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My new Book “The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress,” looks at more than 60 communist and socialist connected Representatives and Senators.

It also examines several ways these Congressmen are being used and manipulated by Marxists on the road to a socialist America.

One of the key weapons in the socialist arsenal is of course illegal immigration – particularly across the Southern border.

“The Enemies Within” reveals how key communist and socialist activists have deliberately promoted soft treatment and amnesty for illegal immigrants as a way of increasing the left/Democratic vote in California and the Southwest.

They aim to bring socialism to America, through a permanent Democratic majority built on the back of a growing Latino vote.

Key players in the program include late Southern Californian activist Bert Corona, a secret communist who worked with Cesar Chavez and in the highest offices of the Democratic Party, to build and promote the “immigrants’ rights” movement.

Corona in turn would go on to train prominent California state politician Gil Cedillo, a long-time communist and socialist affiliate who fathered the 2011 California Dream Act – a major victory for illegal immigrants in the Golden State and across the entire nation.

Other Corona proteges include California’s top labor unionist Maria Elena Durazo and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, both also long-time communist and socialist hangarounds.

Durazo has headed a 15 year “get out the Latino vote” campaign, which has turned much of previously deep red Southern California forever blue. Villaraigosa has virtually banned the LAPD from enforcing immigration law, so that Los Angeles is now virtually a “sanctuary city” for illegals.

If these people get the vote, they will make California an impregnable Democratic stronghold. Which is of course the plan.

Several serving California Democrats owe their jobs to Bert Corona and his movements.

Lorenzo Torrez

Another key “immigrants’ rights” player was late Arizona activist Lorenzo Torrez – the long-time leader of the Arizona Communist Party.

As head of the Communist Party’s Mexican American Equality Commission, Torrez’s job was to coordinate opposition to any crackdown on illegal immigration and to encourage Latino “get out the vote” efforts across the Southwest.

Though little known to the public, Torrez was easily one of the most influential political activists in the region up until his death in 2012.

Several prominent Arizona Democrats owe their positions to comrade Torrez.

Probably the most important contemporary player in the “immigrants’ rights”  battle is SEIU Executive VP Eliseo Medina. A member of the U.S.’s largest Marxist group, Democratic Socialists of America, Medina is also very close to the Communist Party and is a former disciple of United Farm Workers Founder, Cesar Chavez.

Medina’s task  for the revolutionary cause has been to get the traditionally anti-immigrant labor movement to back “immigration reform.” Not an easy sell to get workers to support their own competition, but Medina has managed it.

Medina works closely with Democratic Congressmen on immigration issues and even served on Barack Obama’s 2008 Latino Advisory Commission.

Medina has stated at a “progressive” gathering in 2009 that the reason he is pushing so hard for amnesty for illegals, is that their several million votes would go mainly to the Democrats. According to Medina:

“We will be creating a governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle…”

“The Enemies Within” exposes so much of what is ailing modern America. The country is not in trouble by accident. Radical forces have worked long and hard to bring America down.

By themselves the radicals are weak, but with dozens of covert supporters in the U.S. Congress, their power is magnified exponentially.

Just who are these ”enemies within”?

Be one of the first Americans to find out!

My book will be released officially August 20, 2013 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

However, if you are a U.S. resident, you can receive one of the very first copies hot off the press by pre-ordering through the button below.

Trevor Loudon
Christchurch
New Zealand

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By: Sara Noble
The Independent Sentinel

cartoon via CosnervativeDailyNews.com

I am not a member of the Tea Party, but I must support them and the rally they have planned for this Wednesday, June 19th at the Capitol.

It was originally supposed to be only an Audit the IRS rally. It is so much more than that now. We must now stand up for all our freedoms!

It is a last stand!

Mark Levin has pleaded for people to show up.

One of the issues is the immigration bill which is being passed off as a Conservative bill in the ads on Fox News and Talk Radio. Mark Zuckerberg, a liberal, is paying for the ads. They are an attempt to convince Conservatives to not oppose the bill.

If you search this site you will see a number of articles on this bill, which is anything but Conservative.

The bill puts amnesty before border security. If in five years the border isn’t secure, then a new government oversight agency will be formed to look into it.

The bill sets up chain migration and there are exemptions to every fee, to citizenship, and so on.

Illegal immigrants will be called “New Americans.” They will receive “legal” status within six months. They will be eligible for Obamacare and no one is going to deprive them of welfare or earned income tax credits despite what you have heard.

Can we afford this?

We are losing our economic freedom.

Our government is monitoring our Internet communications and spying on us. Government agencies are targeting everyday Americans. George Orwell was right!

This is the Brave New World unless we say enough.

Our Constitution and our Bill of Rights are being eroded and if we won’t stand and fight now we might never have a chance again.

Louie Gohmert, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz among others have asked for our help. They want us to show up in DC on Wednesday.

Please consider taking the day off and heading for DC. There are buses leaving from almost every location.

Show DC that we stand for liberty and for the Constitution!

You don’t have to be a Tea Party member or a Conservative, or a Republican to go and stand with the Patriots at this rally. This is a rally for individual freedom.

We are losing our country.

Information at Forbes.com and also at Tea Party Patriots.

Click this link for information about buses.

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The Watcher’s Council

Every week on Monday morning, the Council and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum with short takes on a major issue of the day. This week’s question: Do You Think The Obama Administration’s decision to Get Actively Involved in The Syrian Civil War Is A Good Idea?

Simply Jews: The WH need to respond to the Syria Civil War makes me commiserate with the lose-lose situation WH is in regarding this conundrum.

To provide arms to the people that will almost certainly turn the weapons against the people who provided them in the first place is not an appetizing choice. It has already happened during the so-called “Arab Spring,” the best example being Libya, as it happened in Afghanistan and in other places.

To do nothing and to watch the numbers of dead and wounded mounting, as do the numbers of fugitives all around Syria, is also not a pleasant alternative.

Many good people call for the military assistance to be provided immediately, and of course there is no good explanation why not to do it. Many other good people warn about the dire consequences of providing the military assistance to raving Al Qaeda and other fundies, and there is no good answer for these too.

So there.

GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD: Syriavention? Too little, too late. All indications indicate an upcoming blitz on Aleppo is like in the last bit of planning and a Gotterdammerung battle will last perhaps two or maybe even 3 weeks.

Unless 44 plans on using American troops on station in Jordan to split Syrian forces (either by crossing the border or just by making tons of noise to distract forces needed for Aleppo), by the time Great Satan is all crunk up for intervention, it will only be like an honor guard for the rebels trek to annihilation.

For now – right now – looks like 44″s posse wants both sides to lose – including civilians – and will most likely not go much further than maintaining a bloody stand off stalemate.

What is also evident is that ebberdobby else involved in the conflict — and the cats that are sponsoring them — is still waiting on 44. On Assad’s side, Russia, Iran, HizBAllah, and Iraq have helped to somersault the tide of conflict against Syrian Free Army and Rebellious rebels, and they’ve sweetly enjoyed pretty much free rein in light of 44″s tardiness and limited response (only civilian and medical stuff so far). NATO like France and Great Britain – are holding back for 44 to lead.

The real quiz is: Can 44 continue a neither-in-nor-out approach to ye olde Suriya al Kubra since it’s like a real live humanitarian and regional disaster that could threaten the unstable stability of the entire Middle East?

See, the influx of foreign weaponry – Iranian drones, HizBAllah brigades, and more better and more effective Russian style tactics have allowed the Syrian military to isolate the rebels into urban pockets before handing them their assets and defeating them in detail. Supplying hot up to date anti-panzer and anti-aircraft weaponry might give the rebels a chance to counter attack heavy duty forces constricting their areas. Yet the fear that MANPADS and Kornet rockets might end up in Western nations are carnage creators for terrorists is a real threat

It looks like Bashar’s cats and allies have compromised the rebels’ communications networks, so secure communication abilities might help conduct surprise ops without giving away their plots and advertising it to their enemies.

This stuff alone is prob not near enough to turn the tide though. Syria (on paper anywrought) has an armed to the teeth military of ginormous size and appears to have learned some dang hard lessons in the last 6 months.

The best option would most likely be for Great Satan to give up unconventional warfare advice and training from Special Ops.

JoshuaPundit: America has never had a dog in the Syrian civil war. But an intervention in Syria has several benefits for President Obama, if not for America.

First, from a political standpoint, it provides an important distraction from the myriad scandals now confronting the administration. The Obama Administration has known about what was going on in Syria for a long time, but only now has it suddenly become imperative that we intervene there.

From the standpoint of this president’s agenda, an American intervention accomplishes several things.

The aim of President Obama and his cronies from day one has been the idea that ending America’s problems with the Muslim world involves promoting Islamism at home and abroad and creating ‘daylight’ between America and Israel by destroying the alliance between the two countries.

We have already seen President Obama do his part to create and fund Islamist regimes in Libya and Egypt as well as funding the Hamas regime in Gaza. He wants to do the same in Syria, even if it means arming and financing al-Qaeda jihadis.

The chief financial backers of both the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamists worldwide and the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda dominated rebels in Syria have been Saudi Arabia and Qatar, while logistical support for the Syrian rebels has come from the Islamist regime of Turkey. What’s evolved in Syria is a Sunni vs. Shi’ite proxy war somewhat similar to the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980′s. The Syrian Sunni rebels have been augmented by Sunni jihadis from various places while the Assad regime has drawn on Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as well as Russian support. The rebels are losing because they’re running short on manpower, and the Saudis and Qataris want someone else to do the fighting.

That’s why they’ve dragged the United States into this.

If the rebels win, not only has President Obama gained some points with the Saudis, Turks and Qataris by putting together yet another hardline Islamist regime, but this one, like Egypt, will be on Israel’s borders. Jordan, where the Brotherhood is also quite strong will also be destabilized and may very well be the next piece of the Caliphate that is forming.

President Obama and his Secretary of State are already making demands of Israel that even Israel’s most die hard Leftists can’t support. When push comes to shove and if the inevitable war starts, don’t be surprised if President Obama cuts Israel off from armaments and supplies.

The Noisy Room: Emphatically, no. Not for us, any way — it’s a good idea for the Obama Administration as it creates more confusion for Americans and supports Islam. It depletes our military resources; it guts our Treasury (by 50 million a day), it creates illusions of security, while creating anxieties about security… in summary, if you are in the chaos business, this is a good thing.

We have just aligned ourselves with Turkey, al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. We are now at war, not only with Syria, but also — by proxy — Russia and Iran. There are bad guys on both sides, but by siding with the Muslim Brotherhood, we are actively pushing forth a worldwide Caliphate and Obama knows this. The CIA just announced that they are going to arm the rebels, which gives cover to the whole Benghazi atrocity and gives plausibility to Ambassador Stevens and the CIA running guns for the rebels. So, helping the rebels will provide cover for Obama and Clinton to a certain extent to justify their monstrous misdeeds. Glenn Beck predicted this and was right on the money. President Obama also signed a secret order giving support to Syrian rebels and John “we-have-nothing-to-fear-from-an-Obama-presidency” McCain visited them and gave them credibility as well. See a picture forming here? I do.

I firmly believe we have entered WW III and don’t even know it yet. Thanks to Obama, not only has this Administration destroyed America financially with the Cloward and Piven strategy and Alinsky tactics, he has discredited our military and defense agencies and now is ushering in the mother of all wars. Hell, he’s not reshaping America, he’s melting her down and helping to beat her into servile plowshares on the radical Islamic forge.

You are seeing radical Islam align with Marxists to accomplish ‘change’ globally into a hellish worldwide dictatorship. Under cover of this war, the Jihadists will attempt the destruction of Israel to further solidify the Caliphate. And I predict, either directly or indirectly, the U.S. will help them. We have chosen the wrong side and are heading down a very dark path. Syria is the gate to global hell.

Liberty’s Spirit: There are almost 100,000 dead and millions of refugees, but the redline for Obama was 150 killed with chemical weapons? What even happened to the “responsibility to protect” that was touted so much when he illegally intervened in Libya? Apparently that theory only works if your country has oil reserves that the Europeans want to protect and if Russia is not their “sugar daddy,” nor Iran their ally. Quite frankly this move at this time is insulting to the world’s intelligence. He is two years too late.

Interesting how when Obama could have intervened and perhaps influenced in some manner any democratically aligned members of the opposition he refused. Instead, those that helped the opposition were Sunni Islamists, mostly Wahhabis. So we are now going to help Islamists in Syria who think that after they destroy Assad their next goal is to destroy Israel and then the United States. The opposition has also been shown to commit many war crimes. They have butchered non-Sunnis and have slaughtered Christians. Their goal is to drive out any non-Moslem from Syria. These are not Jeffersonian Democrats, but another group of mass murderers.

In truth, Obama allowed Syria to become the new juxtaposition of the old “cold war,” with Putin asserting his influence in the Middle East through Assad and the West trying to catch up by influencing the Islamists on the opposition. (As if the Islamists have respect for the United States. Use the US yes they will, and then they will turn on us in no time, just like in Libya.) If the West had not waited Russia would not be as strong as it is today in the region and neither would Iran. But the problem is that the Obama administration has no idea what it is doing vis-à-vis foreign policy and especially in the Middle East. It has spent the last four years blaming every Middle East issue on Israel and specifically the settlements in Judea and Samaria. These foreign policy clowns allowed the Arab world to fall into chaos, they supported Islamist takeovers in major American allies, have threatened the few pro-American Arab regimes that still exist, and created a much more dangerous world for everyone.

The best part will be when this “Arab Winter” is all “over” the Obama administration is going to demand a “Peace Conference” where Israel is to give up Judea, Samaria, part of Jerusalem to the Islamist supporting and aligned PA (to appease the Saudis and all Obama’s Islamist friends) and then give back the Golan Heights to the murderers that will be governing Syria, whoever that will be. It’s already started with the US Secretary of State saying how the world blames Israel for all the Islamo-terrorism. This is the next phase in Obama’s foreign policy plan: sacrifice the Jews of Israel to appease the Islamists, as the world once sacrificed the Sudetenland to appease Hitler. Israel will sanely refuse. The war that will come between Israel and the Islamists will finally at least decide the region’s stability for a decade. And Israel will survive as she always has, because she relied only on herself and did not ask the world’s permission to survive. Meanwhile, Obama, because the inadequate can never take any blame themselves, will blame any and all devastation in the Middle East and its repercussions throughout the world, on the Jews and undercut Israel as much as he can. In their true nature as well, the leftist-Jewish-American-Obama-sycophants in the US will join in the Obama-blame-Israel-chorus. It’s coming, you mark my words.

The Razor: As a superpower we’re involved whether we want to be or not. Obama failed to realize this two years ago, but now evidently recognizes that saying “Assad’s days are numbered,” is meaningless unless you actually do something to make that statement true. Back then the Syrian opposition was much more secular and broad; today it’s devolved into a Sunni vs Shiite brawl with al Qaeda leading the most effective elements of the opposition. If al Qaeda suddenly renounced terror and promised to rescue kittens and give presents to dying children I’d still want to see them at the business end of a hellfire missile. The only thing we should help al Qaeda do is kill themselves.

When the enemy of your enemy is still your enemy, there isn’t much you can do except support both sides. So far we have supported the Iranians and Hezbollah by doing nothing, so in a sense that’s not a bad thing considering lots of jihadis have been sent to Paradise without us firing a shot – proof that inaction is an action of sorts. Now that they are losing, it is time to alter the balance in favor of the jihadis so that body bags get sent back to Teheran and south Lebanon. The easiest and safest way to do this is through a no-fly zone that would prevent Assad from using air attacks against the jihadis and resupplying his regime’s, Iran’s and Hezbollah’s troops.

With the addition of Susan Rice as the National Security Advisor and Samantha Power to UN ambassador, two liberal interventionists to posts of power, I’m not surprised to see Obama end his Hamlet imitation. They are probably fretting about the dead Syrian civilians, and although the humanitarian impulse in me exists, there is no reason I would risk my stepson’s life, or anyone else’s son or daughter, to fulfill this impulse. But the Machiavellian in me appreciates a good opportunity to bash America’s enemies on both sides of the dispute, and a no-fly zone allows this to happen without very much risk to American life or property.

I doubt anyone else would support intervening in Syria for this reason, and it’s a shame. It’s exactly what our politicians should be doing: thinking about what is best for America first, and letting the world sort itself out on its own.

Rhymes With Right: The problem here is that Obama’s commitment to the war is so vague that it can mean anything. Today it is weapons — how long until it is troops? And how will he ensure that the weapons given to fight in Syria will end up in the hands of non-terrorist, non-Islamist forces? I don’t see how he can.

Of course, maybe he can put each rebel through the same background check he wants for American citizens before they get guns — and then limit the number of rounds of ammo each gets to the same number he and other gun grabbers want to impose on Americans.

Bookworm Room: No. It might have been a good thing two years ago, when a little American oomph could have knocked Assad out of power and allowed room for reform. Two years and eighty-thousand dead bodies later, it’s too late. Syria is now mired in a proxy war between Iran and al Qaeda, with us now siding with al Qaeda — and we know how well that alliance will turn out based upon our experiences in Libya.

I predicted this in 2008. Not precisely this, of course, but I predicted that, with an obviously weak horse in the White House, all Hell would break loose somewhere or everywhere.

Well, there you have it.

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Helen Clark

Helen Clark is a committed socialist and is the former Prime Minister of New Zealand. She currently holds the position of Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme – the third highest position in the United Nations. She is, in addition, the Chair of the United Nations Development Group.

She was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008 and the leader of the NZ Labour Party from 1993 to 2008.

As a teenager, Clark became politically active, protesting against the Vietnam War and campaigning against foreign military bases in New Zealand. She also protested against nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

In 1970, Clark joined the Maoist dominated pressure group Halt All Racist Tours, which was against sporting contacts with South Africa. In the early 1970s, she was on the HART Executive Board and close to Maoist/Stalinists Michael Law and Trevor Richards.

While joining the Center-Left Labour Party, Clark has remained on the far left since her university days.

In 1987, National Party M.P., Michael Cox, while in Parliament, had this to say of Clark, who was then a possible Minister of Defence: “The M.P. for Mt. Albert has said in the House that she would rather have Russian Ships in the Pacific than American ones” and “she has made frequent trips to Russia, has a card for Aeroflot.”

In 2003, ACT Party M.P. Ken Shirley made the following observation of Clark, who at this point was the Prime Minister: “Prime Minister Helen Clark’s clear inability to confront her ghosts will cost New Zealand dearly. It was she who led the Labour Party’s anti-U.S. cabal in the 1980s, and it was this group that was determined to add the unnecessary Clause 11 to the 1987 legislation aimed at destroying the ANZUS Alliance.” (ANZUS stands for the now defunct Australia, New Zealand, United States military alliance.)

Clark moved a petition in Parliament on September 24, 1985, calling for withdrawal from all military alliances.

On June 3, 1986, the Press reported that Clark claimed “peace supporters are not communists.”

In 1989, Clark, along with fellow Labour M.P. Russell Marshall, met with the Auckland branch of the pro-Soviet Socialist Unity Party front, the New Zealand Council for World Peace, which was also an affiliate of the Soviet controlled World Peace Council.

On July 9, 1987, Clark tabled a petition in parliament from A.P. Quinn “and 311 others,” requesting the government appeal for a nuclear test ban. Clark moved that the petition “…be referred to the government for the most favourable consideration.” A.P. Quinn is Arthur P. Quinn, of the Waiwhetu Peace Group. Quinn was a member of the pro-Soviet Socialist Unity Party.

In 1986, Clark expressed concern that her long-distance phone calls were being monitored by U.S. sources: “They have the surveillance equipment to pick up long distance conversations and I believe mine would be of interest to them.”

In 1986, Clark visited Nicaragua along with Labour Party President Margaret Wilson. On her return to New Zealand, she urged the Labour Party to back aid for the revolutionary Marxist Sandinista government.

In 1986, Professor Jose Maria Sison was the Chief Political Consultant for the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, the coalition of groups which had, at that time, been waging an armed struggle for 35 years. Joma Sison was one of the founders of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its New People’s Army, in the late 1960s. He was captured during the Marcos martial law dictatorship and spent nine years as a political prisoner, without charge or trial, enduring torture. He was released after People Power 1 overthrew President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. That same year he made a speaking tour of several countries, including New Zealand. Clark was among those who attended his Wellington meeting.

It was revealed in 1986, that when Filipino intelligence officers raided an underground safe house in Manila on the night of March 24, 1988, they not only captured leading hard liners of the Communist Party of the Philippines New Peoples’ Army, but also 97 computer disks. A copy of a three-page document from one of those discs is headed: “Workshop 1: Party to Party Relations, June 13, 1986.” It deals with overseas work and those who are in consultation with the International Department of the Communist Party of the Philippines. On page three, line eight, Helen Clark is listed as the “individual link” for New Zealand.

In early 1987, Clark visited the Philippines as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Select Committee.

A former New Zealand government courted China and France in an attempt to curb American and Australian influence in the Pacific, according to a leaked diplomatic cable leaked by WikiLeaks in November of 2010.

New Zealand is also said to have formulated its anti-nuclear legislation, which caused a deep rift with Washington, because of a desire to trim its defense budget as well as for publicly stated ideological reasons.

The claims are made in a 2004 cable released by the WikiLeaks website under the heading: “What we could not say in the mission programme plan,” the Dominion Post newspaper reported.

The cable said New Zealand’s Labour Party government led by Helen Clark flirted with China and France in the early 2000s “to curtail U.S. and Australian influence in the region,” it said.

During a visit by the Chinese Vice-Minister for Trade, “New Zealand Trade Minister Jim Sutton publicly claimed that China was New Zealand’s most important and valued trading partner, a claim that left Australian officials here scratching their heads in wonder.”

It was a previous Labour government — led by David Lange — that introduced the anti-nuclear legislation in the 1980s, a move that led to a decades-long rift in intelligence and military co-operation between Wellington and Washington.

The cable said U.S. officials had been told by people who were senior New Zealand government officials at the time that Wellington knew the policy would lead to New Zealand being pushed out of the regional ANZUS alliance with the United States and Australia.

Exclusion from ANZUS would thereby lessen “the country’s defence spending requirements at a time of fiscal and economic crisis,” the cable said.

In a report in the People’s Daily, Chinese President Jiang Zemin referred to Clark as an “old friend.” He hoped to “establish bilateral long-term and stable overall cooperative relations with a healthy development geared to the 21st century,” and “broad prospects for bilateral economic cooperation.” Clark had strongly supported China’s entry into the WTO.

Clark eventually initiated a free-trade deal with China, making New Zealand the first Western nation to do so.

More here.