--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" <geezerfr...@...> wrote: > > You said it: "According to this video". And just who, pray tell, is this all > knowing video god you believe in? You believe anything that lands in your > in-box don't you? > It was a text and slides video, not much different to writing an article. As to the author, I care more about the substance than knowing who the author was. In this case what I found most interesting were all the references to interests in communism. Even quoting Barack's own biography. I don't take all this as a slur on his character! One of my mentors is Scott Nearing who was a life long communist featured in the movie Reds. But the reference made to Obama not declaring using other names to Illinois Bar Assoc does seem to be dishonest.
Why I find his interest in communism interesting as it is common for young people to be seekers, and certainly the ideal of socialist utopia does often inspire young people. As in the 1920's period portrayed in the movie Reds. The irony of hindsight is we now know their "heroes" of the Bolshevik Revolution were funded by the very bankers and elite they thought they were going to "liberate" the "workers of the world" from. All of this seems highly relevant today. As we're having an economic crisis and mega scale environmental crisis that is really causing people to wonder what on earth is wrong with our economic system and what can make it better? I heard Maharishi say in India, to the great interest of the audience, many who wrote this in their notes "Capitalism is useless. Communism is useless". I also heard he said when the USSR collapsed... "now it is the turn for Capitalism to collapse." Despite the awful nature of the Gulf crisis, and the economic woes, and serious sovereign debt I am very optimistic that something extraordinary is happening in the world right before our eyes that has the makings of a much better future for mankind. The birther question which got my attention of late is just that- a question. Perhaps it's nothing - as most of you are saying. But I do think we're seeing an emergence of a new world here. And a lot of secrets are being exposed. Even in the main stream media. Which is what interested me in the drugs and Wachovia story in Bloomberg. I tend to be skeptical of the MSM in my search for the truth. I do find the Norman Dodd testimony one of the most important whistleblowers in recent US history. If 55 mins is too long for you... there is a transcript of the interview here: http://supremelaw.org/authors/dodd/interview.htm It begins with this: Alan Gaither was, at that time, President of the Ford Foundation. Mr. Gaither had sent for me when I found it convenient to be in New York, asked me to call upon him at his office, which I did. On arrival, after a few amenities, Mr. Gaither said, "Mr. Dodd, we have asked you to come up here today because we thought that, possibly, off the record, you would tell us why the Congress is interested in the activities of foundations such as ourselves." Before I could think of how I would reply to that statement, Mr. Gaither then went on to say, "Mr. Dodd, all of us who have a hand in the making of policies here, have had experience operating under directives, the substance of which is, that we use our grant-making power so as to alter life in the United States that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union." Hence my interest in Obama's youthful flirtation with communism. I have great hope that this "purification" we're seeing in the world is an emerging new truth, and it will transcend the apparent opposites of left v right in politics. We're moving outside the "box" of the past and into something much better...
