Mark

“moralist”: You might have missed the point of Anthony’s remark. Just as England (not the UK, which didn’t exist at the time), after having been America’s enemy in 1776, later became an ally, so Israel, after the Zionists tried to assassinate the U.S president, later became an ally. I replied that, on the contrary, Israel has always been an enemy. You wrote: “Whoever blesses the Jews will be blessed, and whoever curses the Jews will be cursed.” If that includes the Jews who run Israel, I’m going to Hell, LOL.

The attempt to assassinate Truman was one in a string of enemy-like acts of Zionists from 1947 to the present day. Click the link at the upper left of the Truman article to see some others.

Little known fact: Truman knew about Zionist terrorism first hand. If and when you have time: The (First) Attempted Assassination of President Truman (First because two years later a couple of pro-independence Puerto Ricans tried.)

Thanks! I fixed the original post.

Valedictorians of Yesteryear - Nat Turner hardly distinguishable from Thomas Jefferson. The American Spirit - Trump Derangement Syndrome at ARI.

Unfortunately Rand published nothing on immigration. In her posthumously published letters you can read about her effort to expedite the immigration of a former teacher. For what it's worth, she goes along with all the rules and regulations, never complaining about them. Eventually the woman was allowed in. "Ayn Rand on Immigration" examines the Q&A Michael quoted except it uses the tape recording instead of relying on Mayhew's paraphrase. As an aside, footnote 14 analyses Rand's reaction to the Hickman murder.

These days HBL stands for Harry Binswanger Letter. The change from List to Letter occurred when Binswanger went from email distribution to a website forum. It’s still subscription only, you must pay to read and post. Ellen writes that “on immigration policy, HBL isn't the lockstep place Mark seems to think it is.” She got “seems” from reading the post of a little viper on OL rather than my article and so she wouldn’t know what she’s talking about. Binswanger wrote: “I will either not vote, or vote for Hillary.” in an article titled “Contra Trump” publicly available on his website. I did not say it was in his Letter. I did say that in his Letter, the day before the election, Binswanger urged his subscribers to vote for Hillary. I made no statement about Letter subscribers agreeing with Binswanger. I made no statement about Binswanger not allowing them to express disagreement. A professional editor like Ellen must know that one sense of the word “doubtless”– despite its structure – is “presumably or very probably” (Oxford online dictionary). Three ARI people more than very probably voted for Hillary. Binswanger urged his readers to vote for Hillary, so assuming he was consistent he voted for Hillary. Brook said on his BTR show after the election: “... a lot of people voted for Donald Trump ’cuz they hated Hillary Clinton more ... and I understand that. I did not do that, but I understand that.” He also said he was “horrified” etc. etc. that Trump won. In a BTR before the election he said “I think it’s better that he [Trump] loses ...” Again, if Brook was consistent he voted for Hillary. As far as influence is concerned Brook and Binswanger are probably the top two people at ARI. As quoted in my article, Salmieri said outright that he voted for Hillary. After the cataract of vitriol Simpson, Binswanger, Brook, Ghate, Salmieri, and Journo poured on Trump during the course of the campaign – not to mention Peikoff saying that he deferred to Brook (the worst of the lot) about what he thought of Trump (see “Peikoff on Donald Trump” on ARI Watch) – doubtless all these miscreants voted for Hillary. I’ll replace or footnote the offending sentence with something like the above.

The reaction of Yaron Brook and Onkar Ghate to the election, preserved on ARI Watch: www.ARIwatch.com/TheAmericanSpirit.htm

Therefore his testimony is worthless. Let’s call it by its proper name, granting immunity in return for testimony is bribery. Prosecutors who grant a light sentence and future immunity to a crook in order to obtain from him the testimony they want ought to be tried for suborning a witness.

The Ayn Rand Institute has been promoting Jason Hill for over two years now. One of the articles on ARI Watch, “Immigration Enthusiasts,” used to have a footnote about him but after enough material accumulated I turned it into a separate article: The Ascension of Jason Hill

New on ARI Watch: They Know What They’re Doing

You can read about torture in theory and in practice ad nauseam in the following and the links therein: Torture and Intrinsicism If anyone here thinks he will be the one who determines who and who isn’t a monster, I got news for him, he won’t. Trump is very wrong on this issue. He backtracked only because, as he said, torture is against the law (and he wants to get the law changed). Fortunately, in this case, he will have Congress to contend with.

Even if Hillary magically turned into Ron Paul I would prefer Donald Trump. That said, obviously at times Trump needs to be straightened out. Another example besides Manaford today gonaford tomorrow: During one of the RNC debates Trump blurted out that as president he would torture people more severely than Bush. He immediately (the next day or soon after) retracted this statement. The following are my notes from the Right Web’s profile on Woolsey: James Woolsey is a former director of the CIA. He has supported several neoconservative groups, including the Committee on the Present Danger, the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, the Project for the New American Century, the Center for Security Policy. He defends the U.S. government’s extensive domestic surveillance program, including the phone-tapping program of the National Security Agency, and hates Snowden for alerting the public to its existence. He accused Snowden of providing “classified information to people who are enemies of the United States.” He blasted suggestions of giving Snowden amnesty and said he should be hanged. “He should be prosecuted for treason. If convicted by a jury of his peers, he should be hanged by his neck until he is dead,” Woolsey said in a 2013 interview. After the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015 Woolsey said Snowden was partly responsible. He claimed that the use of encryption by ISIS was due to Snowden’s leaks. (ArsTechnica responded: “... a bit far-fetched, given that terrorist organizations have been using encryption of various sorts for more than 15 years at least. And additional details shared by officials since the attack suggest that ... the encrypted communications provided early warning that an attack in France was imminent.”) He chairs the Leadership Council of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a pro-Israel group. Served on the board of advisors of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a spinoff of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and of the Jamestown Foundation. Woolsey champions President Obama in attacking the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria. In September 2014 he said the United States should commit ground troops. In an interview after the July 2015 nuclear deal between Iran he [without reason] claimed that “Iran was involved [in] ... the support to the terrorists that brought about 9-11.” Woolsey was an outspoken proponent of invading Iraq before 9/11. He supported the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the group founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan, and signed several PNAC open letters to government figures encouraging an aggressive military agenda. One such letter was to Clinton in 1998 which advocated the U.S. invade Iraq. After 9/11, Woolsey was among the first government advisors to call for ousting Hussein, joining Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle. He became a prominent media presence after 9/11, criticizing opponents of the Bush administration’s “War on Terrorism.” Frequent advisor to defense contractors and government panels. A former vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton (a big Pentagon contractor) and partner at the D.C. law firm Shea and Gardner. He served as chair of his firm Woolsey Partners, as venture partner and senior advisor to VantagePoint Venture Partners, chaired an advisory group of the private equity fund Paladin Capital Group, and served as counsel to the law firm Goodwin Procter. Critics have criticized Woolsey’s simultaneous employment in government and the private sector. In a March 2003 report about potential conflicts of interest of several DPB members, the Center for Public Integrity wrote: “Former CIA Director James Woolsey is a principal in the Paladin Capital Group, a venture-capital firm that, like Perle’s Trireme Partners, is soliciting investment for homeland security firms. Woolsey joined consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton as vice president in July 2002. The company had contracts worth more than $680 million in 2002.” After a tenure as CIA director during Clinton’s first term Woolsey rejoined the law firm of Shea & Gardner where he had first worked in 1973. Shea & Gardner represents a number of major corporate clients, including defense contractors Boeing and Lockheed Martin, and counts among its former employees Stephen Hadley, national security advisor during Bush’s second term. In 2003, the firm was registered as a foreign agent performing lobbying and legal services for the Iraqi National Congress. After Shea & Gardner became part of Goodwin Procter, the latter registered as a foreign agent for the Iraqi National Congress Support Foundation, which “contacted U.S. Government officials to refute allegations made against Ahmed Chalabi.”

Woolsey was part of the Bush administration’s gin up of the Iraq War, as was Powell. Yet Trump opposed that war. Who does Trump think his supporters are? Doing a dumb thing like hiring Woolsey is no way to win the election. Trump didn’t know what he was doing when he chose Pence, an establishment type, as his running mate. Trump, as president, risks being impeached – contrary to popular belief committing a crime is not required for impeachment – because Congress can stomach Pence as president. Sometimes Trump needs to be forced on track. Don’t give him cartes blanche. It would be hard to undo the Pence choice but it would be easy to dump Woolsey.

That was a hypocritical thing for Trump to tweet when he just "disappointed supporters by choosing James Woolsey, the corrupt former head of the CIA, as a campaign advisor for national defense" (quoting from the updated "Fear and Loathing of Donald Trump" on ARIwatch.com). Hopefully Woolsey will go the way of Manafort, Trump's earlier big mistake.

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https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/775000466304315393/video/1 The stumble is only part of the story. Hillary didn’t even begin to walk normally; she starts off wobbly. She was unbalanced from the first step. Obviously her handlers have come to expect her to require assistance. One handler took hold of her left forearm when she stepped off the curb and another took hold of her right forearm soon after. This was before she started to fall. Watch the video several times; it gets worse with each viewing.

You can make anyone look ridiculous or bizarre in a single still picture by a biased choice from among many still pictures. But Hillary looks creepy, really really creepy, in entire video segments lasting a quarter minute or more. Clearly there’s something very wrong with her.

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“Gary Johnson is a Complete Idiot” talk by Paul Joseph Watson

Neither segment is worth watching.

Richmond Times-Dispatch: "Johnson’s clear and consistent support for limited government, free enterprise, social tolerance and individual freedom appeals to our own philosophical leanings." And best of all, he'll siphon away more votes from Trump than from Hillary. Somehow I don’t think the Times-Dispatch’s newfound respect for free enterprise is sincere. Mark ARIwatch.com

Indeed he does, the Mont Pelerin Society. Milton Friedman was an original member. Recall that Friedman advised the U.S. government to withhold taxes, leading to the infamous W2 Form. It gave people the illusion that they were getting money instead of getting bled. He also instigated the “earned income tax credit” which is lowering wages. This is from Yaron Brook’s entry in Who’s Who on ARIwatch.com: Member of the Mont Pelerin Society since 2011 and ARI boasts of his membership on its website. The Mont Pelerin Society was founded in 1947 by Friedrich Hayek. Years later, in reaction to what it had become, Hans-Hermann Hoppe founded the Property and Freedom Society. The following is from “The Property and Freedom Society – Reflections After Five Years” by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. He describes the Mont Pelerin Society as it is today: “... the meetings are dominated and the range of acceptable discourse is delineated by [here begins a long list ending with] ... assorted international educrats and researchocrats in and out of government. No discussion in the hallowed halls of the Mont Pelerin Society of U.S. imperialism or the Bush war crimes, for instance, or of the financial crimes committed by the Federal Reserve Bank ... Not all of this can be blamed on Hayek ... He had increasingly lost control of the Mont Pelerin Society already long before his death in 1992.” ... “There had been skepticism concerning the Mont Pelerin Society from the beginning. Ludwig von Mises, Hayek’s teacher and friend, had expressed severe doubt concerning his plan simply in view of Hayek’s initial invitees: how could a society filled with certified state-interventionists promote the goal of a free and prosperous commonwealth? “Despite his initial reservations, however, Mises became a founding member of the Mont Pelerin Society. Yet his prediction turned out correct. Famously, at an early Mont Pelerin Society meeting, Mises would walk out denouncing speakers and panelists as a bunch of socialists.”

See www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform Mark ARIwatch.com

New on ARI Watch: The Limit of Absurdity about Yaron Brook’s recent remarks on Muslim terrorism in Europe. Just when you thought he couldn't sink any lower ...