HAPPY JULY 4TH, AS AMERICA CELEBRATES ITS 250TH BIRTHDAY

THERE will be all kinds of celebrations, for the nation that started as 13 different colonies, with slightly different populations and religious traditions, laws, etc. It grew to become a world power, the richest on earth, the freest of the great powers, where few starve, and a large proportion of the population lives comfortably. This weekend, everywhere celebrations, and on July 5, America plays Belgium in the World Cup. In another country the question of freedom may be on trial also this July 4 and 5. In Germany, it's largest political party according to polls, the Alternative for Germany party, will hold a convention in Erfurt. An NGO, allegedly funded by George Soros, may be sponsoring thousands of protestors to travel to the town of about 200,000 to disrupt the proceedings. The major government parties, CDU/CSU and SPD, moderate conservatives and mild social democrats keep losing voters as they led Germany into Green policies that killed much of its industry, and are now seeking to expand the military to provide jobs, while continuing the welfare state for millions of immigrants, many of whose children know little German. Will some 70,000 Soros type protestors succeed in disrupting the AfD convention on July 4-5? Or will freedom of speech and assembly be allowed for a political party the "respectables' dislike. The AfD is like the Trump party of Germany. No wonder the Soros crowd hates it. I hope we, and the Germans can celebrate this July 4 and July 5.       Hugh Murray

TRUMP VS THE DISRUPTORS OF DEMOCRACY

by HUGH MURRAY

            I heard the last few remarks by Cokie Roberts on National Public Radio this morning telling the NPR audience how bad it is for America internally and around the world to have images of these violent protests at Trump rallies, and, being a good liberal, blaming Trump for the violence.  On the leftist cable network, MSNBC, one commentator (perhaps Rachel Madow) blamed Trump for the Friday night troubles in Chicago because he had booked his rally at the University of Chicago.  Why there?  She assured viewers that that is not a Republican area, there are no Republicans there, and there has not been a Republican rally in that area that she could recall.  Just booking the Trump rally in that location was a provocation.  Therefore, Trump was causing trouble.  One TV reporter interviewed a Black who summarized that belief, “Trump does not belong here (in Chicago).”

            Trump is an American citizen, the leading candidate of a major political party running for President of the USA.  He has the right to visit and speak in any American city.  Chicago is also home to thousands of illegal aliens, invaders of the US, but the Democrats proclaim they have a right to be in Chicago or anywhere else in the US.

            For decades, many universities have become enclaves where conservatives are denied the right to express their opinions.  True, in the 1950s and 60s, Communists were barred from teaching and often even appearing on campus as an invited speaker.  The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in California led to an easing of restrictions, and the Left was permitted to have tables to display, give away and sell, material in support of the SNCC, CORE, and other civil rights organizations, and other causes.  But in the 60s, new restrictions on speech began to appear.  When Nobel Prize winner William Shockley asserted there were racial differences in intelligence, he was shouted off the stage, and Hans Eysenck, a distinguished psychologist, whose research demonstrated racial differences, he was punched in the face when he addressed a university audience in Australia.  As universities sought to increase Black student enrollment, often through affirmative action (admitting lesser and unqualified students), these students often became the foot soldiers to enforce left-wing conformity on campus.  By the 1990s, even a prominent Black advocate of equal opportunity and the end of affirmative action was shouted down and not permitted to speak at the U. of Wisconsin, Madison, and he had similar shut-downs at other campuses.  The Left demands a veto on what is said on campus.

            Bottom line, the Left, which often controls universities, does NOT believe in free speech.  The left wing “Free Speech Movement” was an example of bait and switch.  They wanted free speech for their groups; but once they had that, they sought to suppress those who disagreed with them.  And they have done so.  Even hiring faculty in the softer areas usually requires a Left wing certificate of approval.  Some of the lesser colleges require you write an essay on “diversity” as part of your application.  Today’s universities solve the denial of free speech with finesses – hate speech is not free speech.  If you oppose the invasion of America by millions of the  “undocumented,” you are condemned as a hater.  No speech for you.  Of course, in the past, if you supported invasion of the US, you were guilty of treason. (And you still are).  But that too is now considered hateful, and the university does not want that heard.

            So Trump hired a hall at the University of Chicago.  And the far-left wing millionaire, George Soros, with one of his many front-groups apparently helped organize the anti-Trump “protestors” in Chicago.  Several months ago out West Socialist Bernie Sanders had a rally aimed at the elderly, where he might present his message.  He was interrupted, and 2 bullying members of Black Lives Matter demanded the mike.  Sanders yielded the microphone – and his rally – to the BLM bullies!  If he cannot control his own rally, how will he be able to control the office of the Presidency?  The elderly had gone to hear Bernie on issues of the aged.  Instead, they heard from the anti-white (a group that rejects All Lives Matter) BLM.  Typical Left-wing bait and switch.  Shortly after, Trump announced he would not allow BLM to take over his rallies.

            The Left wants to take over all rallies.  They took over the Bernie Sanders rally.  They have interrupted Hillary Clinton at her rally.  Bernie appeased them.  Hillary appeased them.  Why appease these anti-white, pro-crime organizations?  Trump refuses to yield.  His supporters have fought back.  That is a “crime” to the Left, perhaps the only crime according to the Left.  Furthermore, there may be some protestors, but many are at Trump rallies to disrupt, opstruct, and prevent him from being heard.  They are disrupters, trying to prevent a major candidate for President from being heard.  They are trying to destroy the democratic process by denying people from hearing a major candidate.

            Naturally, one expects the Kokie Roberts (daughter of 2 Congresspersons, both Democrats) to attack Trump and defend the protestors.  One expects similar analysis from Left wing MSNBC, New York Times, WaPo, etc.  Sadly, however, other Republican candidates have attacked Trump for causing the trouble – Rubio, Kasich, and to some extent Cruz.  They utterly miss the point.  If Trump were to drop out of the running tomorrow, the Soros-funded Left-wing anarchists, communists, BLM, OWS, would suddenly try to shut down Cruz, then Rubio, then Kasich.  Soros is a convicted criminal in France.  He is accused of overthrowing various governments around the world with his NGOs.  He seeks to prevent Americans from choosing out President in a democratic manner.

            One hopes Trump will never yield to these thugs.  

Pat Buchanan on Subversion by NGOs

Pat Buchanan has another most interesting article posted on vdare.  Non-Governmental Organizations have rightly drawn the suspicion of various nations.  In the US, millionaire George Soros has funded numerous left-wing groups, as have once respectable foundations (see the book by Horowitz on his expose of the Ford Foundation and others with names implying they are above controversy).  Some NGOs do improve conditions; some are just political action groups to mobilize unofficial militias.  Buchanan recounts reasons to be skeptical of the NGOs.----Hugh Murray

NGOs As Agents of Subversion: Not Only In Israel, But Egypt And The Caucasus As Well

By Patrick J. Buchanan on March 23, 2015, 6:08 pm

See, earlier, Are Freedom House And The National Democratic Institute Really “Our Innocents Abroad”?

Though “Bibi” Netanyahu won re-election last week, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will still look into whether the State Department financed a clandestine effort to defeat him.

Reportedly, State funneled $350,000 to an American NGO called OneVoice, which has an Israeli subsidiary, Victory 15, that collaborated with U.S. operatives to bring Bibi down.

If we are now secretly pumping cash into the free elections of friendly countries, to dump leaders President Obama dislikes, Americans have a right to know why we are using Cold War tacticsagainst democracies.

After World War II, my late colleague on CNN’s “Crossfire,” Tom Braden, delivered CIA cash to democratic parties in Europe imperiled by communist parties financed from Moscow.

But that was done to combat Stalinism when Western survival was at stake in a Cold War that ended in 1991.

Hopefully, after looking into OneVoice and V15, the Senate will expand its investigation into a larger question: Is the U.S. using NGOs to subvert regimes around the world? And, if so, who decides which regimes may be subverted?

What gives these questions urgency is the current crisis that has Moscow moving missiles toward Europe and sending submarines and bombers to probe NATO defenses.

America contends that Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea and backing for pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine is the cause of the gathering storm in Russian-NATO relations.

Yet Putin’s actions in Ukraine were not taken until the overthrow of a democratically elected pro-Russian regime in Kiev, in a coup d’etat in which, Moscow contends, an American hand was clearly visible.

Not only was John McCain in Kiev’s Maidan Square egging on the crowds that drove the regime from power, so, too, was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.

In an intercepted phone call with our ambassador in Kiev, Nuland identified the man we preferred when President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted. “Yats,” she called him. And when Yanukovych fled after the Maidan massacre, sure enough, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was in power.

Nuland also revealed that the U.S. had spent $5 billion since 1991 to bring about the reorientation of Ukraine toward the West.

Now, bringing Ukraine into the EU and NATO may appear to Nuland & Co. a great leap forward for freedom and progress.

But to Russia it looks like the subversion of a Slavic nation with which she has had intimate ties for centuries, to bring Ukraine into an economic union and military alliance directed against Moscow.

And if NATO stumbles into a military clash with Russia, the roots of that conflict will be traceable to the coup in Kiev that Russians believe was the dirty work of the Americans.

If the U.S. had a role in that coup, the American people should know it and the Senate should find out whether Nuland & Co. used NGOs to reignite a Cold War that Ronald Reagan brought to an end.

And if we are now using NGOs as fronts for secret operations to dump over regimes, we are putting all NGOs abroad under suspicion and at risk.

Not in our lifetimes has America been more distrusted and disliked. And among the reasons is that we are seen as constantly carpingat governments that do not measure up to our standards of democracy, and endlessly interfering in the internal affairs of nations that do not threaten us.

In this new era, U.S. foreign policy elites have boasted of the “color-coded” revolutions they helped to foment in Belgrade, Kiev, Tbilisi. In 2003, we helped to overthrow the Georgian regime of Eduard Shevardnadze in a “Rose Revolution” that brought to power Mikheil Saakashvili. And Saakashvili nearly dragged us into a confrontation with Russia in 2008, when he invaded South Ossetiaand killed Russian peacekeepers.

What vital interest of ours was there in that little nation in the Caucasus, the birthplace of Stalin, to justify so great a risk?

Nor is it Moscow alone that is angered over U.S. interference in its internal affairs and those of its neighbor nations.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt has expelled members of U.S. NGOs. Beijing believes U.S. NGOs were behind the Occupy-Wall-Street-style street blockages in Hong Kong.

If true, these U.S. actions raise a fundamental question:

What is the preeminent goal of U.S. foreign policy?

Is it to protect the vital interests and national security of the Republic? Or do we believe with George W. Bush that, “The survival of liberty” in America “depends on the success of liberty in other lands.”

If it is the latter, then our mission is utopian–and unending.

For if we believe our liberty is insecure until the whole world is democratic, then we cannot rest until we witness the overthrow of the existing regimes in Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Belarus, most of the Arab and African nations, as well as Venezuela and Cuba.

And if that is our goal, our Republic will die trying to achieve it.

Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.

Ann Coulter on the IRS Scandal

I took this from frontpage.com.  An excellent article.  Hugh Murray

Tips for Right-Wingers on the IRS Scandal

June 6, 2013 By Ann Coulter 3 Comments

Instead of showing endless loops of IRS employees wasting taxpayer dollars line-dancing — Breaking news: Government employees waste millions of your dollars every single day! — I think it would be more useful for the public to hear a few crucial facts about the exploding scandal at the Internal Revenue Service.

At Tuesday’s congressional hearings on the IRS, witnesses provided shocking details about the agency’s abuse of conservative groups.

The IRS leaked the donor list of The National Organization for Marriage to their political opponents, the pro-gay-marriage Human Rights Campaign. This is not idle speculation: The documents had an internal IRS stamp on them. The list of names was then published on a number of liberal websites and NOM’s donors were harassed.

The IRS demanded that all members of the Coalition for Life of Iowa swear under penalty of perjury that they wouldn’t pray, picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood. They were also asked to provide details of their prayer meetings.

Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash. — who was ordered by the D.C. Circuit Court to pay more than $1 million to John Boehner in 2008 for the sleazy maneuver of publishing an illegally taped private conversation — blamed the conservative groups themselves. “Each of your groups was highly political,” he lectured them, noting that they wouldn’t have been asked any questions if they hadn’t requested tax-exempt status.

Even a fair-minded person — not to be confused with Jim McDermott — might hear about the IRS’ harassment of groups with “tea party,” “patriot” or “liberty” in their names and think: “How do we know the IRS wasn’t equally hard on left-wing groups?”

What might be more helpful than clips of IRS staff line-dancing would be for reporters, say at Fox News, to mention a few examples of the wildly partisan left-wing groups that the IRS has certified as tax-exempt.

Among the many left-wing groups with tax-exempt status are:

– ACORN (now renamed as other organizations, but all still tax-exempt), “community organizers” who engage in profanity-laced protests at private homes, dump garbage in front of public buildings and disrupt bankers’ dinners in order to get more people on welfare in order to destroy the capitalist system and incite revolution;

– Occupy Wall Street, which — in its first month alone — was responsible for more than a dozen sexual assaults; at least half a dozen deaths by overdose, suicide or murder; and millions of dollars in property damage;

– Media Matters for America, a media “watchdog” group that has never noticed one iota of pro-Obama bias in the media;

– Moveon.org, which ran ads comparing Bush to Hitler under its 501(c)(4) arm;

– The Center for American Progress, an auxiliary of the Democratic National Committee funded by George Soros and staffed by former Clinton and Obama aides to promote the Democratic agenda;

– The Tides Foundation, which funnels money to communist and terrorist-supporting organizations;

– The Ford Foundation, which has never found a criminal law that isn’t “racist.”

These groups are regarded by the IRS as nonpartisan community groups, merely educational, while dozens of patriotic, constitutional, Christian or tea party groups are still waiting for their tax exemptions.

That’s to say nothing of Planned Parenthood, PBS and innumerable other Democratic front-groups that not only have tax exemptions, but get direct funding from the government.

By contrast, the conservative groups being raked over the coals by the IRS actually were nonpartisan. The tea party forced sitting Republican senators off the ticket in Alaska and Indiana, and toppled “establishment” Republicans in Utah, Delaware, Nevada, Florida and Texas. Far from being a secretly pro-Republican group, the tea party has been a nightmare for Republicans.

Show me one instance where the Center for American Progress was more of a problem for Democrats than Republicans.

It is obviously in the interest of the left to show us liberal groups also harassed by the IRS, so it’s striking that they haven’t been able to produce one yet.

Instead, they hearken back to the Bush years to claim that the IRS once audited the NAACP, which is treated as ipso facto political harassment.

First of all, the NAACP doesn’t exactly have a sterling record of rectitude when it comes to organization funds. In the 1990s, the NAACP used tax-exempt contributions to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars of hush money to the mistress of then-executive director Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. — as detailed in enraged columns by Carl Rowan at the time.

Find a tea party organization that’s done that, and we’ll understand the IRS conducting a three-year proctology exam on the group.

Second, the Bush-era audit of the NAACP was prompted by a blindingly partisan speech given by NAACP chairman Julian Bond at an organization meeting in Philadelphia in July 2004. Bond attacked a slew of elected Republicans by name, denouncing the entire party as one whose “idea of equal rights is the American flag and Confederate swastika flying side by side.”

That’s what we call “black-letter law” on improper activity for a tax-exempt organization. As a 501(c)(3) group, the NAACP is prohibited from supporting or opposing any candidate for elective office.

The NAACP responded to the IRS’ letter by screaming from the rooftops that it was political payback. Consequently, Bush’s IRS commissioner requested that Treasury’s inspector general investigate the IRS’ tax-exempt unit for political bias. The IG’s report found no politics in the NAACP audit and — to the contrary — that more “pro-Republican” groups (18) than “pro-Democratic” groups (12) had been audited.

Nonetheless, the NAACP simply refused to cooperate with the IRS. There was nothing the Bush administration could do. No Republican was going to allow the NAACP’s tax-exempt status to be revoked on its watch. Two years later, the IRS simply issued a letter clearing the group.

Today, the NAACP openly engages in partisan activity, such as a current weeks-long protest of Republican legislators in North Carolina.

Finally, a tip to the Democrats trying to defend the IRS: As a devoted true-crime TV viewer, I can tell you that when you’re caught red-handed, it’s never a good defense to say, “Why would I be so stupid to kill my wife right after taking out a huge life insurance policy on her?”

You were that stupid and you got caught.

Whitewashing History: Jews of Hungary

A Jewish renaissance, tucked away in a Budapest apartment

Budapest's Teleki Square synagogue has survived two World Wars, the rise of the 'anti-Zionist' Jobbik party, and rotting fixtures – and is now part of a resurgent Jewish community....

By Andrew Connelly, Helene Bienvenu

My comment below:

Strange, the article mentions nothing of the time when Jews ruled Hungary.  Following WWI Communists, under Bela Kun, who was Jewish, came to power.  Almost all the leaders of this revolutionary government were also Jews.  They hoped to link with the armies of the Bolsheviki, but the Reds of the east were pushed back, and Kun's Communist overthrown.  Perhaps, one reason for Horthy's anti-Jewish laws was the connection between Jews and Communism.
Again, after WWII many in the Hungarian Communist secret police were Jews.  So much so that during the 1956 uprising against the Communists, commentators on the Left like Herbert Aptheker, and on the Right like David Irving considered it to be a revolt against the Jews.
This history should be considered when discussing the history of Hungary and Jews. 

(I rarely comment to respond to others, but this time I did.  In 2 of my responses, I urged people to read an article from a Jewish academic journal, and my "Affirmative Action and the Nazis."  In both of my responses, a word was changed.  In both, the word "Nazis" became "#$%$."  So now, for the politically correct, are there 2 "n" words?  Too words so horrible we may not utter or write them?  Ah, free speech!!)

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  imz14u2c  •  9 mins ago Report Abuse
  

  Your post WWII history is obviously made up as the Hungarian Jews were wiped out in the war. What bogus historical text did you pull this from?

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  Clearly not all Hungarian Jews were killed during WWII. George Soros, the millionaire Left winger who subsidizes many front groups in the US, is one example.
  I do not say that all Jews joined the Hungarian Communist secret police, but surely they were a much larger percentage of the police-state apparatus than non Jews. In the US a Hungarian Communist publishing house issued a book maintaining that the 1956 uprising was simply anti-Semitic.
  Try to go beyond the narrow box of liberal ideology/his

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  S john  •  1 day 23 hrs ago Report Abuse

  Matyas Rakosi was of what religion?



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  Hugh Murray  •  1 day 23 hrs ago

  Clearly not all Hungarian Jews were killed during WWII. George Soros, the millionaire Left winger who subsidizes many front groups in the US, is one example.
  I do not say that all Jews joined the Hungarian Communist secret police, but surely they were a much larger percentage of the... More

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  peter  •  1 day 23 hrs ago Report Abuse

  @S John He was jewish.

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  JonS  •  1 day 22 hrs ago Report Abuse

  Rakosi was born Jewish but publicly repudiated his religion. Bela Kun had a Jewish father and a Christian mother but was brought up Christian and educated at a Christian school. Whether or not any person has some Jewish ethnicity in his lineage is hardly a valid excuse for anti-semitism.

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  imz14u2c  •  1 day 22 hrs ago Report Abuse

  This #$%$ is all from David Irving, the holocaust denier and racist as found by English courts.

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  Hugh Murray  •  1 day 22 hrs ago

  Herbert Aptheker was a leading member of the Communist Party USA and said the 1956 uprising in Hungary was simply anti-Semitic.

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  BG  •  1 day 22 hrs ago Report Abuse

  Soros has made quite a few antisemitic remarks. He does not consider himself to be a Jew.
  According to the opened Soviet archives, after the 1917 Soviet revolution, about 1% of commies were Jews. By 1940, that number was down to 0.1%. After the WWII, it was miniscule. In the leadership, the... More

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  ellie  •  1 day 17 hrs ago Report Abuse

  I am Jewish, so here's some history. David Ben Gurion (Israel's founding father) and the zionists were avowed socialists because Germany represented its opposite-fascism. However, they flatly rejected communism. Most Jews who were communists, disavowed their religion per communist teaching. There... More

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  Hugh Murray  •  1 day 13 hrs ago

  In regard to Bela Kun's Communist government in Hungary following WWI: Concerning the leadership in Kun’s revolutionary government—“ . . . of 48 Peoples’ Commissars . . . 30 were Jewish, as were 161 of its 202 highest officials.” W. D. Rubinstein, “Jews in the Economic Elites of Western Nations... More

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  Hugh Murray  •  1 day 13 hrs ago

  On how few Jews were Communists, one might note, how influential Jews were in the Communist movement. Lenin had a Jewish grandfather. AndNot counting Lenin, of the seven members of the early Politburo, four were Jews—Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Sverdlov. Furthermore, after Lenin’s death, the... More

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  BG  •  1 day 6 hrs ago Report Abuse

  Every single quote you have posted so far was made up. Why stop now?

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  Ella  •  1 day 2 hrs ago Report Abuse

  I can't even believe Soros, is a Jew. If he truly is it's only by birth, there's nothing Jewish left in him and he refuses to be considered as such himself. And you could find a lot of people that have Jewish ancestors. Is this how you plan to explain how Jews are responsible for all the ills of... More

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  Brian  •  21 hrs ago Report Abuse

  According the the anti-semites who have posted, European Jews were converted Khazars. Now they are Communists. Seems to me, the anti-smites can't keep their litany of lies straight, let alone keep a straight face when they try to pass off lies as historical facts. The truth wins out every time.... More

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  Hugh Murray  •  21 hrs ago

  Read the Jewish Journal of Sociology, the citation I gave for the quote about Jews in the Hungarian Communist regime of Bela Kun. Read my "Affirmative Action and the #$%$" for more material. I do not make up quotations. Some simply reject history that does not fit with their ideology. That is... More

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  BG  •  16 hrs ago Report Abuse

  Interesting... On neonazi sites, the as)hols look for no excuses. They are simpletons, antisemitic dirt.
  Here, on Yahoo boards, the as)wipes cover themselves in pretenses, but once you strip away their covers, you see the same, though pretentious, filth.