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Once Upon a Time in Texas

But in this fairy tale there is only one evil, the good that exists is either defeated, annihilated or driven away - Mikita Brottman Once Upon a Time in Texas (review of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre)

"A Destructive Jouissance"

I'm interested in a certain kind of honesty about thinking what constitutes pleasure or human desire. That includes our nuclear desire. We must wish to get blown away. If we practiced Nietzschean indecency.... Nietzsche said you have to be rigorously indecent, and really think about those desires. Once desire is on the line, there's going to be destruction and a turning around of values. What I called in Crack Wars "a destructive jouissance."

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Avital Ronell Interview By Alexander Laurence

Venezuela's 2007 Constitutional Reform Referendum

December 2, 2007 Constitutional Reform Referendum

In August 2007, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced his proposals for constitutional reform that would alter 33 of the 350 articles of the 1999 Venezuelan constitution, and that he claimed would move Venezuela toward a new a model of development known as “socialism in the 21st century” embracing participatory democracy and a mixed economy. According to the Venezuelan government, the purpose of the reforms was to speed the redistribution of Venezuela’s oil resources to benefit the poor; de-centralize political power to grant citizens more direct say in their affairs; and outline the legal foundation of a new, more equitable model of development and democracy.33 Venezuela’s National Assembly debated the proposals in three rounds, and ended up adding reforms to amend 36 additional articles for a total of 69 constitutional amendments that were finalized by the Assembly on November 2, 2007.

The amendments were subject to a public referendum held on December 2, 2007, with the 69 reforms split into two parts. Block “A” consisted of amendments to 46 of the constitution’s articles, including the 33 reforms proposed by Chávez and 13 proposed by the National Assembly. Block “B” consisted of amendments to 23 articles proposed solely by the National Assembly.

Among some of the proposals for constitutional changes included in Block A of the referendum were the following amendments:

• to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 years of age (Article 64);
• to prohibit foreign financing of associations with political goals, and provide for
government financing of electoral activities (Article 67);
• to decrease the workweek from 44 to 36 hours and the workday from 8 hours to 6
hours (Article 90)
• to recognize Venezuela’s multi-cultural diversity and the importance of its
indigenous, European, and African cultures (Article 100);
• to provide that the government promote and develop distinct forms of businesses
and economic units of social property and social production or distribution in
order to create the best conditions for the collective and cooperative construction
of a socialist economy (Article 112);
• in addition to private property, to add several new classifications for property –
public, social, collective, and mixed (Article 115);
• to remove the presidential two-term limit, and extend the presidential term from
six to seven years (Article 230);
• to state that the socioeconomic system of Venezuela is founded on socialist and
anti-imperialist principles, among others (Article 299); and
• to eliminate the independence of the Central Bank, which would include putting
international reserves under the administration and direction of the President
(Article 318).

Among some of the proposals for constitutional changes included in Block B of the referendum were the following amendments:

• to prohibit discrimination based on health and sexual orientation (Article 21);
• to give the President power to suspend certain constitutional rights, such as the
right of information and certain rights of due process (that are protected under the
current constitution) during a declared “state of exception” (national emergency),
but prohibit the suspension of the rights to life, defense, and personal integrity or
the suspension of prohibitions against torture, being held incommunicado, or
disappearance (Article 337);
• to remove the time limitation for a declared state of exception (Article 338);
• to increase the percentage of signatures required for citizens to initiate
constitutional amendments from 15% to 20% of those on the electoral registry
(Article 341).

Source: Venezuela: Political Conditions and U.S. Policy by Mark P. Sullivan.  Specialist in Latin American Affairs. July 28, 2009. Congressional Research Service

www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32488.pdf

Israel Deliberately Forgets its History: Schlomo Sand (Le Monde Diplomatique)

Zionist nationalist myth of enforced exile

Israel deliberately forgets its history

An Israeli historian suggests the diaspora was the consequence, not of the expulsion of the Hebrews from Palestine, but of proselytising across north Africa, southern Europe and the Middle East
by Schlomo Sand

Every Israeli knows that he or she is the direct and exclusive descendant of a Jewish people which has existed since it received the Torah (1) in Sinai. According to this myth, the Jews escaped from Egypt and settled in the Promised Land, where they built the glorious kingdom of David and Solomon, which subsequently split into the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. They experienced two exiles: after the destruction of the first temple, in the 6th century BC, and of the second temple, in 70 AD.

Two thousand years of wandering brought the Jews to Yemen, Morocco, Spain, Germany, Poland and deep into Russia. But, the story goes, they always managed to preserve blood links between their scattered communities. Their uniqueness was never compromised.

At the end of the 19th century conditions began to favour their return to their ancient homeland. If it had not been for the Nazi genocide, millions of Jews would have fulfilled the dream of 20 centuries and repopulated Eretz Israel, the biblical land of Israel. Palestine, a virgin land, had been waiting for its original inhabitants to return and awaken it. It belonged to the Jews, rather than to an Arab minority that had no history and had arrived there by chance. The wars in which the wandering people reconquered their land were just; the violent opposition of the local population was criminal.

This interpretation of Jewish history was developed as talented, imaginative historians built on surviving fragments of Jewish and Christian religious memory to construct a continuous genealogy for the Jewish people. Judaism’s abundant historiography encompasses many different approaches.

But none have ever questioned the basic concepts developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Discoveries that might threaten this picture of a linear past were marginalised. The national imperative rejected any contradiction of or deviation from the dominant story. University departments exclusively devoted to “the history of the Jewish people”, as distinct from those teaching what is known in Israel as general history, made a significant contribution to this selective vision. The debate on what constitutes Jewishness has obvious legal implications, but historians ignored it: as far as they are concerned, any descendant of the people forced into exile 2,000 years ago is a Jew.

Nor did these official investigators of the past join the controversy provoked by the “new historians” from the late 1980s. Most of the limited number of participants in this public debate were from other disciplines or non-academic circles: sociologists, orientalists, linguists, geographers, political scientists, literary academics and archaeologists developed new perspectives on the Jewish and Zionist past. Departments of Jewish history remained defensive and conservative, basing themselves on received ideas. While there have been few significant developments in national history over the past 60 years (a situation unlikely to change in the short term), the facts that have emerged face any honest historian with fundamental questions.

Founding myths shaken

Is the Bible a historical text? Writing during the early half of the 19th century, the first modern Jewish historians, such as Isaak Markus Jost (1793-1860) and Leopold Zunz (1794-1886), did not think so. They regarded the Old Testament as a theological work reflecting the beliefs of Jewish religious communities after the destruction of the first temple. It was not until the second half of the century that Heinrich Graetz (1817-91) and others developed a “national” vision of the Bible and transformed Abraham’s journey to Canaan, the flight from Egypt and the united kingdom of David and Solomon into an authentic national past. By constant repetition, Zionist historians have subsequently turned these Biblical “truths” into the basis of national education.

But during the 1980s an earthquake shook these founding myths. The discoveries made by the “new archaeology” discredited a great exodus in the 13th century BC. Moses could not have led the Hebrews out of Egypt into the Promised Land, for the good reason that the latter was Egyptian territory at the time. And there is no trace of either a slave revolt against the pharaonic empire or of a sudden conquest of Canaan by outsiders.

Nor is there any trace or memory of the magnificent kingdom of David and Solomon. Recent discoveries point to the existence, at the time, of two small kingdoms: Israel, the more powerful, and Judah, the future Judea. The general population of Judah did not go into 6th century BC exile: only its political and intellectual elite were forced to settle in Babylon. This decisive encounter with Persian religion gave birth to Jewish monotheism.

Then there is the question of the exile of 70 AD. There has been no real research into this turning point in Jewish history, the cause of the diaspora. And for a simple reason: the Romans never exiled any nation from anywhere on the eastern seaboard of the Mediterranean. Apart from enslaved prisoners, the population of Judea continued to live on their lands, even after the destruction of the second temple. Some converted to Christianity in the 4th century, while the majority embraced Islam during the 7th century Arab conquest.

Most Zionist thinkers were aware of this: Yitzhak Ben Zvi, later president of Israel, and David Ben Gurion, its first prime minister, accepted it as late as 1929, the year of the great Palestinian revolt. Both stated on several occasions that the peasants of Palestine were the descendants of the inhabitants of ancient Judea (2).

Proselytising zeal

But if there was no exile after 70 AD, where did all the Jews who have populated the Mediterranean since antiquity come from? The smokescreen of national historiography hides an astonishing reality. From the Maccabean revolt of the mid-2nd century BC to the Bar Kokhba revolt of the 2nd century AD, Judaism was the most actively proselytising religion. The Judeo-Hellenic Hasmoneans forcibly converted the Idumeans of southern Judea and the Itureans of Galilee and incorporated them into the people of Israel. Judaism spread across the Middle East and round the Mediterranean. The 1st century AD saw the emergence in modern Kurdistan of the Jewish kingdom of Adiabene, just one of many that converted.

The writings of Flavius Josephus are not the only evidence of the proselytising zeal of the Jews. Horace, Seneca, Juvenal and Tacitus were among the Roman writers who feared it. The Mishnah and the Talmud (3) authorised conversion, even if the wise men of the Talmudic tradition expressed reservations in the face of the mounting pressure from Christianity.

Although the early 4th century triumph of Christianity did not mark the end of Jewish expansion, it relegated Jewish proselytism to the margins of the Christian cultural world. During the 5th century, in modern Yemen, a vigorous Jewish kingdom emerged in Himyar, whose descendants preserved their faith through the Islamic conquest and down to the present day. Arab chronicles tell of the existence, during the 7th century, of Judaised Berber tribes; and at the end of the century the legendary Jewish queen Dihya contested the Arab advance into northwest Africa. Jewish Berbers participated in the conquest of the Iberian peninsula and helped establish the unique symbiosis between Jews and Muslims that characterised Hispano-Arabic culture.

The most significant mass conversion occurred in the 8th century, in the massive Khazar kingdom between the Black and Caspian seas. The expansion of Judaism from the Caucasus into modern Ukraine created a multiplicity of communities, many of which retreated from the 13th century Mongol invasions into eastern Europe. There, with Jews from the Slavic lands to the south and from what is now modern Germany, they formed the basis of Yiddish culture (4).

Prism of Zionism

Until about 1960 the complex origins of the Jewish people were more or less reluctantly acknowledged by Zionist historiography. But thereafter they were marginalised and finally erased from Israeli public memory. The Israeli forces who seized Jerusalem in 1967 believed themselves to be the direct descendents of the mythic kingdom of David rather than – God forbid – of Berber warriors or Khazar horsemen. The Jews claimed to constitute a specific ethnic group that had returned to Jerusalem, its capital, from 2,000 years of exile and wandering.

This monolithic, linear edifice is supposed to be supported by biology as well as history. Since the 1970s supposedly scientific research, carried out in Israel, has desperately striven to demonstrate that Jews throughout the world are closely genetically related.

Research into the origins of populations now constitutes a legitimate and popular field in molecular biology and the male Y chromosome has been accorded honoured status in the frenzied search for the unique origin of the “chosen people”. The problem is that this historical fantasy has come to underpin the politics of identity of the state 
of Israel. By validating an essentialist, 
ethnocentric definition of Judaism it encourages a segregation that separates Jews from non-Jews – whether Arabs, Russian immigrants or foreign workers.

Sixty years after its foundation, Israel refuses to accept that it should exist for the sake of its citizens. For almost a quarter of the population, who are not regarded as Jews, this is not their state legally. At the same time, Israel presents itself as the homeland of Jews throughout the world, even if these are no longer persecuted refugees, but the full and equal citizens of other countries.

A global ethnocracy invokes the myth of the eternal nation, reconstituted on the land of its ancestors, to justify internal discrimination against its own citizens. It will remain difficult to imagine a new Jewish history while the prism of Zionism continues to fragment everything into an ethnocentric spectrum. But Jews worldwide have always tended to form religious communities, usually by conversion; they cannot be said to share an ethnicity derived from a unique origin and displaced over 20 centuries of wandering.

The development of historiography and the evolution of modernity were consequences of the invention of the nation state, which preoccupied millions during the 19th and 20th centuries. The new millennium has seen these dreams begin to shatter.

And more and more academics are analysing, dissecting and deconstructing the great national stories, especially the myths of common origin so dear to chroniclers of the past.
September 2008

Translated by Donald Hounam

More by Schlomo Sand

Shlomo Sand is professor of history at Tel Aviv university and the author of Comment le people juif fut inventé (Fayard, Paris, 2008)

(1) The Torah, from the Hebrew root yara (to teach) is the founding text of Judaism. It consists of the first five books of the Old Testament (the Pentateuch): Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

(2) See David Ben Gurion and Yitzhak Ben Zvi, Eretz Israel in the past and present, 1918 (in Yiddish), and Jerusalem, 1980 (in Hebrew); Yitzhak Ben Zvi, Our population in the country, Executive Committee of the Union for Youth and the Jewish National Fund, Warsaw, 1929 (in Hebrew).

(3) The Mishnah, regarded as the first work of rabbinic literature, was drawn up around 200 AD. The Talmud is a synthesis of rabbinic discussions on the law, customs and history of the Jews. The Palestinian Talmud was written between the 3rd and 5th centuries; the Babylonian Talmud was compiled at the end of the 5th century.

(4) Yiddish, spoken by the Jews of eastern Europe, was a Germano-Slavic language incorporating Hebrew words.

http://mondediplo.com/2008/09/07israel

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All living things on this Earth have already been "destroyed" or are in the process of being "destroyed"...and this process will be called heaven and peace on Earth by the white man's system and all his little devil slaves.

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This is what Baudrillard meant by a total revolution: a strategy geared to escalate the system and push it to its breaking point. Then, giving up on every pretence of rationality, it would start revolving and achieve in the process a circularity of its own:” We know the potential of tautology when it reinforces the system’s claim to perfect sphericity (Ubu Roi’s belly)” (SE, p.4). Coming back full circle to his early pataphysical roots, Baudrillard was taunting capital to emulate Jarry’s absurdism—and share in Ubu’s grotesque fate. After all, wasn’t capitalism itself a pataphysical proposition? It was endlessly cutting the branch on which it sits, devastating the planet and endangering the human species while claiming to improve its lot. Capital didn’t care a fig for the fate of humanity. The real wasn’t its business. It had canceled the principle of reality and substituted a codification of a higher order, a hyper-reality that made the real obsolete. Its dirge-like flows were self-referential, leaving everything else in a state of self-induced simulation. The flows of capital were posthumous, post-human. In their nihilistic energy, they carried the seeds of their own destruction. Only Ubu, Jarry’s truculent hero, the coward king cannibalizing his own entourage, and himself in the process, could account for such a bullish cynicism. The society of the spectacle was turning into a soft version of the theater of cruelty, a burlesque of death with the globe as its stage. Life was being exchanged for nothing, for a handful of glittering toys, work absorbed time like a sponge and left no traces. Baudrillard wasn’t the exterminator, but the system itself. Yet no one was paying attention.

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A Comparative Analysis of Chavismo to Zapatismo: Between Revolutionary 'Common Sense' & ' The Limits of the Possible' for Radical Social Change

Two of the most vibrant revolutionary movements in the world today are the Zapatista revolt in Chiapas, Mexico, which has been unfolding since 1994 (or a bit before), and the Bolivarian Revolution championed by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez since he was first elected in 1998.Each presents a distinctive set of practical goals, compelling visions, innovative political strategies, and striking short- and longer-term tactics. Each has mobilized broad constituencies at their grassroots, constructed a dense network of institutions and infrastructural organizations, and inspired strong international networks of support. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the two movements' origins, forms, visions, strategies, and tactics in order to draw up a comparative balance sheet of their success and failure to date, as well as to offer analysis of the future prospects of each, both in their own settings, and beyond. Through this comparative strategy we might be able to assess the experiences of chavismo and zapatismo along a spectrum running from revolutionary "common sense" to "the limits of the possible" (and maybe beyond).

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SF Chronicle Allows Rabid Zionists to Run Wild on Comments Section

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past - William Faulkner

The stupefying amount of stammering detritus exhaled here by various unknown eliminationist Zionist assailants is a testament to the non-reciprocity found in fascist bourgeois media architecture: effectual response is made impossible and mimics the equivalence of cacophonous silence found in similar totalitarian control systems manufactured by unconscious machine capital. As nothing is ever being said here, it is better to remain quiet. (after Baudrilllard)

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2009/12/24/EDOU1B8CJ6.DTL#ixzz0eWGfpayu

The only 'hate troll' here (no offense to Scandinavian mythology) is the 'SF Gate Editor' who allows rabid ultra-rightwing Zionists to run amok on the comments section and deletes perfectly valid posts that serve as useful historical background to the current situation. It's beyond obvious at this point that the SF Chronicle is bought and sold by the Zionist Lobby and is an anti-intellectual mouth-piece for myopic militarized goons who will do anything in their power to keep the dumbed-down 'goyim' from understanding real history or the root causes of this conflict. Needless to say, I canceled my subscription to the Chronicle long ago. Pathetic. Sad. Beyond evil.

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In regards to one of the original claims made here previously by my assailant (sadistic spokesperson for Caterpillar corporation), propagating the theory that the Zionist project never had as its main objective the expulsion by 'any means necessary' (including extermination) of the indigenous Arab Semitic population of Palestine, it is important to understand that these are indeed myths transmitted by the ruling class in the US and Israel for the purposes of perception management and have been refuted by numerous post-Zionist scholars. Of note, Nur-eldeen Masalha's critique of the 'official history' regarding the 1948 Palestinian exodus or Nakba ('catastrophe' in Arabic): using declassified Israeli documents Dr. Masalha clearly shows that this was the planned intention of Zionism from the outset. Unfortunately, what is sadly exposed is a history of systemic LYING by the Zionist government...

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Unfortunately, what is sadly exposed is a history of systemic LYING by the Zionist government that continues to this very day, beginning with Chaim Weizmann's (first Israeli president) claim that the Nakba was a 'a miraculous clearing of the land.'

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I've been defamed here by rabid Zionists who BLATANTLY LIE, INTENTIONALLY DISTORT and are *intellectually dishonest,* I refuse to continue this debate until the dumbed down thug ( or thugs) is banned, retracts his/her comments or apologies.

Yishuv Zionism: Its Attitude to Nazism and the Third Reich Reconsidered

H Eshkoli-Wagman - Modern Judaism, 1999 - *Oxford Univ* Press
Zionist policy and attitude on the question of German Jewry [in the Third Reich's early stages] constitute a critical test case whose results raise the historian's hackles. Not only are the cynical nature of Zionist collaboration with the Nazis and Zionist equanimity to the fate of non-Zionist Jews fully revealed, the interdependent nature of these two phenomena is also exposed. It is one thing if the purpose of collaboration is to save lives. But to collaborate in order to save Yishuv Zionism by abandoning a larger Jewish public - how is such a thing possible?

http://mj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/19/1/21

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"Making an accusation without evidentiary support is not a fact. Drawing a conclusion based upon supposed motive is not evidence. That is speculation."

What's been posted here is fact with plenty of evidentiary support from legitimate sources. Suppose YOU just *haven't bothered* to look at the sourcing. Just because you're not familiar with the references does not relegate them to the realm of so-called 'conspiracy theory'... essentially a popular culture 'buzzword' completely devoid of any historical or socio-political context and primarily used as a knee-jerk reaction to dissuade individuals from investigating the deeper and darker truths behind the cultural fictions of US history. For example, someone conditioned in this knee-jerk way might deny the existence of a ruling class that engages in social engineering. Omitted, of course is the criminal definition, which occurs in government and the private sector all the time. At any 'rate', for the record, I've been defamed...

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It's quite obvious that you are hell bent on burying information (mostly information I've posted) on this thread and not interested in debating the facts, the root causes of this conflict or any other legitimate information that even slightly deviates from the tightly controlled information disseminated by the US corporate media - I've reported you numerous times for defamatory and slanderous attacks based on BLATANT LIES. YOU are *intellectually dishonest* to say the least and should be immediately BANNED.

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From the Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black:

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During the first months of the Hitler regime, leaders of the Zionist movement concluded a controversial pact with the Third Reich which, in its various forms, transferred some 60,000 Jews and $100 million--almost $1.7 billion in 2009 dollars--to Jewish Palestine. In return, Zionists would halt the worldwide Jewish-led anti-nazi boycott that threatened to topple the Hitler regime in its first year.

That's for starters.

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You can speculate all you like about elaborate conspiracy theories. There is little to no evidence to support them. And pointing that out does not make the skeptic stupid, uneducated or ill-informed. It is a weak argument to try and support your side of a debate by attacking the education of those of us who disagree with you. Skepticism is one of the foundations of all critical thought. And evidence is what is required to overcome skepticism.

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Making an accusation without evidentiary support is not a fact. Drawing a conclusion based upon supposed motive is not evidence. That is speculation. And your insults about the intelligence of your opposition is one of the hallmarks of any conspiracy theorist. I know that you like to think that you know something that makes you smarter than everybody else. But I don't have to be an expert on Zionism (which I am not) to know that you mentioned really obscure names and left out the major founders of Zionism like Weitsman and Herzl. I also looked up those names and at a cursory glance found no indication of the accusations you make though I am sure they are written on that obscure blog you posted. Such a charge if it had any merit would be readily available on any basic search of those names...unless you believe there is a "conspiracy" preventing wider publication of this information.

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Marinetti's Transhumanist Mein Kampf

Likewise, works written at this time - most notably, Mafarka Le Futuriste - abound with images and nonsexual procreation, consistently eliminating the figure of the effeminizing mother. This tendency is expressed programmatically in Marinetti's railings "Against Amore and Parliamentarism" in "War, the World's Only Hygiene": Well then: I confess that before so intoxicating a spectacle we strong Futurists have suddenly felt ourselves suddenly detached from women, who have suddenly become too earthly, or to express it better, have become a symbol of the earth that we ought to abandon. We have even dreamed of one day being able to create a mechanical son, the fruit of pure will, a synthesis of all the laws that science is on the brink of discovering." (Marinetti SW, p75)  

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I took Gotham's White Knight and brought him down to our level.  It wasn't hard. Madness is like gravity - all it takes is a little push.

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Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, owner of the DailyKos website, now admits that he spent six months in the employ of the US Central Intelligence Agency in 2001," writes Holland. "In a one-hour interview on June 2, 2006 at the Commonwealth Club, Moulitsas, also known as 'Kos,’ admitted that he was a CIA employee and would have 'no problem working for them’ in the present.--Kurt Nimmo

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I was and still remain strongly for military action in Afghanistan as a legitimate and necessary act in response to 9/11: an attack on two American cities and on the infrastructure of government cannot be ignored... - Dave Neiwert aka 'Hunter'  - Daily Kos, May 10, 2006

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ce399 note, 11 April 2008:

No mention of Sanger and Eugenics in a recent Democracy Now! program detailing the history of  Reproductive Rights and Abortion Activism. No mention of Sanger or Eugenics at all in the DN! online archive.

Meanwhile, Dave Neiwert the pseudo anti-fascist who apparently has never heard of  the term Zionism, yet likes to assume National Alliance related screen names while writing mainstream Democratic 'con and bullshit' (or is it endlessly blathering kitsch?) at CIA-Mockingbird front Daily Kos, stoops to the level of outright disinformation and lying regarding Sanger and Eugenics: 

Foremost among these was the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, as well as other multiculturalists such as Margaret Mead and Franz Boas. These thinkers specifically and ardently rejected the tenets of white supremacism and "negative" eugenics. Of course, in subsequent years, all of these people have been tarred -- mostly by anti-abortion activists -- with guilt by association to the eugenics movement. (Planned Parenthood has a thorough and well-argued defense of Sanger up on its Web site.) But there was no mistaking the differences between them at the time.

Dave Neiwert is now managing editor at Firedoglake.

With gatekeepers like Neiwert at the levers of information control for citizens seeking an alternative to the corporate media, is it any wonder the U.S. has become an uninhabitable Fourth Reich, populated by selectively bred 'imbeciles' ? .

Dave Neiwert (aka 'Hunter') Daily Kos, Left 'Gate Keeping,' the CIA and Two Minutes Hate

Amy Goodman Omits and Dave Neiwert Whitewashes History of Margaret Sanger, Eugenics

Amy Goodman and James Bamford Omit ECHELON, UKUSA Agreement from NSA Discussion

Michael Parenti Shreds JFK Assassination Conspiracy Debunkers (mp3 file)