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Haiti, Islamic Relief, UNICEF & the Scientologists

While Israel was one of the first countries to deploy to Haiti to help relief efforts there–and, in fact, the Israeli mobile unit set up on a football field is essentially the only working hospital in Haiti–extremist Muslims and the Church of Scientology are engaged in far weaker efforts in Haiti that are somewhat frightening.

This Equals This

(Islamic Relief = Islamic Terror Artwork by David Lunde)

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This for Israel is good to be seen in a positive light by the media… but I’m sure it’s back breaking. They always pay in blood. What they are doing isn’t about faith in their religion… it is grunt work I’m sure. As for the cultish stuff being pushed that is noted in Debbie's post… wtf is wrong with these trolls? it’s a frigg’n disaster… not a marketing opportunity. for certain you see a moment to shine in the international community, but your objective is saving lives, not conversion. Saving lives for public relations is fine, as long as you are saving lives and not using a soap box when people are dying.

Iran ordered attack on Israeli convoy, smuggled explosives with diplomats

Was Ali-Muhammadi actually assassinated by Israel? According to some sources Israel would have no reason because the scientist was not involved in creating weapons. If Iran wasn't creating nuclear weapons then why would Israel need to kill him?Jordanian bombs squad members inspect the site where a bomb targeted a convoy of cars from the Israeli Embassy in Amman, Jordan, Thursday.

In the wee hours of last Friday morning, I posted about a roadside bomb attack on a convoy taking Israeli embassy employees home for the weekend from Amman, Jordan. Sources close to Jordan's General Intelligence Department are now reporting that the attack was ordered by Iran.

The sources said the GID was investigating the possibility that the explosives used in the attack had been smuggled into the kingdom by Iranian diplomats.
The attack itself was apparently carried out by local al-Qaida supporters who received money and explosives from Iran, the sources said.

On Monday, Al-Arabiya reported that an Amman taxi driver was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the bombing.

According to the sources, the GID believes that the attack came in response to the killing of Iranian scientist Prof. Massoud Ali Muhammadi in Teheran last week. Ali Muhammadi was killed by a remote-controlled bomb on a motorcycle.
On Monday, Iran's Interior Minister Mostafa Muhammad Najjar vowed to take revenge on Israel over Ali-Muhammadi's assassination.

Israel's ambassador in Jordan, Yaakov Rosen (standing), shakes hands with Omar Nadif, Jordan's deputy ambassador in Israel.


President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being behind the assassination, which he said had been carried out in "Zionist style."

The sources in Amman pointed out that the attack on the Israeli diplomatic convoy had been carried out in a way similar to the assault on the slain Iranian professor.

"We can see Iran's fingerprints on the roadside bombing," the sources said. "The investigation is continuing in various directions."

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According to some sources Israel would have no reason because the scientist was not involved in creating weapons.

Alimuhamadi the theoretical physics professor who was not involved in Iran's nuclear program was probably assasinated for supporting Moussavi.... or was he?

Iran seems very determined in believing it was Israel that killed him... and if they do believe that then there has to be a reason Israel did this... and that is:

IRAN WAS VERY CLOSE TO HAVING THE BOMB!

But then it gets even better.

The sources said the GID was investigating the possibility that the explosives used in the attack had been smuggled into the kingdom by Iranian diplomats.
The attack itself was apparently carried out by local al-Qaida supporters who received money and explosives from Iran, the sources said.
On Monday, Al-Arabiya reported that an Amman taxi driver was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the bombing.
According to the sources, the GID believes that the attack came in response to the killing of Iranian scientist Prof. Massoud Ali Muhammadi in Teheran last week. Ali Muhammadi was killed by a remote-controlled bomb on a motorcycle.
...
The sources in Amman pointed out that the attack on the Israeli diplomatic convoy had been carried out in a way similar to the assault on the slain Iranian professor.
"We can see Iran's fingerprints on the roadside bombing," the sources said. "The investigation is continuing in various directions."
...
Last year three Hamas activists were sentenced in Jordan to five years in prison for conducting surveillance of the Israeli Embassy in Amman.

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compound this with the CIA double agent issue in Jordan. I would say the kingdom is becoming unstable. The people in Jordan think their government is in cahoots with Israel. and indeed they are. I wouldn't be surprised to see Jordan become a Palestinian state soon.

Grand Mufti Of Syria thinks he is a Gharkad tree - Taqiyya!

"Mohammed said in his Hadith: 'The Hour [Day of Resurrection] will not arrive until you fight the Jews, [until a Jew will hide behind a rock or tree] and the rock and the tree will say: Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!

Only the Gharkad tree, would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews."

Taqiyya: "If the Prophet Mohammed had asked me to deem Christians or Jews heretics, I would have deemed Mohammed himself a heretic," Sheikh Ahmed Hassoun, the Mufti of Syria, was quoted as telling a delegation of American academics visiting Damascus.

Hassoun, the leader of Syria's majority Sunni Muslim community, also told the delegates that Islam was a religion of peace, adding: "If Mohammed had commanded us to kill people, I would have told him he was not a prophet."

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Adolf Hitler?

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Liza Minnelli was hot?

Liza Minnelli and her mother Judy Garland

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oh my... I didn't realize she ever looked like that.

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Henry Ford Raising Wage May Give China Tip on Worker Prosperity - Bloomberg.com

Increasing the spending power for the Chinese wouldn't just help America. It would help the lives of the Chinese.

Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- “Little” Xie says he wants to own one of the autos he helps build at Ford Motor Co.’s assembly plant in the Yangtze River city of Chongqing. With his mortgage payment taking about 60 percent of his 2,000 yuan monthly pay, that won’t happen soon.

“It isn’t even worth talking about company incentives to help buy a car, since I can’t afford one in the first place,” said Xie, 28, a six-year Ford employee, as he approached the factory gates for his night shift. Xie, whose nickname comes from his youthful age, asked that his full name not be used.

Higher wages for people like Xie would help resolve China’s biggest economic challenge: shifting away from growth fueled by exports and investment and moving toward an economy driven more by domestic consumers. China’s communist leaders might learn a lesson about how to create a more prosperous working class from American industrialist Henry Ford.

The founder of the auto manufacturer that bears his name generated headlines around the world in January 1914 by doubling the average autoworker’s pay to $5 a day. The move made Ford’s Model T more affordable, created a more stable workforce and helped stoke the growth of the U.S. middle class, according to Bob Kreipke, the historian for the Dearborn, Michigan-based company.

“This allowed people to increase their buying power and, at the same time, they produced a better product,” Kreipke said.

Consumer Culture

Low wages in the world’s third-largest economy are slowing the rise of a consumer culture that Premier Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao have said China needs to maintain expansion at the 8 percent a year that will generate jobs for its 1.3 billion people. The current growth pattern is “unsustainable,” Wen said Dec. 27.

That hasn’t stopped China’s auto industry from booming, with sales last year of 13.6 million vehicles, eclipsing the U.S. as the world’s top market for the first time, according to figures from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers in Beijing. The surge in purchases was spurred partly by government subsidies to help farmers buy autos.

Encouraging higher pay might help sustain the boom and boost consumption, which currently accounts for about 35 percent of China’s gross domestic product, compared with 70 percent in the U.S. It would also help ease income gaps between the rich and poor, which are higher than those in South Korea and Taiwan at similar stages of development and have led to riots and other labor unrest.

Buying Power

Ford’s $5 daily pay allowed an employee to buy a Model T that cost $440 with the equivalent of about four months’ wages. Chinese factory workers averaged 24,192 yuan ($3,544) a year in 2008, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics in Beijing, so it would take more than three years worth of wages for them to afford the cheapest car advertised on the company’s Chinese-language Web site: a four-door hatchback with a 1.3 liter engine listed for 78,900 yuan.

While the auto company declined to comment on worker pay, Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, Ford’s chief economist, said Ford projects growth 10 years into the future for the countries where it operates, and it sees China’s economy in a period of expansion characterized by rapid rises in employee compensation similar to South Korea’s economy starting in the 1960s.

“We are at a situation where wages are moving up and doubling in a very short period of time,” Hughes-Cromwick said in a telephone interview from Dearborn. “We do expect takeoff to generate pretty substantial wage gains.”

Boost Pay

One way China’s government might help boost pay would be to raise the value of the yuan, said Nicholas Lardy, who studies the Chinese economy as a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.

U.S. and European officials have said China keeps the yuan artificially low to boost sales in foreign markets. An undervalued currency encourages manufactured exports at the expense of developing the more labor-intensive service sector, depressing job growth and keeping wages low, Lardy said.

“Appreciation would lead to more rapid growth in the demand for labor and thus to more employment growth and more wage growth,” he said.

China should also spend more on education for peasants and migrants to raise their skill levels and employment prospects, said Xiao Geng, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy in Beijing.

Rural Migrants

Henry Ford employed some of the millions of eastern European immigrants who poured into the U.S. a century ago, as well as migrants from the South and Midwest lured by high wages. China’s leaders must deal with hundreds of millions of rural laborers coming to cities, who put downward pressure on salaries.

“Unskilled workers are condemned for generations to low wages,” Xiao said.

Even a skilled worker like Gong -- who also asked that his full name not be used -- said he makes only 6 yuan ($0.88) an hour as a welder at Ford’s Chongqing plant, 9 yuan an hour for overtime.

“I have a dream of someday buying a car,” said Gong, 29, as he walked home in the rain after a 10-hour shift. “I guess it will take six years of saving.”

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Yikes! US presidential couple united in wax in London

A waxwork of U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama joins that of her husband U.S. President Barack Obama, marking the first anniversary of his inauguration as U.S. President, at Madame Tussauds in London, on Tuesday. Photo: AP.

A wax figure of Michelle Obama was unveiled at Madame Tussauds in London on Tuesday where America’s First Lady will temporarily flank her husband to mark the first anniversary of his inauguration, the museum said.

Visitors can meet the pair in a “painstaking” recreation of the Oval Office, complete with a desk replica and photographs of the Obama family.

A spokeswoman said President Obama had been one of the museum’s “most popular figures” since his wax likeness went up a year ago.

“Now they get to meet not just Mr President but the Mrs too, and we’re sure it will be a big hit,” she said.

Michelle, portrayed in a stylish purple dress, will, however, move on in mid-April to find a permanent home in Madame Tussauds’ new museum in Bangkok.

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Rachel’s tomb and the protection of Jewish holy sites « Yourish.com

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977.

Part IV : Civilian population #Section I — General protection against effects of hostilities #Chapter III — Civilian objects
Article 53 — Protection of cultural objects and of places of worship
Without prejudice to the provisions of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 14 May 1954, and of other relevant international instruments, it is prohibited:

(a) to commit any acts of hostility directed against the historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples;

(b) to use such objects in support of the military effort;

(c) to make such objects the object of reprisals.

If, as Dickens wrote, “The law is a ass …” then, pardon the crudity, international law is donkey crap. Once upon a time, Rachel’s Tomb – where, according to tradition, the Matriarch, Rachel is buried in Bethlehem – was, as depicted in the mural below, located in an open area.

Mural of Kever Rachel

Now, however, it is surrounded by Israel’s security fence. The famous dome is no longer visible to approaching whorshippers.

Why all of the fortifications? During Arafat’s “Aqsa intifada,” two Israeli soldiers, Shahar Vekret and Danny Darai were killed by snipers while guarding the sacred shrine.

Even now, with the presence of the security fence to protect Rachel’s tomb, there’s an Arab apartment building with a clear view (or should I write “shot”) of the entrance to the tomb. So Israel placed camoflauge netting in front of the building to obscure the view.

I don’t recall any UN organization raising a hue and cry over this desecration of a Jewish holy site. Former Sen. George Mitchell in an anodyne statement in his famous report expressed his regret that violence occurred at Rachel’s Tomb and other religious place, but he failed to condemn the deliberate targeting of a Jewish holy site by the Palestinians.

Why did Israel station soldiers at Rachel’s tomb? Because Israel recalled what happened to Joseph’s tomb, just a few years earlier. Charles Krauthammer wrote at the time:

One occurred in Nablus, an Arab town under P.L.O. control. There is in Nablus a Jewish religious site, Joseph’s Tomb. Under the P.L.O.-Israeli peace accords, it remained a tiny enclave peopled by devout Jews and, for protection, a few Israeli soldiers. On Sept. 26, it was attacked by a Palestinian mob throwing firebombs. Six Israelis were killed. Many prayer books were burned.

This is the Middle Eastern equivalent of a mob of whites torching a black church, killing parishioners and burning its holy objects. Yet, while the tunnel received enormous coverage complete with diagrams, the desecration at Joseph’s Tomb, if reported at all, merited at most a few sentences. And a similar Palestinian attempt to firebomb Judaism’s third holiest shrine, Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem, received in the major American press no mention at all, save one in the New York Times–in a picture caption on page 12!

One can debate the merits of the Jerusalem tunnel. But whatever one’s view, it is hard to have a debate when one cannot get the facts straight. And one cannot get the facts straight because of the double standard in Middle East coverage that impugns Israel’s every move and patronizes Palestinians with endless free passes.

International law that is supposed to serve all the world, seems to be a tool in the hands of those who would erase the Jewish identity from the world.

Has any international body condemned the recent Iraqi efforts to purge Ezekiel’s tomb of any mention of his Jewishness?

Recently “Ur,” a local Iraqi news agency, reported that a huge mosque will be built on top of the grave by Iraq’s Antiquities and Heritage Authority, while Hebrew inscriptions and ornaments are being removed from the site, all as part of renovations.

Prof. Shmuel Moreh of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, winner of the 1999 Israel Prize in Middle Eastern studies and chairman of the Association of Jewish Academics from Iraq, speaking to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, confirmed the report.

“I first heard the news of tomb desecration from a friend of mine who is a German scholar. After visiting the site he called me and said that some Hebrew inscriptions on the grave were covered by plaster and that a mosque is planned to be built on top of the tomb. He told me that he found the changes at the tomb disturbing and warned me that I’d better act quickly, before any irreversible damage will be inflicted,” Moreh said.

“I had contacted Mr. Shelomo Alfassa, US director of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries, and told him about this situation. Then I saw the report from the Ur news agency, mentioning the decision of the Antiquities and Heritage Authority to build a mosque and to erase the Hebrew inscriptions and ornaments,” Moreh said.

Ynet adds:

An application has also been made to the UNESCO headquarters, which is responsible for maintaining the religious character of holy sites.

Good luck with that. And don’t expect this desecration to get reported much.

Shortly after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, the looting of Iraq’s museums was the source of much outrage. Of course then, the target was obvious: President Bush’s ill considered war to remove Saddam Hussein from power. All the usual international suspects used the opportunity to berate the President for one more breach of their sensitivities. But those same sensitivities don’t seem operative when it’s Jewish history that’s being erased.

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Big Furry Dyke Sasquatches

Massive sculpture by feminists and lesbians involves Sasquatch and Bigfoot.

( Rumor has it that Robert Crumb just couldn't stop sucking his thumb when he heard about this: )

Allyson Mitchell’s newest installation presents an epic gathering of figures, each one a monumental symbol of female brains, brawn and sexuality – a community of Lady Sasquatches*! The free standing, sculptural works by this Toronto-based artist marry feminist theory with fun fur. Mitchell symbolizes the mythical feminine as something not easily captured or domesticated, or harnessed to sell, yet undeniably powerful and attractive. Ladies Sasquatch is organized and circulated by the McMaster Museum of Art and Curated by Carla Garnet. ”

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Ron Paul Newsletters Contain Racial and Homophobic Ranting

I can't wait to see those newsletters in the Smithsonian. decades of abuse have a way of piling up. glad someone finally aggregated the hatred together.

An article published in The New Republic offers a more-detailed account of Ron Paul's controversial newsletters which have been a point of contention between Paul supporters and those who oppose his candidacy.

Ron Paul's famous news glib was using the term Ad Hominem, but the only argument I hear his supporters use is that. Can anyone really justify his abuse here and if he was simply naive and out of touch then why would we want this quality to lead our country in the first place. As the price of Gold falls... and yes it did... so will Ron Paul's historic reputation. I doubt we will ever see these people apologize for supporting this guy. Ron Paul supporters hope that they can just stop talking about him and support their next horse with the same values. Be sure to Ron Paul up every month and lay that corpse out for them to see their folly. Let it be remembered that they enabled injustice. Be vigilant.

The New Republic piece, written by James Kirchick and sub-titled, "The bigoted past of Ron Paul" examines various newsletters published under several titles, including Ron Paul's Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report, The Ron Paul Survival Report, and The Ron Paul Investment Letter. Some form of a Ron Paul newsletter seems to have been published since 1978, after Dr. Paul was first elected to Congress.

According to the article, the various newsletters were published by the Foundation for Rational Economics and Education (a Ron Paul-founded nonprofit organization) or by Ron Paul & Associates, of which Paul was a partner.

The newsletters after 1999 are archived and available online, but the earlier editions were tracked down by Kirchick for this article. While some of the articles are obviously written by Paul, others contain no by-line.

The reaction by Paul has been - at various times - a claim of "taking words out of context", ghost writers, and others "taking advantage" of Paul's name in a sort of literary hijacking. A complicating factor is that many of the unattributed articles are written in the first person, giving at least the implication that they are the words of Paul himself.

Kirchick summarizes his reading of the articles in this way:

But, whoever actually wrote them, the newsletters I saw all had one thing in common: They were published under a banner containing Paul's name, and the articles (except for one special edition of a newsletter that contained the byline of another writer) seem designed to create the impression that they were written by him--and reflected his views. What they reveal are decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews, and gays. In short, they suggest that Ron Paul is not the plain-speaking antiwar activist his supporters believe they are backing--but rather a member in good standing of some of the oldest and ugliest traditions in American politics.

The New Republic also re-prints a number of excerpts from the newsletters in a companion article, and provides PDF links to the newsletters themselves. Some key points:

Analysis of the Los Angeles riots of 1992:

Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided.

A 1990 newsletter describes Martin Luther King Jr. as a communist sympathizer and "a world-class adulterer" who "seduced underage girls and boys" and "replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration." In February of 1991, the civil rights leaders is referred to as "the x-rated Martin Luther King".

In June of 1990 the newsletter states:

I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.

In October of 1992, advice is given on how to best protect oneself from the "urban youth"; advice which encourages illegal activity:

"If you have to use a gun on a youth, you should leave the scene immediately, disposing of the wiped off gun as soon as possible. Such a gun cannot, of course, be registered to you, but one bought privately (through the classifieds, for example).

A solicitation letter for The Ron Paul Investment Letter and the Ron Paul Political Report - which is written on "Congressman Ron Paul" stationary and signed by Paul, includes the words:

I've been told not to talk, but these stooges don't scare me. Threats or no threats, I've laid bare the coming race war in our big cities. The federal-homosexual cover-up on AIDS (my training as a physician helps me see through this one.) The Bohemian Grove--perverted, pagan playground of the powerful. Skull & Bones: the demonic fraternity that includes George Bush and leftist Senator John Kerry, Congress's Mr. New Money. The Israeli lobby, which plays Congress like a cheap harmonica.

The same letter urges people to act now to send them their money, because the government was about to switch the American Dollar with "new money":

There's no time to waste. The new money may not come out until next year. Or it may be imposed tomorrow. You should subscribe today.

Kirchick spoke to the campaign prior to publishing the article and documents linked to here:

When I asked Jesse Benton, Paul's campaign spokesman, about the newsletters, he said that, over the years, Paul had granted "various levels of approval" to what appeared in his publications--ranging from "no approval" to instances where he "actually wrote it himself." After I read Benton some of the more offensive passages, he said, "A lot of [the newsletters] he did not see. Most of the incendiary stuff, no." He added that he was surprised to hear about the insults hurled at Martin Luther King, because "Ron thinks Martin Luther King is a hero."

Ron Paul's response is as follows:

The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed. I have never uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts.

In fact, I have always agreed with Martin Luther King, Jr. that we should only be concerned with the content of a person's character, not the color of their skin. As I stated on the floor of the U.S. House on April 20, 1999: ‘I rise in great respect for the courage and high ideals of Rosa Parks who stood steadfastly for the rights of individuals against unjust laws and oppressive governmental policies.’

This story is old news and has been rehashed for over a decade. It's once again being resurrected for obvious political reasons on the day of the New Hampshire primary.

When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several writers contributed to the product. For over a decade, I have publicly taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name.

Kirchick's response in summary:

In other words, Paul's campaign wants to depict its candidate as a naïve, absentee overseer, with minimal knowledge of what his underlings were doing on his behalf. This portrayal might be more believable if extremist views had cropped up in the newsletters only sporadically--or if the newsletters had just been published for a short time.

But it is difficult to imagine how Paul could allow material consistently saturated in racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and conspiracy-mongering to be printed under his name for so long if he did not share these views. In that respect, whether or not Paul personally wrote the most offensive passages is almost beside the point. If he disagreed with what was being written under his name, you would think that at some point--over the course of decades--he would have done something about it.

An MSNBC interview with the author can be seen in this video.

Previous coverage on DigitalJournal.com can be found here and here.

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But, whoever actually wrote them, the newsletters I saw all had one thing in common: They were published under a banner containing Paul’s name, and the articles (except for one special edition of a newsletter that contained the byline of another writer) seem designed to create the impression that they were written by him--and reflected his views. What they reveal are decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews, and gays. In short, they suggest that Ron Paul is not the plain-speaking antiwar activist his supporters believe they are backing--but rather a member in good standing of some of the oldest and ugliest traditions in American politics.

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The people surrounding the von Mises Institute--including Paul--may describe themselves as libertarians, but they are nothing like the urbane libertarians who staff the Cato Institute or the libertines at Reason magazine. Instead, they represent a strain of right-wing libertarianism that views the Civil War as a catastrophic turning point in American history--the moment when a tyrannical federal government established its supremacy over the states. As one prominent Washington libertarian told me, “There are too many libertarians in this country ... who, because they are attracted to the great books of Mises, ... find their way to the Mises Institute and then are told that a defense of the Confederacy is part of libertarian thought.”

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Martin Luther King Jr. earned special ire from Paul’s newsletters, which attacked the civil rights leader frequently, often to justify opposition to the federal holiday named after him. (“What an infamy Ronald Reagan approved it!” one newsletter complained in 1990. “We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”) In the early 1990s, newsletters attacked the “X-Rated Martin Luther King” as a “world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours,” “seduced underage girls and boys,” and “made a pass at” fellow civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy. One newsletter ridiculed black activists who wanted to rename New York City after King, suggesting that “Welfaria,” “Zooville,” “Rapetown,” “Dirtburg,” and “Lazyopolis” were better alternatives. The same year, King was described as “a comsymp, if not an actual party member, and the man who replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration.”

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While bashing King, the newsletters had kind words for the former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke. In a passage titled “The Duke’s Victory,” a newsletter celebrated Duke’s 44 percent showing in the 1990 Louisiana Senate primary. “Duke lost the election,” it said, “but he scared the blazes out of the Establishment.” In 1991, a newsletter asked, “Is David Duke’s new prominence, despite his losing the gubernatorial election, good for anti-big government forces?” The conclusion was that “our priority should be to take the anti-government, anti-tax, anti-crime, anti-welfare loafers, anti-race privilege, anti-foreign meddling message of Duke, and enclose it in a more consistent package of freedom.” Duke is now returning the favor, telling me that, while he will not formally endorse any candidate, he has made information about Ron Paul available on his website.

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The newsletters are chock-full of shopworn conspiracies, reflecting Paul’s obsession with the “industrial-banking-political elite” and promoting his distrust of a federally regulated monetary system utilizing paper bills. They contain frequent and bristling references to the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations--organizations that conspiracy theorists have long accused of seeking world domination. In 1978, a newsletter blamed David Rockefeller, the Trilateral Commission, and “fascist-oriented, international banking and business interests” for the Panama Canal Treaty, which it called “one of the saddest events in the history of the United States.” A 1988 newsletter cited a doctor who believed that AIDS was created in a World Health Organization laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland.

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