant minors present crisis for Obama, Congress
Waves of immigrant minors present crisis for Obama,
Congress
By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON Wed May 28, 2014 1:54pm EDT
(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of
children unaccompanied by parents or relatives are flooding across the southern
U.S.
border illegally, forcing the Obama administration and Congress to grapple with
both a humanitarian crisis and a budget dilemma.
An estimated 60,000 such children
will pour into the United States
this year, according to the administration, up from about 6,000 in 2011. Now, Washington is trying to
figure out how to pay for their food, housing and transportation once they are
taken into custody.
The flow is expected to grow. The
number of unaccompanied, undocumented immigrants who are under 18 will likely
double in 2015 to nearly 130,000 and cost U.S. taxpayers $2 billion, up from
$868 million this year, according to administration estimates.
The shortage of housing for these
children, some as young as 3, has already become so acute that an emergency
shelter at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, has been opened and
can accommodate 1,000 of them, Homeland
Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in an interview with Reuters.
The issue is an added source of
tension between Democrats and Republicans, who disagree on how to rewrite
immigration laws. With comprehensive legislation stalled, President Barack
Obama is looking at small, administrative steps he could take, which might be announced
this summer. No details have been outlined but immigration groups are pressing
him to take steps to keep families with children together.
The minors flooding over the
border are often teenagers leaving behind poverty or violence in Mexico and other parts of Central America such
as Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. They are sometimes
seeking to reunite with a parent who is already in the United States,
also without documentation.
"This is a humanitarian
crisis and it requires a humanitarian response," Senate Appropriations
Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski
said in an interview. The Maryland Democrat, a former social worker, has
likened the flood of unaccompanied children to the "boat people" of
past exodus movements.
Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, the senior
Republican on Mikulski's committee, said, "The need is there, you know the
humanitarian aspect of it, but we're challenged on money."
Immigration groups lobbying for comprehensive
reform argue that children are being hit hardest by the political deadlock.
BLAME GAME
With an even bigger funding
challenge looming for 2015, Mikulski worries corners might be cut. She said
children could end up being placed in federal holding cells meant only for
adults and that funds might have to be shifted from other programs, such as
refugee aid, to help cover the $252-per-day cost of detaining a child.
Mark Lagon, who coordinated the
George W. Bush administration’s efforts to combat human trafficking, tied the
sharp increase in unaccompanied minors to both U.S.
economic factors and escalating violence in Central
America.
He noted that there was a decrease
in migration to the United States
in the period 2008-2010 that reflected the U.S. economic downturn, and that
has been reversed.
"Now, it is again seen that
there is a better life to be had in the United States and it’s worth the
risk" of parents encouraging their children to make the perilous journey
from countries like El Salvador and Honduras, said Langon, now a professor at
Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Also, with drug wars raging in Mexico, those fleeing Central American countries
are less likely to make Mexico
their destination and instead continue onto the United States, he said.
The budget and border-security
implications of the problem could spill into campaigns for the November
congressional elections, especially in Senate races in states with significant
immigrant populations, such as North Carolina
and Colorado.
Republican Representative John
Carter of Texas blamed Obama for what he
called a "nightmare at the border" with "tens of thousands of
children" being smuggled into the United States.
In an opinion piece in The Hill
newspaper last month, Carter said Obama's policies had created an
"invitational posture for illegal immigrants." He said the
administration helped to fuel the crossings with a 2012 decision to give
temporary relief from deportation to certain children brought to the United States
illegally by their parents.
Immigration advocacy groups point
out that the unaccompanied youths coming to the United States since 2011 would not
qualify under that program.
Lagon criticized the
"political canard from my fellow Republicans" who suggest the tide of
unaccompanied minors is the result of Obama policies, especially given Obama’s
aggressive deportation policy since he became president in 2009.
A report by the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees, based on
interviews of 404 children aged 12-17 who left their home countries, found that
70 percent did so because of either domestic abuse, or violence "in the
region by organized armed criminal actors, including drug cartels and gangs or
by State actors."
HARROWING JOURNEYS
Minors sometimes endure horrific
conditions to get to the United
States, immigration groups say.
Suyen G, who asked that her full
name not be published, said she left her native Honduras two years ago aged 16
after securing $9,000 to pay a smuggler to get her into the United States.
"I didn't know it was illegal because a lot of people come. I thought it
was something that normal people just do," she said through a translator.
Suyen has a quick smile and looks
like a typical American teenager in her sandals and fashionably-torn blue
jeans. But she recounts a harrowing journey, saying she left home to escape a
father who was beating her, and that along the way she was raped by a
"coyote" or migrant smuggler. She endured 24 hours with no food as she
sat atop a slow-moving freight train through Mexico and made an overnight trek
by foot.
When she struggled to pull herself
over a wall at the Mexico-U.S.
border, Suyen said, "I thought I was going to die" after being shoved
over by a coyote, plunging down the other side and landing atop a man below.
Unlike most kids, she entered the United States undetected, only to end up in a
stranger's house in Houston.
There, she said she was forced to work without pay for a month before being
transferred to a vineyard, where she cooked meals, also without pay, for 300
migrant workers. Reuters has not verified the details of her journey but Suyen
told a similar story in a sworn deposition to an immigration court.
Finally, Suyen said, she was
allowed to travel to northern Virginia
where she was reunited with her mother.
Rebecca Walters, a lawyer in the
northern Virginia office of Ayuda, which
provides assistance to immigrants, helped Suyen win protective status and
eventually a "green card" that allows her to work legally in the United States.
Walters said she typically juggles
up to 60 cases at a time involving unaccompanied minors. A lot of her cases
were boys who said they had friends who had been murdered for refusing to join
gangs at home, she said.
Walters told of a boy from El Salvador who
lived with an abusive, alcoholic father. The boy had to stop going outside to
avoid getting beaten by gang members trying to recruit him.
In 2011, the boy and his brother,
aged 16 and 15, arrived in the United
States after walking for days in the desert.
They were caught by U.S.
authorities just inside border.
If not for the father's abuse,
"it would have been almost impossible" to prevent the brothers'
deportation, Walters said.
Minors who escape domestic abuse
in their countries have a good chance of winning a special protective status
from U.S.
immigration courts, even if they are
caught at the border. But the law does not recognize gang activity as a reason
to protect immigrant children.
Barbara Mikulski
Barbara A. Mikulski
is a member of the Senate Committee on
Appropriations, and Ann Lewis was
her chief of staff.
Note: Ann
Lewis was Barbara A. Mikulski’s chief
of staff, and a VP for the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Amnesty International, the Human
Rights Watch, and the Natural Resources
Defense Council.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a board member for the International Crisis Group, was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, and a benefactor at the Human
Rights Watch.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Amnesty International, Refugees
International, the Roosevelt
Institute, the Human Rights Watch,
the Natural Resources Defense Council,
the NAACP Legal Defense &
Educational Fund, the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Ernesto
Zedillo was a board member for the International
Crisis Group, and the president of Mexico.
Martin
London was an attorney for the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America, and is of counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
Jeh Charles
Johnson is a partner at Paul, Weiss,
Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, the secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and was a governor for the Roosevelt Institute.
Adrian W. DeWind
was a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison, a co-founder for the Human Rights Watch, a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and a director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Theodore V.
Wells Jr. is a partner at Paul,
Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and a co-chair emeritus at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Jerome
A. Cohen is of counsel at Paul,
Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is the
president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank),
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was a board
member for the International Crisis
Group, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Ernesto
Zedillo was a board member for the International
Crisis Group, and the president of Mexico.
Warren
B. Rudman was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), a lifetime trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and of counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
David M.
Rubenstein is a co-chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank),
the president of the Economic Club of
Washington, was a benefactor for the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. was the president
of the Economic Club of Washington, a
member of the Iraq Study Group, is a senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund,
an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Lee
H. Hamilton was a co-chair for the Iraq
Study Group, is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and a co-chair for
the Independent Task Force on
Immigration and America's Future.
Carlos
Pascual was a VP at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a U.S.
ambassador for Mexico.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee
at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Kathleen
Brown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was an attorney
at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
Alejandro N.
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& Myers LLP, a director at the U.S.
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Video: Obama Earns Icy Reception At West Point
Video: Obama Earns Icy Reception At West
Point
by Debra Heine 28 May 2014, 6:28
PM PDT
The president was given what has
been described as an "icy reception" before,
during and after his speech in front of cadets at their graduation ceremony at
the US Military Academy at West Point,
Wednesday, causing some to question the wisdom of giving a defensive,
self-serving, partisan speech at a military venue.
On Fox News' Special Report, Charles Krauthammer
said, “I think the speech was
literally pointless — it didn’t have a point, it was a defensive speech,” he
said. “It was an answer to the chorus of criticism, even from his side of the
aisle, that it has been a weak, leaderless, rudderless foreign policy, which it
has been.”
And he went on to note, “there was
no response from any of the cadets — it was quiet as a mouse.”
But their icy reaction appeared to
be about more than just the content of Obama's
vapid, deceptive, delusional
speech.
Upon his introduction, he received
only a light smattering of applause with an aborted attempt at standing O by a
small handful in the audience. In the video below, no cadets can be seen coming
to their feet.
That is what the military thinks
of a president who abandons a Marine
held in a Mexican prison for taking a wrong turn, neglects the VA, shuts out veterans from national memorials during shut-down theater, forces suicidal RoE,
lies about Benghazi, takes full credit for killing
Osama Bin Laden after preparing to blame the military if anything went wrong,
and then leaks information that leads to Navy Seal
deaths, and then sends their parents
form-letter condolence notes signed with an auto-pen.
In contrast, look how West Point
Cadets greeted President Bush during his final visit to the academy in December
of 2008 - arguably at the lowest ebb of his presidency.
Veterans
Chuck
Hagel was the deputy administrator for the U.S. Veterans Administration, a sergeant in the U.S. Army, the chairman for the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and is the secretary at the U.S. Department of Defense for the Barack Obama administration.
Note: Togo D. West Jr. was
the secretary at the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs, the general counsel for the U.S. Department of Defense, the general counsel for the Department of the Navy, the secretary
for the U.S. Army, and is a director
at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
Eric
K. Shinseki is the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs for the Barack
Obama administration, was a U.S.
Army general, and a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), and the Center for American Progress.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and
a supporter for the Center for American
Progress.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
Patrick J. Murphy
is a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, a board of visitor’s member for the U.S. Military
Academy (West Point),
and was a U.S. Army paratrooper.
Daniel W.
Christman was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), a lieutenant general for the U.S. Army, and the superintendent for the U.S. Military
Academy (West Point).
Andrew
Goodpaster was the chairman for the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and the superintendent for the U.S. Military
Academy (West Point).
Barry R.
McCaffrey was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), a U.S. Army
general, and a professor at the U.S. Military
Academy (West Point).
George A. Joulwan
is a director at the Atlantic Council of
the United States (think
tank), was a U.S. Army general, a
director at the General Dynamics
Corporation, and a professor at the U.S. Military
Academy (West Point).
James
S. Crown is a director at the General
Dynamics Corporation, a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, was a director at the General Dynamics Corporation, and a
lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Frederic V. Malek
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was a board of
visitor’s member for the U.S. Military Academy
(West Point).
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