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The Camp of the Saints

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"Bannon has agitated for a host of anti-immigrant measures. In his previous role as executive chairman of the right-wing news site Breitbart — which he called a “platform for the alt-right,” the online movement of white nationalists — he made anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim news a focus. 

But the top Trump aide’s repeated references to The Camp of the Saints, an obscure 1973 novel by French author Jean Raspail, reveal even more about how he understands the world. The book is a cult favorite on the far right, yet it’s never found a wider audience. There’s a good reason for that: It’s breathtakingly racist. 

“[This book is] racist in the literal sense of the term. It uses race as the main characterization of characters,” said Cécile Alduy, professor of French at Stanford University and an expert on the contemporary French far right. “It describes the takeover of Europe by waves of immigrants that wash ashore like the plague.” 

The book, she said, “reframes everything as the fight to death between races.”
Upon the novel’s release in the United States in 1975, the influential book review magazine Kirkus Reviews pulled no punches: “The publishers are presenting The Camp of the Saints as a major event, and it probably is, in much the same sense that Mein Kampf was a major event.” 

Linda Chavez, a Republican commentator who has worked for GOP presidents from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush but opposed Trump’s election, also reviewed the book back then. Forty years later, she hasn’t forgotten it. 

'It is really shockingly racist,' Chavez told The Huffington Post, 'and to have the counselor to the president see this as one of his touchstones, I think, says volumes about his attitude.” 

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“I did not have communications with the Russians.”, Sessions/C'ville RDA Campos&Chetty Builders, Paranoia talking?

“I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I did not have communications with the Russians.”  Was Jeff Sessions paranoia talking when he said he hadn't communicated with Russians?

Ernie Campos in an effort to confirm he was not a public official at the time he met with developers voluntarily confirmed in public that he met with developers (Chetty Builders at Chetty Chetty Headquarters in December of 2005). 

When I heard Ernie say this I said to myself, "There is a God!' A few months later I learned Campos allegedly was visited at his business by 2 FBI agents. 

Jeff Sessions voluntarily confirmed he met with Russians. Maybe Senator Franken thought "There is a God"

Sessions seemed to be trying to head off perjury charges when he told reporters “my reply to the question was honest and correct as I understood it at the time,” he said, referring to Senator Al Franken’s question about possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. “I was taken aback by this brand new information that surrogates—and I had been a surrogate for Donald Trump—had been meeting continuously with Russian officials. In retrospect, I should’ve slowed down and said I did meet with one Russian official a couple times—that would be the ambassador.” 

In fact, Sessions wasn’t being asked about his own meetings with Russian officials. In the confirmation hearing, Franken summarized a news story that reported on a “continuing exchange of information” between Russian officials and Trump advisers, and then asked Sessions what he would do “if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this campaign.” In retrospect, Sessions’s dishonest answer is even stranger. “I’m not aware of any of those activities,” Sessions told Franken, adding, “I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I did not have communications with the Russians.” Why Sessions chose to give an answer about his own contact with the Russians—when Franken hadn’t asked about that—is a mystery that we can only hope ongoing investigations will explain. 

Sessions went on to describe one of his meetings with Kislyak, a scheduled sit-down in his Senate office with two senior aides there as well. He flashed back and forth between saying he couldn’t “recall” much of the meeting, and going into detail about their discussions of Ukraine. “To listen to him…Russia had done nothing that was wrong in any area, and everybody else was wrong with regard to the Ukraine,” Sessions recalled. “It got to be a little bit of a testy conversation at that point.” That’s a lot of information for a meeting Sessions seemed not to recall. 

Moreover, the revelation that the Kislyak meeting was on his calendar, and that senior staffers attended with him, makes it even more remarkable that Sessions didn’t disclose it to the Senate Judiciary Committee—or go back and correct the record after he was “taken aback” by “brand new information” (which wasn’t at all new) about connections between Trump campaign officials and Russian leaders."

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Paranoia talking?:

• “I did not have communications with the Russians.” -Jeff Sessions. 
• Ernie Campos at a Coatesville RDA meeting publicly confirmed he met with Chetty Builders “before he was an RDA member."

I believe this is why Mr. Campos was explicit in claiming he was not an RDA member:

Public Corruption

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Was Ernie Campos at Chetty Builders Headquarters in December of 2005?

Ernie Campos, He is adding a correction to the minutes of the RDA meeting of June 19, 2006:

Mr. Campos said, “Mr. Pawlowski asks Mr. Campos if any one accompanied him to a meeting with developers, da, da, da, da. That was clearly stated that was prior to Mr. Campos being an RDA member. “

When Mr. Campos spoke about a meeting with developers that occurred “prior to Mr. Campos being an RDA member” was he referring to an alleged meeting with Marc Hargraves at Chetty Headquarters in December of 2005? Did Andrew Lehr, Bob Saucier and Pat Sellers accompany Mr. Campos when he “met with a developer”? Was a sum of money discussed? Was Patsy Ray referred to as a “bag lady” at that alleged meeting?
Listen to Mr. Campos at the RDA meeting:

Confederate "Stars & Bars" on white pickup truck at Lincoln Hwy & Airport Rd. near Coatesville, PA

The Stars and Bars was used as the official flag of the Confederacy from March 1861 to May of 1863.

Confederate Stars & Bars flag on white pickup truck. Lincoln Hwy. & Airport Rd. near Coatesville PA. MARCH 2, 2017 11:04:06 AM

Among people who currently fly Confederate flags it appears to be extremely rare.

I think it's a Ford f250 about 2000.

It's a little hard to see, iPhones are slow to change to camera. But I got a good look at it.

Milo’s Alt-Pedophilia Conservative movement.

Conservatives have strayed pretty far from the Evangelical Christian Republicans of about a year ago to the pussy grabbing Conservative Republicans of today. It happened so fast that maybe “Christian Republican” was aways a sham.

By the way, how does Donald Trump feel about grabbing 13 year old’s vaginas?

Maybe we should ask Putin. 

Milo’s Alt-Pedophilia Conservative movement:  

"The story of Milo Yiannopoulos’s fall from conservative grace ended when a conservative blog posted video footage of him making comments that seemed to rationalize pedophilia. But it started when a 16-year-old high school student in Canada decided Yiannopoulos was embraced much too closely by mainstream conservatives. 

The teen was moved to dig up footage on Yiannopoulos when she heard that he’d been invited to speak at the highest profile gathering of conservatives each year in America, the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). She defines herself as “very socially liberal,” but leans right on economics and foreign policy. Yiannopoulos, who has built his personal brand on anti-Muslim, anti-feminism, and general bigotry, exemplifies the place where she doesn’t believe the conservative movement should go."

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III%ers Militia member sentenced for gun violation threatened to shoot Middlesex Township, Pa Police officer

III%ers Militia member sentenced for gun violation threatened to shoot Middlesex Township, Pa  Police officer  

According to the Middlesex Township Police Department, the incident occurred like this:
In July, as police were arresting his son, Colin Filaroski, on a drug-possession charge, Michael Filaroski threatened to shoot the police, telling them he was a member of the "Three Percent Militia" -- a self-described, far-right patriot movement that opposes government intervention, except as stated in the U.S. Constitution. 

Filaroski threatened to shoot everyone involved in his son's case and had a 9-mm handgun stuck in his waist, which a felony conviction out of New Hampshire prohibits him from possessing. 

A jury in December convicted him of the firearms charge, but its members were deadlocked on a charge of terroristic threats, which the prosecution ended up dismissing.  

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Anti-Communist pro fascist crusaders, Two Gun Bessie Burchett & Bear gun Betsy DeVos

This flyer is a solicitation for Bessie Burchett's book Education for Destruction. Burchett was a Philadelphia public schoolteacher who argued that education ought to be limited to ""a select few white Protestant Americans of high IQ."" She was pro-Nazi, anti-Catholic and Antisemitic. She resigned from West Philadelphia High School in 1941 minutes before she was about to be fired for advocating race hatred and being a Nazi sympathizer. Known as ""Two Gun"" Bessie for her habit of wearing her guns in class. She became a sought after figure as a speaker for pro-fascist and other reactionary organizations through the early Second World War years. 

http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15037coll15/id/677 

From this perspective, Lend-Lease was nothing short of “treachery”, leaving the United States “as helpless as Lenin could have wished” (29). To quote Bessie Burchett, “The men who might defend their homes against communists are being drafted, some are being sent out of the country while locust hordes of aliens are still coming in to take their jobs . . . . Is it not significant that the men who have rushed England into this suicidal war are predominantly not of Anglo-Saxon stock? And that in our own Administration, the men who are pushing us relentlessly towards the same bottomless abyss are not of English or traditional American blood?” (30). This foreshadowed the ruin or extermination of ”the white race, white Christian civilization” (33). The “Draft Bill” was a “Dictator Bill” (31).  Roosevelt was plotting to abdicate American sovereignty to British imperial and financial suzerainty (32). Russian entry into the war in June 1941 made matters starker:  “If we had only kept clear of England’s war, we should now be clear of England’s evil ally” (33). All this was the consequence of ignoring “the expert advice of our great Colonel Lindbergh” (34)...

During 1940 and 1941, the old activists of the Anti-Communism Society and the Christian Front focused their rhetoric on the isolationist cause (75). In the Summer of 1940, Thomas Blisard and the C.D.C.R. led a delegation to Washington to protest changes in the Neutrality Act (76). In September 1941, some three hundred attended a “Mothers’ meeting” organized by Joseph Gallagher and Bessie Burchett at the Bethe Bellevue Stratford to protest Lend-Lease, a law “giving our armaments, clothes, food, money and our men to the British; and for what?” Britain herself was a parasite, unwilling to spare its own riches: “Why don’t they give up more of their own wealth? But no, they want ours, and all for nothing”. Bessie Burchett asserted that “Roosevelt is nothing but a Charlie McCarthy because he is nothing but a stooge, even a stooge would know he is used as a stooge” (77).

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Philip Jenkins, Hoods and Shirts: The ExtremeRight in Pennsylvania 1925-1950 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997).

How Our Public Schools Became a"Communist Threat" 

 by Paul Buchheit 

 Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast called the public school system a "socialist regime." Michelle Rhee cautions us against commending students for their 'participation' in sports and other activities. 

 Privatizers believe that any form of working together as a community is anti-American. To them, individual achievement is all that matters. They're now applying their winner-take-all profit motive to our children. 

 We're Sliding Backwards, Towards "Separate and Unequal" 

 In 1954, the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. the Board of Education seemed to place our country on the right track. Chief Justice Earl Warren said that education "is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms." Thurgood Marshall insisted on "the right of every American to an equal start in life." 

 But then we got derailed. We've become a nation of inequality, worse than ever before, worse than during the racist "separate but equal" policy of Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896. The Civil Rights Project at UCLA shows that "segregated schools are systematically linked to unequal educational opportunities." The Economic Policy Institute tells us that "African American students are more isolated than they were 40 years ago." 

 The privatizers clamor for vouchers and charters to improve education, but such methods generally don't serve those who need it most. According to a Center on Education Policy report, private schools serve 12 percent of the nation's elementary and secondary students, but only one percent of disabled students. Forty-three percent of public school students are from minority families, compared to 24% of private school students. 

 Meanwhile, as teachers continue to get blamed, the Census Bureau tells us that an incredible 38 percent of black children live in poverty. 

 The Underprivileged Have Been Cheated Out Of Taxes 

 A Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) report revealed that total K-12 education cuts for fiscal 2012 were about $12.7 billion. 

 Almost 90 percent of K-12 funding comes from state and local taxes. But in 2011 and 2012, 155 of the largest U.S. corporations paid only about half of their required state taxes. That comes to $14 billion per year in unpaid taxes, more than the K-12 cuts.  

Untaxed and Unqualified Foundations Want To "Save Our Schools" 

 The "starve the beast" mentality allows the privatizers to claim that our "Soviet-style" schools don't work, and that a business approach must be used instead. Philanthropists like Bill Gates and Eli Broad and Michael Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch and the Walton family, who have little educational experience among them, and who have little accountability to the public, are promoting "education reform" with lots of standardized testing. 

 But according to the National Research Council, "The tests that are typically used to measure performance in education fall short of providing a complete measure of desired educational outcomes in many ways." Diane Ravitch notes that the test-based Common Core standards were developed by a Gates-funded organization with almost no public input. Desperate states had to adopt the standards to get funding. 

 Bill Gates may be well-intentioned, but he's a tech guy, and his programming of children into educational objects is disturbing. One of his ideas is to videotape teachers and then analyze their performances. The means of choosing 'analysts' is unclear. Another Gates idea is the Galvanic Skin Response bracelet, which would be attached to a child to measure classroom engagement, and ultimately gauge teacher performance. It all sounds like a drug company's test lab. 

 As noted by Ravitch and others, philanthropic organizations tend to contribute to "like-minded entities," which are likely to exclude representatives of the neediest community organizations. They are also tax-exempt. And when educational experiments go wrong, they can just leave their mess behind and move on to their next project. 

 Getting Past Our "Exceptionalism" 

 If we're willing to look beyond our borders for help, we will see the short-sightedness of our educational "reforms." Finland's schools were considered mediocre 30 years ago, but they've achieved a remarkable turnaround by essentially challenging their teachers before they're entrusted with the welfare of the children. Most Finnish teachers are unionized, and they undergo rigorous masters-level training to ensure proficiency in the teaching profession, which is held in the same high esteem as law and medicine. In keeping with this respect for learning, government funding is applied equally to all schools, classes in the arts are available to all students, and tuition is free. 

 As a result, Finnish students, who are not subjected to standardized testing, finish at or near the top of international comparisons for reading, math, and science. 

 It's not just Finland with such impressive results. Research at the National Center on Education and the Economy has confirmed that educational systems in Japan, Shanghai, and Ontario, Canada have prospered with an emphasis on the preparation of teachers for the essential task of instructing their young people. 

 A Strong Community Leads To Individual Success 

 George Lakoff summarizes: "The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases..." 

 Public education is vital to the promise of equal opportunity for all. But it will only succeed if we work together as a community, and stop listening to the voices of profit and inexperience. 

 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.

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