400-408 – Jennifer Walsh, professor of political science at APU (apu.edu/clas/faculty/jwalsh), weighs in on the 2012 elections.
• Andrew Stiles (NRO, 10/6/2011) Reid's Power Play. Senator Harry Reid just implemented the "nuclear option," tossing history and precedent aside and changing the rules of the Senate by a simple 51-48 majority vote along party lines. Reid did not want the Republican minority forcing the Democrat majority to vote on Obama's Jobs Bill because Reid knows Democrats would vote against it and it would lose. Now, no longer can the minority party offer amendments to bills before the floor. Reid may even go further and by simple majority vote end the 60-vote requirement to break a filibuster in order to pass another trillion-dollar stimulus. This has effectively turned the Senate into the House. Payback in January 2013 won't be pleasant when Obamacare comes up for repeal before a Republican-majority Senate.
• Peggy Noonan (WSJ, 10/7/2011) 'They Won't Care Till They're Affected'. In Iowa and Florida, 'Wal-Mart moms' take a dim view of Washington.
• Blaze (10/7/2011) MEET AMERICA'S '53%' – AND THEY HAVE A MESSAGE FOR THE '99%' PROTESTERS.
408 – Win a signed copy of Dr. David Jeremiah's new book I Never Thought I'd See The Day: Culture at the Crossroads by registering at kkla.com, and catch David Jeremiah's Turning Point weekdays at 11am.
413-423 – Jennifer Walsh,
428-438 – Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (aifdemocracy.org), an organization "committed to demonstrating the synergy of American democracy and its founding principles with the religion of Islam," refers to himself as a "Jeffersonian Muslim," he is a former Navy Lieutenant Commander in the Medical Corps, former president of the Arizona Medical Association, and today is an Internist in private practice in Phoenix. Check out the excellent documentary he narrates, The Third Jihad (thethirdjihad.com). AIFD has launched "The Muslim Liberty Project" for the purpose of inoculating youth against radicalization, and helping families deal with their children perhaps becoming radicalized. And, as a result of the recent hearings in Washington, Zuhdi is no longer the lone voice talking about modernization. Now, there's this coalition, americanislamicleadership.org. In response to the recent humanitarian crisis in Syria, Zuhdi was part of the team that started savesyrianow.com.
• James Woolsey & Seth Leibsohn (NRO, 10/6/2011) Zuhdi Jasser's Counter-Jihad: The administration refuses to utilize a strong opponent of radical Islam. After 15 months of vetting, and even earning a top-secret clearance, the Obama Administration has "removed from consideration" Zuhdi's nomination to be on the State Department's US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
• Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (NRO Corner, 10/6/2011) re: Zuhdi Jasser's Counter-Jihad. Sen Jon Kyl (R-AZ) posted the following statement yesterday at National Review Online concerning the growing controversy over the White House's last minute obstruction of the U.S. Senate appointment of Dr. Zuhdi Jasser to the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
I want to take the time to congratulate Jim and Seth for their piece today on Dr. Zuhdi Jasser. Dr. Jasser is one of my constituents and a patriot, and one of the most responsible voices in our cause to fight radical Islamist terrorists. I have appreciated his views and counsel on many topics in the past.
It's telling that this story has not attracted greater attention, and especially sad that "mainstream" media sources, which expressed outrage when someone of the Islamic faith was not elected to a position on a local Republican party's executive committee, are silent and ignore what clearly is the Obama administration's refusal to utilize an intelligent American who is committed to the cause of fighting radical Islamic terrorists.
At a crucial moment in the history of the Middle East and the Arab world, and when our country needs effective advocates of democracy and liberalism, the Obama administration has chosen to sideline Dr. Jasser. Our public diplomacy effort will be weaker for it.
439 – Pastors and Church Leaders! Learn to increase the impact of your church at our IMPACT 2011 CONFERENCE coming up November 1st at APU, with guest speakers Jim Reeves, Dudley Rutherford, Steve Mays and J.P. Jones. It's free, but you must pre-register at kkla.com.
443-452 – Dr. Zuhdi Jasser,
458-508 – Who's really behind the "spontaneous" Occupy Wall Street park-ins now plaguing 80 cities in this country, that began with the Day of Rage on September 17th? This whole thing was planned months ago by Stephen Lerner, anti-capitalist and union agitator who sits on the International Executive Board of the SEIU, and ACORN founder Wade Rathke, who was president of the SEIU in New Orleans. It's all part of an anti-banking jihad that hopes to bring down the stock market, a new financial collapse, and eventually the global end of capitalism. Lerner had reportedly visited the White House four times before this all started. Lerner has been called an "economic terrorist." There's lots of YouTube videos of him.
Below is a talk Lerner gave at The Left Forum on March 19, 2011. Why are the racist elements of these protests not reported, when 99% are white? The media hated the "tea-baggers" and took every opportunity to cast them in the most negative light, and now that same media are taking these "flea-baggers" and casting them in the most positive light.
• TheBlaze.com (10/7/2011) VIDEO EXPOSING HOW 'OCCUPY WALL STREET' WAS ORGANIZED FROM DAY ONE BY SEIU/ACORN FRONT – THE WORKING FAMILY PARTY, AND HOW THEY ALL TIE TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, DNC, DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA, TIDES AND GEORGE SOROS.
• (7:02) Left's Economic full. (Community Organizers, Socialists, and Union Leaders in a Discussion About Tactics and Strategies to Destroy the American Economy – The Left Forum, March 19, 2011.)
[My Rough Transcript] • Community Organizers, Socialists, and Union Leaders in a Discussion About Tactics and Strategies to Destroy the American Economy – The Left Forum, March 19, 2011.
• Stephen Lerner from SEIU, Architect of the Justice for Janitors Campaign.
• Currently he's working with partnering with unions and groups in Europe and South America to build a campaign to hold financial groups accountable.
• It seems to me that we're in a moment where we need to figure out much more through direct action, much more concrete way how we are really trying to disrupt and create uncertainty for capital, for how corporations operate. It may seem like a crazy thing in a moment of weakness, we could do it but the thing about a boom and bust economy is it is actually incredibly fragile because it's not based on real wealth, it's based on gambling and all that. There are actually extraordinary things that we could do right now that would start to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement.
And, for example, 10% of homeowners are… a quarter of all people who own a home are underwater, they are paying more for it than it is worth. 10% of those people are now in strategic default. Meaning they are refusing to pay but they are staying in their home. That's totally spontaneous, right? They figure it'll take a year to kick me out of my home, because all the foreclosures are backed up. I'm going to say I won't pay, it's just a good business decision.
If you could double that number you would put banks on the edge of insolvency again. And, so the question would be, what would happen if we could organize homeowners in mass to do a mortgage strike. To say, if we get half a million people to agree, "we won't pay our mortgages." It would literally cause a new financial crisis.
The four things we could do that could really upset Wall Street,
One is if city and state and other government entities demanded to renegotiate their debt, because they're paying too much interest. You might say, "Why would the banks ever do it?" Because cities and counties could say "We won't do business in the future with you if you don't renegotiate the debt now. About a third of bank profits come from dealing with cities and states. So, we could leverage the power we have of government to say we won't do business with you JP Morgan Chase anymore unless you do two things. You reduce the price our our interest, since your interest rate is down. And second, that you rewrite the mortgages for everybody in the community. We could make them do that.
The second thing is there is a whole question in Europe now about austerity and students raising the question of a debt strike. What would happen if students said "We're not going to pay." It's a trillion dollars. Think about Republicans screaming about debt, a trillion dollars in student debt.
There's a third thing we're thinking about. What if public employee unions, instead of just being on the defensive, put on the collective bargaining table when they negotiate they said we demand as a condition of negotiation that the government renegotiate. We believe in good financial management. It's crazy that you're paying too much interest to your buddies the bankers. It's a strike issue for us. We will strike unless you force the banks to relieve the debt of the city.
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I'm not going to go through all the detail except to say, these are extraordinary things we can do, then if you add on top of that, if we really thought about moving the kind of disruption in Madison but moving that to Wall Street and moving that to other cities around the country where we basically said, "You stole 17 trillion dollars, you've impoverished us, and we're going to make it impossible for you to operate.'
Labor can't lead it but we're a critical part of it. We do have money, we have millions of members who are furious. But I don't think this kind of movement can happen unless actually community groups and other activists take the lead. And that's a big reversal of how these coalition things are thought about. Unions helping communities.
If we really believe that we are in a transformative stage of what's happening in capitalism then we need to confront this in a serious way and develop a real ability to put a boot in the wheel, then we have to think not a labor community alliances, we have to thing about how together we are building something that really has the capacity to disrupt how the system operates.
And so I guess that just raise… we need to develop a whole new way of thinking about this, not as a partnership but building something new. Because the bottom line is, assuming that we get sued, it's going to be terrifying. We get an injunction that says, you know, "Union back down." So we need to build a movement knowing the oppression we're going to face. And, I think, the only way we can do that is to think much more creatively, and the key thing I sort of drive is, what does the other side fear most? The fear disruption, they fear uncertainty. Every article about Europe says, they rioted in Greece, the markets went down. The folks in this country care about one thing. How the stock market goes, how the bond market goes, and what the bonus is.
We need to have a very simple strategy, how do we bring down the stock market, how do we bring down their bonuses, how do we interfere with their ability to be rich. And, that means that you have to politically isolate them, economically isolate them, and disrupt them. So, it's not all theory, I'll do a pitch.
So, a bunch of us around the country think about who would be a really good company to hate. We decided that would be JP Morgan Chase. [Laughter] And, so, we're going to roll out over the next couple months what would hopefully be an exciting campaign about JP Morgan Chase, that is really about challenging the power of Wall Street.
And so, what we're looking about is in the first week of May, can we get enough people together, starting now, to really have a week of action in New York.
I don't want to give any details because I don't know which police agents are in the room. [Laughter]
But, the goal would be that we would roll out in New York the first week of May we will connect three ideas.
That we're not broke, there's plenty of money.
They have the money, we need to get it back.
And, that they're using Bloomberg and other people in government as the vehicle to try to destroy us.
And so we need to take on those folks at the same time.
We will start here. We are going to look at a week of civil disobedience, direct action all over the city, then roll into the JP Morgan shareholder meeting which they moved out of New York because I guess they were afraid because of Columbus. There is to be a ten state mobilization to try and shut down that meeting. And, then looking at bank shareholder meetings around the country, and try to create some moments like Madison except where we are on the offense instead of defense. Where we have brave and heroic battles challenging the power of the giant corporations and we hope to sort of inspire a much bigger movement about redistributing wealth and power in the country.
[Community Organizer on a panel. Abby Scher, Brooklyn College/CUNY] You talk about why unions are so invested because of their pension plans and why ungovernability, as Frances Fox Piven and Cloward taught us, you know, poor people movements are successful when they create conditions of ungovernability, and then you win victories.
528-539 – Who's really behind the "spontaneous" Occupy Wall Street park-ins now plaguing 80 cities in this country, that began with the Day of Rage on September 17th? This whole thing was planned months ago by Stephen Lerner, anti-capitalist and union agitator who sits on the International Executive Board of the SEIU, and ACORN founder Wade Rathke, who was president of the SEIU in New Orleans. It's all part of an anti-banking jihad that hopes to bring down the stock market, a new financial collapse, and eventually the global end of capitalism. Lerner had reportedly visited the White House four times before this all started. Lerner has been called an "economic terrorist." There's lots of YouTube videos of him.
Below is a talk Lerner gave at The Left Forum on March 19, 2011. Why are the racist elements of these protests not reported, when 99% are white? The media hated the "tea-baggers" and took every opportunity to cast them in the most negative light, and now that same media are taking these "flea-baggers" and casting them in the most positive light.
(:23) Left's Economic 1- mortgage strike. If you could double that number you would put banks on the edge of insolvency again. And, so the question would be, what would happen if we could organize homeowners in mass to do a mortgage strike. To say, if we get half a million people to agree, "we won't pay our mortgages." It would literally cause a new financial crisis.
(:06) Left's Economic 2- rewrite mortgages. And second, that you rewrite the mortgages for everybody in the community. We could make them do that.
(:03) Left's Economic 3- students not pay. The second thing is there is a whole question in Europe now about austerity and students raising the question of a debt strike. What would happen if students said "We're not going to pay." It's a trillion dollars.
(:20) Left's Economic 4- bring down rich. The folks in this country care about one thing. How the stock market goes, how the bond market goes, and what the bonus is. We need to have a very simple strategy, how do we bring down the stock market, how do we bring down their bonuses, how do we interfere with their ability to be rich. And, that means that you have to politically isolate them, economically isolate them, and disrupt them.
(:34) Left's Economic 5- protests in May. And so, what we're looking about is in the first week of May, can we get enough people together, starting now, to really have a week of action in New York. I don't want to give any details because I don't know which police agents are in the room. [Laughter] But, the goal would be that we would roll out in New York the first week of May we will connect three ideas. That we're not broke, there's plenty of money. They have the money, we need to get it back. And, that they're using Bloomberg and other people in government as the vehicle to try to destroy us.
(:18) Left's Economic 6- challenge corps. And, then looking at bank shareholder meetings around the country, and try to create some moments like Madison except where we are on the offense instead of defense. Where we have brave and heroic battles challenging the power of the giant corporations and we hope to sort of inspire a much bigger movement about redistributing wealth and power in the country.
(:17) Left's Economic 7- win victories. [Community Organizer on a panel. Abby Scher, Brooklyn College/CUNY] You talk about why unions are so invested because of their pension plans and why ungovernability, as Frances Fox Piven and Cloward taught us, you know, poor people movements are successful when they create conditions of ungovernability, and then you win victories.
544-554 – • TheBlaze.com (10/7/2011) VIDEO EXPOSING HOW 'OCCUPY WALL STREET' WAS ORGANIZED FROM DAY ONE BY SEIU/ACORN FRONT – THE WORKING FAMILY PARTY, AND HOW THEY ALL TIE TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, DNC, DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA, TIDES AND GEORGE SOROS. [The Left Forum on March 19, 2011.]
• The Working Families Party was established in the 90s by key members of the the socialist organizations The New Party, ACORN, SEIU, and a coalition of other labor unions and community organizations.
• Patrick Gaspard, the current executive director of the DNC, former director of Obama's Office of Political Affairs, was an organizer for the New Party, the executive vice president of the SEIU Local 1199, political director for Bertha Lewis (the former president of ACORN) and a co-chair of the Working Families Party.
• The New Party is a socialist political coalition co-founded in 1992 by academic and political activist Joel Rogers. The first strategic meetings to plan the New Party were held in Joel Rogers' Madison, Wisconsin home; Wade Rathke, ACORN and SEIU founder and Gerry Hudson from Democratic Socialists of America and SEIU were in attendance at those meetings.
• The New Party's influential Chicago chapter began to formed in January 1995. Its members consisted mainly of individuals from ACORN, SEIU and the Democratic Socialists of America. Obama attended a New Party function and received their endorsement in 1995.
• In 1994, a New Party newspaper listed more than 100 activists "who are building the NP;" some names among the list of 100 were Noam Chomsky, Frances Fox Piven, Wade Rathke, Cornel West, Jon Barton of SEIU, Maude Hurd of ACORN and Margaret Shelleda of SEIU.
• Gerry Hudson, SEIU Executive Vice President and original New Party member, serves on the board of the Apollo Alliance organized by Joel Rogers' group COWS Center on Wisconsin Strategy. The Alliance is a project of the Tides Center. Harry Reid credited the Apollo Alliance with helping to write the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
George Soros' Open Society Institute is a major source of money behind the Apollo Alliance and the Tides Foundation. [See quotes from Soros below in Alex Howe's piece]
• Alex Howe (Business Insider, 10/4/2011) The Truth About George Soros' Radical Vision To Remake The Entire World.
Quotes from George Soros:
"The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States."
"It may be shocking to say, but I believe that the current unilateralist posture of the United States constitutes a serious threat to the peace and prosperity of the world."
"The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat."
"To stabilize and regulate a truly global economy, we need some global system of political decision-making."
"In short, we need a global society to support our global economy."
"The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions."
• Aaron Klein (WND, 10/6/2011) Meet the Obama link to Wall Street terror: Radical's plan involves strategy to collapse stock market.
• Tiffany Gabbay (Blaze, 8/19/2011) WHO IS BEHIND THE 'US DAY OF RAGE' TO 'OCCUPY' WALL STREET THIS SEPTEMBER 17TH?
• Jonah Goldberg (NRO, 10/7/2011) Sorting Out the 'Extremists'. The difference between Wall Street protestors and the Tea Party.
(2:47) SF Protesters. (Tony Lopez with CBS 13 KVOR-TV in Sacramento ask protesters with the 'Occupy Sacramento' movement, "Why are you here?" 10/6/2011)
(:07) SF1, "Vague"
(:07) SF2, "Marxism"
(:11) SF3, "Greed"
555 – Phillip De Courcy's radio program Know the Truth wants to invite you to their fall concert to hear the amazing hymns of Keith and Kristyn Getty next Sunday, October 16th at Kindred Community Church. For info and tickets go to kkla.com.
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623 – Take a stand for Christ at the Line In The Sand event on Saturday, November 11th, at the Rose Bowl from 11am-9pm. It's free, but pre-register at kkla.com.
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(1:15) Steve Jobs. (Greg Gutfeld, one of the hosts on Fox New's "The Five" gives an awesome commentary on the life of Steve Jobs. 10/6/2011.)
• Courtroom View Network (8/11/2011) $1M Verdict Against Middle School Officials For Drug Sting.
