Saturday, May 31, 2014

Message to Police



Message to Police
By Josie Outlaw

Why Good People Should Be Armed



Why Good People Should Be Armed
By Josie Outlaw

Opening of the MENSA Forte Forum summer Semester

What a rousing success!  Pizza, beer, and 15 people come to hear Dr. Bill Hutchins lead a discussion on "American Exceptionalism" at the opening of the MENSA Forte Forum summer Semester. Male and female - 20 something through 60 something in age. Lots of well thought out ideas mixed in with lots of laughter.

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

SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELING NOW AVAILABLE AT BEST SELF USA

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SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELING NOW AVAILABLE AT BEST SELF USA

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* Compulsion to drink/use drugs despite any of the above-cited problems.


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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. Mayorkas was an attorney at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, a director at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and is the deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Jeh Charles Johnson is the secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and was a governor for the Roosevelt Institute.






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).