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A timely post about from www.Vdare.com about George Soros and Mark Zuckerberg attempting to manipulate the U.S. Congress. This follows this post about the murder in Danvers, Massachusettes. This follows this post about Republican election losses. In the meantime, you can get more involved if you like here and read an interesting book HERE.

Memo From Middle America | House Republicans Must Ignore Flown-In “Soros Evangelicals”!

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By Allan Wall

This Monday, October 28^th, the National Immigration Forum, funded by globalist billionaire George Soros, is flying 300 pro-Amnesty “conservatives” from throughout the country to Capitol Hill. Their mission: to persuade House Representatives to support Amnesty for illegal aliens. (See Conservative 'fly-in' aims to sell House GOP on immigration, By Alan Gomez, USA Today, October 18, 2013.)
The NIF’s supporters are the typical Treason Lobby Unholy Alliance: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, FWD.us run by Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Partnership for a New American Economy. What are “conservatives” doing is this crony capitalist company?
Ali Noorani, NIF Executive Director, says this “broad collection coming to Washington represents the conservative base of the Republican Party.”
But what is “conservative” about promoting contempt for the rule of law, radical demographic transformation and the eventual establishment of a Democratic one-party Big Government state?
Although Soros describes himself as an atheist, among the 300 Open Borders shock troops are Evangelical Christians, activists from the Evangelical Immigration Table, a bought-and-paid-for Front Group of Soros’s National Immigration Forum. These “Soros Evangelicals” say it’s the Christian Thing To Do and if you don’t jump aboard the bandwagon, you’re a Bad Person. Apparently, in a “good cause,” it’s ok to be judgmental.
I refer the reader to previous articles I’ve written on this disgusting fraud:

• Evangelical “Leaders” Need Reality Check—Evangelicals Don’t Support Amnesty June 2013
• Borders Are Biblical! Evangelicals Resisting Their Pro-Amnesty “Leaders” February 28, 2013
• The "Evangelical Immigration Table"—A Treason Lobby Front  February 1, 2013
• “Evangelical Immigration Table” Campaigns For Amnesty January 15, 2013
• FOCUS ON THE FAMILY Needs Evangelicals’ Money—Don’t Give It To Them!  June 17, 2012
• Southern Baptist Richard Land Campaigns for Amnesty on Capitol Hill July 16, 2010
• Evangelical Leadership's Betrayal Of Grassroots On Immigration Increasing July 13, 2010
• Evangelicals, The NAE And Immigration  February 26, 2010
• Hispanic Evangelicals Flunking National Question? January 3, 2007

See also Bill Barnwell’s Immigration: An Evangelical Approach (December 2, 2006) and Cecilia Davenport’s recent Immigration Enthusiast Evangelicals Squirming After Soros, Treason Lobby Funding Revealed, which recounts the cockroach-after-lights-turned-on reaction by Evangelical Immigration Table  luminaries to the revelation of their Soros connection.
Why are these alleged Evangelical leaders gung-ho for Amnesty anyway?
Let me be clear: as an Evangelical Christian myself, and a church deacon, I absolutely oppose Open Borders Christianity and don’t believe in guilt-tripping Christians into believing it’s a Good Thing. In Acts 17:26, we read that God made “all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth, and hath determined…the bounds of their habitations…” So borders are Biblical!
But a number of factors cause this Evangelical immigration enthusiasm. Some see immigrants as a way to replace Americans who have dropped out of the church. Evangelicals in general are more Politically Correct than is generally realized: they have been influenced by the usual trends in society: self-esteem pop psychology, radical egalitarianism, feminism, anti-intellectualism, etc. etc.
And then there’s Worldly Acclaim. Support for Amnesty wins Evangelicals Strange New Respect from a secular Mainstream Media not usually keen to speak positively of Evangelicals. Some Evangelical leaders just like receiving accolades from the MSM.
Not a problem we have here at VDARE.com!
And many Evangelicals, like most of our society, have completely bought into the Civil Rights mythos of the 1960s. Pro-Amnesty Evangelicals see their stance as an opportunity to identify with the Civil Rights tradition and feel good about themselves.
Thus 2008 Presidential candidate and Evangelical preacher Mike Huckabee taught the “Second Chance Doctrine” as governor of Arkansas. According to this idea, enabling illegal aliens today somehow makes up for how blacks were treated in the old days. Quoth Huckabee, “The Hispanic influx gives us a second chance to prove what kind of people we really are."
And Evangelical Amnesty-booster Bill Hamel, president of the Evangelical Free Church of America, says:

I missed the Civil Rights movement, I watched and did nothing and for decades I have regretted those days. I'm committed not to sit this one out.
[Evangelicals Mobilize 100,000 Churches for Immigration Reform, By Ted Hesson, ABC News, January 15, 2013]

So it’s all about Bill Hamel and Mike Huckabee increasing their self-esteem!
But no one group or leader can speak for all Evangelicals. The idea that Evangelicals all robotically follow orders from Evangelical Central is just a Leftist fundraising caricature. Anybody familiar with the Evangelical world knows it’s ridiculous.
There is no equivalent of an Evangelical Pope (not that all Catholics obey the Pope anyway!). Evangelicals don't all belong to the same church, but to many churches.
The American Evangelical world is one of endlessly multiplying and dividing denominations, non-denominations, independent churches and ministries. When individual Evangelicals don't agree with something in their congregation, they will often just quit and join another. Church splits often result in the formation of a new congregation. Even when two denominations merge, the result is often three denominations instead of one, since there is a group in each merging church that refuses to go along with it.
Some churches, like the one I attend for example, have autonomous congregations and no central headquarters. So it would be impossible to formulate an official statement for or against any such resolution.
Notwithstanding the ““Soros Evangelicals”” of the Evangelical Immigration Table, with their big names and favorable MSM coverage, Evangelicals who oppose Amnesty may well outnumber those who do. But they don’t have the MSM support—or the Soros money.
One organization that is doing something, as Cecilia Davenport reported on VDARE.com, is Evangelicals for Biblical Immigration. This group was founded by Kelly Monroe Kullberg, previously founder of the Veritas Forum and President of Christians for a Sustainable Economy, It has its own anti-Amnesty petition, which has been signed by, among others, Vanderbilt law professor Carol Swain and Eric Metaxas (who quite the EIT when the Soros connection was revealed) .
Even Time Magazine, a few days ago, recognized the conflict: Evangelicals Battle Over ‘Biblical’ Immigration [By Maya Rhodan, October 22, 2013].
Evangelicals who support American sovereignty and oppose Amnesty need to speak out within their own churches and denominations. Don’t donate to ministries that have become Open Border fronts, such as Focus on the Family. Don’t succumb to the guilt-tripping propaganda. Be an influence to others—you may well have to educate your minister and other church leaders. Use it as an opportunity to broaden the topic, from Amnesty to the entire National Question as it relates to Christianity.
Point out the damage that mass immigration perpetrates upon both the receiving countries and the sending countries.
Remind leaders that real Christian Charity is not Big Government Welfare or facilitating the demographic invasion of your country. Real Christian Charity is freely giving to others of your own resources, in the name of Christ.
Point out that there are Christians in other countries who also have a responsibility to help the needy in their own country. It’s not all about the U.S.A.
American Christians honestly wanting to help poor folks in other countries should be encouraged to help them there—where their dollars often go further.
Be persistent, because there’s been a lot of brainwashing that has to be reversed. Use the VDARE.COM website archive as a valuable source of information. Our articles cover a wide range of National Question topics and they are well-documented with hyperlinks.
Armed with good arguments and “speaking the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15) you can combat the globalist propaganda of the ““Soros Evangelicals”” and promote real Christianity—not globalism masquerading as Christianity.
And finally, recall the words of the Lord Himself: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”.
American citizen Allan Wall (email him) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico. Allan's wife is Mexican, and their two sons are bilingual.  In 2005, Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard. His VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here; his News With Views columns are archived here; and his website is here.

A timely post about from www.Vdare.com about a battle against White Americans. This follows this post about a call to murder white people in the U.S. In the meantime, you can get more involved if you like here and read an interesting book HERE.

Kevin MacDonald On Emerging White Political Independence

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By Patrick Cleburne    

The New Yorker: Here be Evil Whites!

I noted in POLITICO Big Foot Asserts Allegiance In Obamacare Ethnic War that the Left was becoming very explicit in formulating the Obamacare/Debt ceiling fight as a battle against White Americans. I see Kevin MacDonald, providing his characteristic intellectual leadership, has posted a systematic exposition of this in Implicit White Sightings: Shutting Down the Government and Talk of Secession
He keys off a war cry in The New Yorker Where the G.O.P.'s Suicide Caucus Lives By Ryan Lizza September 26 2013 from which the above map comes.  This denounces the GOP Congressmen brave enough to demand Obamacare defunding on the grounds that they represent whiter than average districts.

MacDonald reviews other examples of Left allegations of racial motivation and goes on

The thing is, I think these comments are basically right. It is about race and has been for some time and getting more so. A theme at TOO is the racialization of American politics. Liberals…think that they can transform the country by encouraging identity politics for Blacks and other minorities while making Whites an identity-less minority whose only function is to be economically milked by programs like Obamacare...

Liberals wring their hands and talk about how the White working class is not voting its economic interests, but these White people are definitely acting in tune with their ethnic interests, if only implicitly. Only a brain dead Marxist still worshiping at the altar of class warfare could fail to see that the political fault lines are fast becoming based on race, not social class.

Peter Brimelow’s version of this was Yes, It Is About Race. Quite Right Too.

MacDonald concludes

The left is gloating because they have transformed the country to the point where they are on the verge of a permanent majority with a non-White voting base.  Whites are rebelling. At this point, the rebellion is only implicitly a racial thing, but it may not be long before it becomes explicit. And that would be transformative.

One thing it will transform is the political structure on the Conservative/Right side. The emergence of a Generic American Party is inevitable – either by transforming or displacing the Republicans.

The Left (and the GOP Establishment)'s only hope of preventing this is by vigorous repression relying on Hitler’s Revenge.

It will not work.

A timely post about from www.debbieschlussel.com about a Miley Cyrus Halloween costume. This follows this post about the group “Tigres Del Norte” that was in the D.C. mall amnesty rally. In the meantime, you can get more involved if you like here and read an interesting book HERE.

Revolting Halloween Costume of the Day: Halloween City Markets This Trash to “Teens”

By Debbie Schlussel
On Sunday, I checked out the Halloween City store in Farmington Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. I went there mostly because I’d never gone inside one of these temporary stores that pop up for a month or two before Halloween, and I wanted to see what it was like. But I was kind of disturbed by one of the “costumes” the store featured under the sign, “TEEN.”
No, it wasn’t one of the many trashy costumes of maids, nurses, prostitutes, and what have you that are typically found at all of these costume places. Those are old hat, and the store wasn’t consciously suggesting those costumes for teens (though I’m sure it sells plenty of those to young teens, anyway). The costume I found objectionable was this one I took photos of below. Yes, it’s just a t-shirt, but it’s not just any t-shirt. It depicts the costume that America’s Skank-In-Chief Miley Cyrus wore in her highly sexual twerking appearance with Robin Thicke at the MTV Video Music Awards about a month ago. And on top of it, there’s that foam finger that Ms. Virus used as a sex toy.



Since Halloween City has the sign, “TEEN,” above the display, I ask you: you want your 13- or 14-year-old girl wearing that costume so she can let the world know she’s “open for business”? You do realize that the tongue stuck out on the animal depicted (and Cyrus’ now forever tongue stuck out pose for cameras) symbolizes oral sex, right? It would be more intellectually honest if you had your kid dress up as a hooker.

I realize that all kinds of people–adults and kids–go to these Halloween stores to buy all kinds of costumes. And Halloween City’s front window has signs reading both “KIDS COSTUMES” and “SEXY COSTUMES.”
The problem is that Halloween City apparently thinks these two categories are interchangeable.

A very interesting post from www.Vdare.com about the pilgrimage to Mecca. This follows this post about CAIR. This follows this article about American energy independence and preventing money from going to hostile countries such as Iran. For more about what you can do to get more involved click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.

2013 Hajj: And They're OFF! Diseases For All!

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By John Derbyshire on October 13, 2013 at 9:40pm

The 2013 Hajj is officially under way. Last year 3,161,572 people congregated in and around Mecca for the annual Muslim pilgrimage, a 55 percent increase over the number for ten years previously. (Click to enlarge the infographic below, from Alarabiya.net.)

In land area, Mecca at 500 sq. miles is slightly smaller than Nashville, Tennessee. Speaking as a deeply un-gregarious person, I find the thought of being in a town that size together with three million other visitors to be nightmarish, but of course devout Muslims have a different point of view.
Personal preferences and religious obligations aside, there are excellent reasons to avoid Mecca in Hajj season, as Rebecca Kreston points out on a Discover blog:

The Hajj is a powerfully holy and social event for Muslims. But it’s also unique from an epidemiological and public health standpoint: two to three million people from 70 countries meeting in one tiny place is the siren call for respiratory, water-borne and blood-borne microbial diseases.

Blood-borne? Yes: At one of the stations of the Hajj, male pilgrims get their hair shaved off.

Saudi officials require all barbers to be licensed though makeshift barbers still abound, waiting on roads for eager pilgrims with razors in hand. Pilgrims may also buddy up to shave each other’s scalps. These unlicensed barbers and pilgrims can often be found reusing unsterilized blades to communally head-shave Hajjees, a fabulous technique for transmitting blood-borne diseases.

Presumably some unknown number of pilgrims go home carrying AIDS along with their purified souls.
A greater threat is the genus of coronaviruses, one variant of which quite likely caused your last bad cold.

Also of great concern is the latest pathogen to emerge from seemingly nowhere, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Since 2012, this novel virus has been smoldering in hospitals throughout the Arabian Peninsula and Europe despite the best efforts of many physicians and health officials to extinguish its insidious spread.

(My italics.)
Hajj Mubarak, everybody!

Howard Zinn: Intellectual Moron

A timely post about from www.yaf.org about a historian in the public schools who disparages the U.S. in history including Christopher Columbus. This follows this post about a popular current song. In the meantime, you can get more involved if you like here and read an interesting book HERE.

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  Howard Zinn: Intellectual Moron

  Posted by Patrick Coyle

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  Howard Zinn died yesterday of a heart attack in Santa Monica, CA. Instead of reading a fawning piece from the mainstream media, we thought it would be helpful to offer another viewpoint. Foundation graduate and author, Dan Flynn, in his book, Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas exposes Zinn's flawed ideas:
  “Objectivity is impossible,” self-styled “peoples’ historian” Howard Zinn once remarked, “and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the human race; should serve justice in some way, then it requires that you make your selection on the basis of what you think will advance causes of humanity.”
  History serving “a social aim,” rather than chronicling the past in a detached manner, is what readers get in A People’s History of the United States. With any luck, “The People Speak,” the History Channel documentary based on the book will be, like so many Hollywood productions, unfaithful to the original. Given A People’s History of the United States’ infidelity to facts, this might be the only chance viewers have of seeing anything resembling an accurate retelling of history.
  Through Zinn’s looking-glass, Maoist China, site of history’s bloodiest state-sponsored killings, transforms into “the closest thing, in the long history of that ancient country, to a people’s government, independent of outside control.” The authoritarian Nicaraguan Sandinistas were “welcomed” by their own people, while the opposition Contras, who backed the candidate that triumphed when free elections were finally held, were a “terrorist group” that “seemed to have no popular support inside Nicaragua.” Admitting some human rights abuses, Zinn writes that Castro’s Cuba “had no bloody record of suppression.”
  Readers of A People’s History of the United States learn very little about history. They learn quite a bit about Howard Zinn. In fact, the book is perhaps best thought of as a massive Rorschach Test, with the author’s familiar reaction to every major event in American history proving that his is a captive mind long closed by ideology.
  If you’ve read Karl Marx, there’s no reason to read Howard Zinn. In fact, reading the most important line of The Communist Manifesto makes a study of A People’s History of the United States a colossal waste of time. The single-bullet theory of history offered by Marx–“The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle”–is relied upon by Zinn to explain all of American history. Economics determines everything. Why study history when theory has all the answers?
  Thumb through A People’s History of the United States and one finds greed motivating every major event. According to Zinn, the separation from Great Britain, the Civil War, and both world wars—to name but a few examples—all stem from base motives involving rich men seeking to get richer at the expense of other men.
  Zinn’s projection of Marxist theory upon historical reality begins with Columbus. According to Zinn, those following the seafaring Italian to the New World did so for one reason: profit. “Behind the English invasion of North America, behind their massacre of Indians, their deception, their brutality, was that special powerful drive born in civilizations based on private property,” maintains the octogenarian scribe.
  A materialist interpretation continues with the Founding. “Around 1776,” A People’s History informs, “certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the next two hundred years. They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits, and political power from the favorites of the British Empire. In the process, they could hold back a number of potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership.”
  Zinn sarcastically adds, “When we look at the American Revolution this way, it was a work of genius, and the Founding Fathers deserve the awed tribute they have received over the centuries. They created the most effective system of national control devised in modern times, and showed future generations of leaders the advantages of combining paternalism with command.” Rather than the spark that lit the fire of freedom and self-government throughout much of the world, he portrays the American Founding as a diabolically creative way to ensure oppression. If the Founders wanted a society they could direct, why didn’t they put forth a dictatorship or a monarchy resembling most other governments at the time? Why go through the trouble of devising a constitution guaranteeing rights, political participation, jury trials, and checks on power? Zinn doesn’t explain, contending that these freedoms and rights are merely a facade designed to prevent class revolution.
  Zinn paints antebellum America as a uniquely cruel slaveholding society subjugating man for profit. Curiously, the war that ultimately results in slavery’s demise is portrayed as a conflict of oppression too. Zinn writes, “it is money and profit, not the movement against slavery, that was uppermost in the priorities of the men who ran the country.” Rather than welcoming emancipation, as one might expect, Zinn casts a cynical eye towards it. “Class consciousness was overwhelmed during the Civil War,” the author laments, placing a decidedly negative spin on the central event in American history. America is in a lose/lose situation. The same thing, according to Zinn, caused both slavery and emancipation: greed. Whether the U.S. tolerates or eradicates slavery, its nefarious motives remain the same. Zinn’s jaundiced eye fails to see the real issues surrounding the Civil War. Instead, he envisions the chief significance of the grisly conflict as how it allegedly served as a distraction from the impending socialist revolution.
  By the time the reader reaches World War I, Zinn begins to sound like a broken record. “American capitalism needed international rivalry—and periodic war—to create an artificial community of interest between rich and poor,” the Boston University emeritus professor of history writes of the Great War, “supplanting the genuine community of interest among the poor that showed itself in sporadic movements.” Yet another diversion to delay the revolution!
  “A People’s War?” is Zinn’s chapter on the war in which he served his country. Zinn suggests that America, not Japan, was to blame for Pearl Harbor by provoking the Empire of the Sun. The fight against fascism was all an illusion. While Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan may have been America’s enemies, Uncle Sam’s real goal was empire. Regarding America’s neutrality in the Spanish Civil War, Zinn asks:  “[W]as it the logical policy of a government whose main interest was not stopping Fascism but advancing the imperial interests of the United States? For those interests, in the thirties, an anti-Soviet policy seemed best. Later, when Japan and Germany threatened U.S. world interests, a pro-Soviet, anti-Nazi policy became preferable.” Reality is inverted. It’s not the Soviet Union that went from being anti-Nazi to pro-Nazi to anti-Nazi. Zinn projects the Soviet Union’s schizophrenic policies upon the United States. While Zinn awkwardly excuses the Hitler-Stalin Pact, he all but proclaims a Hitler-Roosevelt Pact.
  The reader learns that the Second World War was really about—surprise!—money. “Quietly, behind the headlines in battles and bombings,” Zinn writes, “American diplomats and businessmen worked hard to make sure that when the war ended, American economic power would be second to none in the world. United States business would penetrate areas that up to this time had been dominated by England. The Open Door Policy of equal access would be extended from Asia to Europe, meaning that the United States intended to push England aside and move in.” Yet, this didn’t happen. The English Empire expired, but no American Empire took its place. Despite defeating Japan and helping to vanquish Germany, America rebuilt these countries. They are now America’s chief economic rivals, not its colonies.
  The profit motive certainly is central to numerous major events in American history. The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Fort in 1848, for example, undeniably stands as the primary reason—alongside the favorable outcome of the Mexican War—for the subsequent population explosion in California. The Gold Rush is one of several historical occurrences that conform to Zinn’s overall thesis. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. For every major figure or event whose catalyst was economic interests, scores were sparked by some unrelated concern.
  To question Zinn’s method of analyses is not to say that economics does not influence events. It is to say that one-size-fits-all explanations of history are bound to be wrong more than they are right. History is too complicated to find a perfect fit within any theory. For the true believer, this inconvenience can be overcome. When fact and theory clash, ideologues choose theory. To the true believer, ideology is truth. Time and again, A People’s History of the United States opts to mold the facts to fit theory, leaving the reader to wonder what “people” he is referring to in the book’s title. Dishonest people? Left-wing people? Delusional people?
  “Unemployment grew in the Reagan years,” Zinn claims. Statistics show otherwise. Reagan inherited an unemployment rate of 7.5 percent. By his last month in office, the rate had declined to 5.4 percent. Had the Reagan presidency ended in 1982 when unemployment rates exceeded 10 percent, Zinn would have a point. But for the remainder of Reagan’s presidency, unemployment declined precipitously. While Zinn teaches history and not mathematics, one needn’t be a math whiz to figure out that 5.4 percent is less than 7.5 percent. Despite unleashing an economy that created nearly 20 million new jobs during his tenure, Reagan continues to be smeared by historians—and it’s not hard to figure out why. Reagan’s free market polices were anathema to Marxists like Zinn. Upset at the pleasant way things turned out—Reagan’s policies unleashed an economy that continuously grew from late 1982 until mid 1990—historians prefer to rewrite history.
  These are but a few of Zinn’s errors, which curiously seem to always bolster the left-of-center position. No error goes against the grain of the author’s general thesis. Every author makes mistakes. Zinn, it seems, would make less of them if he used his mind rather than his ideology to do his thinking.
  By now one might be thinking: On what evidence does Zinn base his varied proclamations? One can only guess. Despite its scholarly pretensions, the book contains not a single source citation. While a student in Professor Zinn’s classes at Boston University or Spelman College might have received an “F” for turning in a paper without documentation, Zinn’s footnote-free book is standard reading in scores of college courses.
  More striking than Zinn’s inaccuracies—intentional and otherwise—is what he leaves out.
  Washington’s Farewell Address, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and Reagan’s “tear down the wall” speech at the Brandenburg Gate all fail to merit a mention. Nowhere do we learn that Americans were first in flight, first to fly solo across the Atlantic, and first to walk on the moon. Alexander Graham Bell, Jonas Salk, and the Wright Brothers are entirely absent. Instead, the reader is treated to the exploits of Speckled Snake, Joan Baez, and the Berrigan brothers. While Zinn highlights immigrants that went into professions such as ditch-digging and prostitution, he excludes success stories like Alexander Hamilton, John Jacob Astor, and Louis B. Mayer. Valley Forge rates a single fleeting reference, while D-Day’s Normandy invasion, Gettysburg, and other important military battles are left out. In their place, we get several pages on the My Lai massacre and colorful descriptions of U.S. bombs falling on hotels, air-raid shelters, and markets during 1991’s Gulf War.
  How do readers learn about U.S. history with all these omissions? They don’t.
  Daniel J. Flynn is the author of A Conservative History of the American Left (Crown Forum, 2008) and Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (Crown Forum, 2004), from which this essay is adapted.

Tigres Del Norte - The Group that Performed at the D.C. Mall Amnesty Rally- Makes RACIST Claims!!!!!

A timely post about from www.Vdare.com about the group “Tigres Del Norte” that was in the D.C. mall amnesty rally. This follows this post about Ernesto “Che” Guevara. In the meantime, you can get more involved if you like here and read an interesting book HERE.



"Somos Mas Americanos" - We are More AmericanScratch the surface, and The National Question pervades every facet of American society. The entertainment world is no exception. In July of 2002, country-western singer Chad Brock was lambasted for what he said at a concert in Greeley, Colorado: “Why should we adapt? You are coming over to our country. We don’t speak Russian. We don’t speak Spanish. We speak English here.” [“Singer’s Remark Riles Hispanics,” Denver Post, July 9, 2002]And two years ago, rock guitarist Ted Nugent provoked the wrath of LULAC by saying, also in a concert, that “If you can’t speak English, get the #%!# out of America.” [VDARE.COM warning: link contains original verb.]What Brock and Nugent were saying—each in his own way--was that immigrants should learn English—a quite reasonable opinion shared by most Americans. What would happen, though, if a successful recording artist or group released a song that relegated some Americans to second-class status?Answer: Apparently nothing - if the group is composed of Mexican immigrants, who relegate gringos to second-class status in their own country. The song in question is “Somos Mas Americanos” [We are more American], sung by a group called Los Tigres del Norte. One of the results of the creeping bilingualism in the U.S.A. is the growth of a parallel Spanish media—practically unknown to most clueless English-speakers. “Somos Mas Americanos ” has spent a whole year on the record racks without controversy. I purchased my copy of “Uniendo Fronteras” in a Wal-mart in the state of Texas. You might ask your local Wal-mart why they sell anti-American music. “Somos mas americano,” sing the Tigres, “than the son of the Anglo-Saxon.... than every last one of the gringos.” If you haven’t heard of Los Tigres del Norte, well, they aren’t singing songs for you anyway. But they are singing about you. Based in California, the Tigres del Norte are Grupo Numero Uno in Norteño, a polka-based form of music from northern Mexico, famous for its story-song “corridos” [To see a photo of the Tigres click here].The nucleus of the group is formed by front-man Jorge Hernandez and his brothers, who migrated from Mexico to California in 1968. They were adopted by British impresario (and non-Spanish speaker) Art Walker, who encouraged them to electrify, modernize and commercialize their music. Walker’s Fama Records was the first Spanish-language record company on the West Coast. “Contrabando y Traición” [Contraband and Treachery], 1972-73, was the Tigres’ first big hit, as well as the first of the “narcocorrido” genre. (For more details, check out this article from the Silicon Valley paper Metro, “Tiger Tales.”) Just how big are the Tigres? Well, they’ve won a Grammy. They have earned 7 gold albums (sales of 500,000 or more), no small feat when you consider that Latin music sales only make up 4.6% as of the year 2000, last year for which full-year statistics are available. Last May, they received the “Latino spirit award” from Gray Davis, one of those “sons of the Anglo-Saxon” who happens to be governor of California. For now.They’ve been honored by the Smithsonian Institution. They are slated to receive the “Estrellas de la Gente” [Stars of the People] award at a big award shindig, “De La Gente Ritmo Latino,” in LA’s Kodak Theater, on October 25th. And, for the past year, the Tigres have received a free ride from the media since releasing “Somos Mas Americanos.” Not only were the Tigres - not even U.S. citizens, although they’ve lived in California for 34 years - unafraid to release this bitter piece of irredentist anti-gringo propaganda, but it's been a raving success. The song was released in August of 2001 on the Tigres’ album “Uniendo Fronteras” (“Uniting Borders”, but what they really mean is “Erasing Borders”.) “Uniendo Fronteras” did quite well, spending 3 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart. “Somos Mas Americanos” peaked last May at #12 on the Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay Chart, and at #39 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Tracks. (Both of these figures are based only on the album’s success in the U.S.) "Somos Mas Americanos" peaked at #7 on San Antonio’s KLEY. But it wasn’t only popular in the Southwest. It peaked at #3 on WARV (Richmond, Virginia) and WAGL (Lancaster, South Carolina). You might inquire how high it climbed on your local Spanish-language station. At a Tigres del Norte concert in the Houston Astrodome on February 24th, 2002, the song was apparently the audience favorite.For the benefit of VDARE.com readers, I present below my translation of “Somos Mas Americanos.” It doubtless fails to capture the literary quality of the original-language lyrics. But it does translate the content. That way, you can be aware of what your neighbors may be listening to on your local Spanish-language radio station:
“Somos Mas Americanos” (by Enrique Valencia)Windows Media Player sample at Yahoo.com
A thousand times they have shouted at me,
“Go home, you don’t belong here”
Let me remind the Gringo
That I didn’t cross the border, the border crossed me
America was born free—Man divided her
They drew the line so I would have to jump it
And they call me Invader
That’s a big error
They took eight states from us—who is the invader here?
I am a stranger in my own land
I don’t come to make war—I’m a working man
(Chorus)
If history does not lie, the Powerful Nation was seated here in glory
Composed of valiant warriors
Indians of two continents
Mingled with Spaniards
And if we go by the centuries
We are more American [“Somos Mas Americanos”]
We are more American
Than any son of the Anglo-Saxon
(Spoken)
They purchased from us, without money,
the waters of the Rio Bravo
They took from us Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado
California too, and Nevada
Even with Utah it was not enough—they also took Wyoming from us!
I am of Indian blood—I am Latino—I am Mestizo
We are of all colors and all occupations
And if we go by the centuries
Though it pains The Neighbor
We are more American
Than every last one of the Gringos
(Chorus)
[Original Spanish lyrics) ]

Ya me gritaron mil veces
que me regrese a mi tierra
Porque aqui no quepo yo
Quiero recordarle al gringo
Yo no cruce la frontera
La frontera me cruzo
America nacio libre
El hombre la dividio
Ellos pintaron la raya
Para que yo la brincara
Y me llaman invasor
Es un error bien marcado
Nos quitaron ocho estados
Quien es aqui el invasor
Soy extranjero en mi tierra
Y no vengo a darles guerra
Soy hombre trabajador
Y si no miente la historia
Aqui se sento en la gloria
La poderosa nacion
Entre guerreros valientes
Indios de dos continentes
Mezclados con español
Y si a los siglos nos vamos
Somos mas americanos
Somos mas americanos
Que el hijo de anglosajon
(hablado)
Nos compraron sin dinero
Las aguas del Rio Bravo
Y nos quitaron a Texas Nuevo Mexico, arizona yColarado, tambien volo
California y Nevada con Utah no se llenaron
El estado de Wyoming
Tambien nos lo arrebataron
Yo soy la sangre del indio
Soy latino soy mestizo
Somos de todos colores
Y de todos los oficios
Y si contamos los siglos
Aunque le duela al vecino
Somos mas americanos
Que todititos los gringos

To refute all the pseudo-historical nonsense in “Somos Mas Americanos” would require another article. Allow me however, to address one.The song’s assertion that “I didn’t cross the border, the border crossed me” is pure bunkum. The majority of Mexican-Americans in the U.S. today are NOT descended from the residents of the Southwest in the period from 1836—1853, when it passed (in phases) from Mexican to U.S. control. After all, the members of the Tigres themselves are immigrants from Mexico. And Mexicans have no more right to enter the U.S. than immigrants from Asia, Europe or anywhere else in the world. But just because this excuse for illegal immigration is bogus does not mean it is not influential. Far from it. False myths can function quite effectively as powerful motivations for mass movements. “Somos Mas Americanos” does not exist in a vacuum. The Tigres are not fringe, underground musicians. They are in the mainstream of contemporary Latino music. Immigration enthusiasts fixated on romantic images of the Ellis Island experience had better pay attention too . The difference between immigration a century ago and immigration now is so enormous as to amount to a difference in kind. Irving Berlin, an immigrant of that bygone era, wrote “God Bless America.”

Today, the immigrants in Los Tigres del Norte sing “Somos Mas Americanos.” And not only is the song uncontroversial - but they receive an award from the governor of California. How times have changed! American citizen Allan Wall has lived in Mexico since 1991,and is permitted to live and work there thanks to a legal work permit issued by the Mexican government.
VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his FRONTPAGEMAG.COM articles are archived here. Readers can contact Allan Wall at allan39@prodigy.net.mx

A timely post about from www.yaf.org about Ernesto “Che” Guevara. This follows this post about some problems with contemporary music. In the meantime, you can get more involved if you like here and read an interesting book HERE.

No More Che Day 2013

October 09, 2013

Che Guevara was an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose Communism on countries throughout Latin America, Che Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads that executed thousands of men, women, and children.
For decades, the Left tried to glorify murderers and thugs like Lenin, Mao, and even Stalin. They are discredited today because people know about their evil deeds. Che is more obscure. He is one notorious figure who is idolized by the Left and hailed as a "hero," yet most students never learn the truth about his cult of violence.
Use the anniversary of Che's death on October 9 to educate the campus community about Che's atrocities.  
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The Messages in Today's Top Music

A timely post about from www.thesource4ym.com about some problems with contemporary music. This follows this post about Texas lawmakers being a lot less conservative than the media portrays it. In the meantime, you can get more involved if you like here and read an interesting book HERE.

Youth Culture Window

The Messages in Today’s Top Music
A Quick Survey of Billboard’s Current Top 10An article from David R. Smith at TheSource4YM.com
9/20/2013

There are several consistent messages in today’s most popular music. At (or near) the top of the charts, one can usually find songs about sexuality, lost love, or vanity in various forms. Those are the “go-to” topics for many artists these days.

So, is there a way to manage those messages?

The songs at the top of the charts this week sound very different, musically. They include rock, R&B, rap, dance, and even folk songs. However, several of the songs have ideas that have been heard before, over and over again. In other words, different sound, same message.

Here is a brief look at four of this week’s biggest songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart in order of rank and popularity. See if you can spot the familiar messages embedded in them.

#1 Wrecking Ball (by Miley Cyrus)
How do you follow up one of the most-talked about moments in the history of television? If you’re Miley Cyrus, you find a wrecking ball…and lose your clothes.

By now, much of the world (including her former fiancé) is tired of hearing about Miley Cyrus “twerking” at the 2013 MTV VMAs or seeing her wild/erotic antics like frequently going commando in public. But the We Can’t Stop star has no intention of fading into the background of culture. Miley’s latest offering to humanity, Wrecking Ball, is sitting at the top of the charts and is as weird as it is popular.

The lyrics for Wrecking Ball are harmless enough, basically revolving around the theme of lost love (which is a popular one these days). Over and over again, Miley despairs, “you wrecked me” while leaking tears from her eyes.

But the music video is anything but typical. It’s been seen well over 100 million times and features a nude Cyrus swinging back and forth on a wrecking ball licking a sledge hammer.

You read that correctly.

As Jonathan noted in his blog, the video’s images are turning off a lot of people. One person who posted a comment said, “Miley is white trash. The end.” Another claimed, “This is too much. I feel like I’m watching porn. And I’m totally not interested her body.” A third asks, “Who actually licks a hammer in real life?”

But Miley is right where she wants to be: on top. If a hyper-sexualized image or message is required to keep her there, it’s a safe bet she’ll keep on providing one…just like the next sex-focused artist, below.

#4 Blurred Lines (By Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell)
This song, performed by the son of TV’s Growing Pains’ star Alan Thicke, has been on the charts for 22 weeks, spending 12 of those weeks in the top spot. Blurred Lines was probably the most-played song of the summer (Jonathan wrote about it this summer in his article, The Naked Truth), and one of the most-talked about songs in history…for several reasons.

First, the song is really catchy (and features a couple of big names alongside of Thicke). Second, the song’s lyrics, about blurring the lines of a physical relationship, are incredibly risqué. Here’s just one excerpt from the hit tune:

You the hottest bitch in this place
I feel so lucky Hey, hey, hey
You wanna hug me Hey, hey, hey
What rhymes with hug me? Hey, hey, hey
I hate these blurred lines
I know you want it I know you want it
I know you want it
But you're a good girl
The way you grab me
Must wanna get nasty
Go ahead, get at me
But it’s the song’s music video that really makes people’s jaws drop to the floor. The “clean” version focuses on the raw sides of sensuality and female objectification: guys gawking at scantily-clad ladies prancing in front of them, lots of provocative dancing, and a large, chromed message that reads “ROBIN THICKE HAS A BIG D.”

I wonder what the D stands for?

But the song also has an “unrated” version of the music video. In this rendering, which we won’t link, those prancing girls are topless, the provocative dancing is even more celebrated, and we find out what the D actually stands for.

It’s not “dog.”

Again, the reaction to this song has been mixed. While there’s no doubt the song is on millions of people playlists, one online video forces young people to ask hard questions about the song’s appropriateness.

More on that video in a moment; there are two more songs in the Top 10 we need to quickly dissect.

#6 Holy Grail (by Jay Z featuring Justin Timberlake)
This collaboration between Justin Timberlake and Jay Z has been on the charts for 10 weeks, and peaked at #4. It’s down two spots as of this writing, and that’s probably a good thing. The lyrics are littered with vulgarities and slurs, as evidenced by this excerpt from the first verse:


Blue told me remind you n****s
F**k that s**t y'all talking 'bout, I'm the n***a
Caught up in all these lights and cameras
But look what that s**t did to Hammer
Go******t I like it
Bright lights is enticing but look what it did to Tyson
All that money in one night, thirty mill for one fight
But soon as all the money blows, all the pigeons take flight
F**k the fame, keep cheating on me, what I do, I took her back
Fool me twice, that's my bad, I can't even blame her for that
Enough to make me wanna murder, momma please just get my bail
I know nobody to blame, Kurt Cobain, I did it to myself
That’s a lot of asterisks.


If you read the rest of the song’s lyrics, you find that the song is about Jay Z’s ongoing struggle with success. He rattles off a list of pitfalls that accompany success and fame in our culture: “psycho b**ches in my lobby,” “haters in the paper,” and being forced to put “curtains all in my windows.”

But I doubt all these setbacks will keep Jay Z from creating chart-topping music. He’s grown too accustomed to the money and the “applause”…just like this final artist, below.

#7 Applause by Lady Gaga
Applause is Lady Gaga’s latest single, and when she performed it to open the 2013 MTV VMAs, she did so in a revealing wardrobe that kept shrinking as the song went on. Her attire in the music video suffers the same fate.

But it’s the song’s narcissistic message that’s front and center. She blatantly tells the world that she lives for the approval of others. Is she being cynical? On September 18th she tweeted, “Applause is a very meaningful song to me, because it addresses what many think of celebrities today, that we do it for the attention.”

Funny, until I read that tweet, I didn’t catch the sarcasm. Take a look:

I live for the applause, applause, applause
I live for the applause-plause
Live for the applause-plause
Live for the way that you cheer and scream for me
The applause, applause, applause

Give me that thing that I love (I'll turn the lights on)
Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch (make it real loud)
Give me that thing that I love (I'll turn the lights on)
Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch (make it real loud)

(A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E) Make it real loud
(A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E) Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch
(A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E) Make it real loud
(A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E) Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch
The rest of the song’s lyrics echo the same self-gratifying message. Lady Gaga basically tells the world to go, well, gaga, over her. Or does it?

Managing the Messages
I don’t want to give the idea that ALL music at the top of the charts has a negative message embedded in it just because two of them focus on sex and two others focus on pride and worldliness. There are exceptions to this norm, for instance, the song sitting in the #2 position this week. Katy Perry’s Roar, a song about persevering in the face of life’s obstacles, offers a message that’s so powerful we developed a MUSIC DISCUSSION resource based on it.

Earlier, I said we’d discuss this online video in greater detail. Do yourself – and the teenagers in your life – a favor and invest the necessary 8 minutes and 59 seconds it takes to watch it.

Seriously. Click the link. Watch the clip. It’s that important.

Hopefully, you made some key observations about how the producers chose to interact with the students in this video. I think the way this video is laid out can help us manage the messages embedded in these four songs…and any song that comes our way in the future.

1. The producers listened to the song and watched the music video WITH the teens. Over and over again, these Youth Culture Window articles that have focused on music harp the same practice: take the time to explore new music together. With online search engines like Google and YouTube, it’s simple to find out all you need to know about a song and whether it’s appropriate for the teenagers in your life.


2. The producers ask the teens hard questions that lead them to ask hard questions of themselves. Even though they got to some deep questions, note that the producers started out pretty shallow, asking easy questions to get the young people comfortable. They moved from “Did you like it?” and “How did it make you feel?” to more insightful questions about appropriateness, meaning, and even, sexual ethics. But note how the young people began to ask their own questions. Most of them were coming to the (right) answer just because they were forced to think through some well-formulated questions. Use the same strategy in your conversations. This helps create a worldview through which your teenagers will view all songs.


3. The producers made the young people think about the impact this song has on them and others. Isn’t this what we’re trying to achieve when it comes to our relationship with teenagers (whether as parents or youth workers)? The producers forced the young people to come to grips with the realities of female degradation, personal hypocrisy, and the message’s influence on other/younger viewers. In short, the producers made the young people think. When they were given the time to do that, most of the young people produced some pretty solid logic.

So many messages these days are so sneaky. When we let them encroach upon our teenagers, the damage they cause can be great. Make sure to use helpful tools, like search engines and The Source for Youth Ministry’s MUSIC DISCUSSIONS page, to stay abreast of new music and its influence. They go a long way toward helping you manage the message in today’s music.



David R. Smith is a 15-year youth ministry veteran who helps youth workers and parents through his writing, training, and speaking. David specializes in sharing the gospel, and equipping others do the same. He co-authored his first book this year, Ministry By Teenagers. David provides free resources to anyone who works with teenagers on his website, DavidRSmith.org. David resides with his wife and son in Tampa, Florida.