"Obamacare": More Socialism in America... Universal Healthcare

More Socialism in America: Universal Healthcare
By: J. D. Longstreet
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The charge by the democrats to set up a "National Health Insurance" program in America officially began with Obama signing the new CHIP bill, a few days ago, which extended health care coverage to 4 million uninsured children. The President was not the least bit bashful in announcing that his action, in signing the bill, was the first step in fulfilling his promise made during the campaign to provide universal health insurance for all Americans. To quote Obama he said: "As I think everybody here will agree, this is only the first step. Because the way I see it, providing coverage to 11 million children through CHIP is a down payment on my commitment to cover every single American."

Now, you may think this is just swell. We don't! In fact we are pledged to work as hard as we can to see that universal health insurance does not come to America.

Why? Mainly, for two reasons. First: because it is out and out socialism. That is why, dear reader, it is referred to as socialized medicine! The second reason, and just as important as the first, is the fact that socialized medicine will utterly destroy what is arguably, the best healthcare system on the planet!

Some of you will disagree with me, I'm sure. That is your right. But bear with me for a moment or two, and keep reading, and we will try to change your mind.

A few months ago I wrote the following, which is every bit as pertinent today as it was then, so I'm going to repeat it. Back then I wrote this:

We are continuing to lose our privacy, here in America, at an ever-increasing speed. There is hardly a place in America one can go, these days, without being seen by someone’s security cameras. I recently stood in a parking lot of one of the Big Box stores and counted 22 cameras zeroed in on the parking area, and entrances, and exits, to the store. And that was just on the OUTSIDE, at the front, of the store!

If you think Big Brother’s snooping is bad now just wait. It will get worse, a LOT worse, IF we allow it.

Weigh too much? Lose weight… or the government won’t pay for your medical bills.

Drive too fast? Slow down… or the government won’t pay for your medical bills if you’re in an accident.

Smoke? The government won’t pay for your medical bills, period.

Have more than (two) kids? Your medical bills will not be paid if you exceed the allowable limit on babies.

Pregnant with a third child and the government insists that you have an abortion, but you really want this third child? Well, either have an abortion, or that third child will have no medical coverage and the cost of the pregnancy, and delivery, will not be covered, either.

Didn’t finish High School? Your medical bills will not be covered if you do not get a High School Diploma (At least a GED).

Take the wrong courses in college? Well, if you didn’t check before you signed up for a course, and you signed-up for a course the government thinks is uncalled for, or that you do not need for your chosen occupation… then your medical bills will not be picked up by the National Healthcare.

Own a gun? Why, everyone knows there is an epidemic of deaths due to handguns in America. So it is a health issue. National Healthcare will not pay for your medical bills until you turn in your guns to the government!

Choose the wrong career, and you are on your own… no medical help from the government.

Get the picture? Almost total control. And you, and I, will have given that power to the government!

So, next time you hear someone calling for National Healthcare/Universal Healthcare, remind them of all the freedom they will give up for that "cradle to the grave" care. The founders of the United States of America wanted us to live free... healthy, if we could manage it, but free in any event. Today, it seems we are prepared to give up our freedom for a modern day form of Marxism... Socialized Medicine!

Ok, so what about the cost to Americans in dollars, per year? Right now, if the economy doesn't get any worse, (and I think we can agree that the economy is certainly going to get worse under the policies Obama is trying so desperately to set in place)... the universal healthcare program will cost us around 150 BILLION per year! The possible ten-year cost-out might be expected to exceed 3 TRILLION dollars. There is an excellent article over at the Washington Times we recommend. You'll find it HERE.

To make it even worse, it is expected the bill, when passed through the Congress, most likely will outlaw private health insurance, altogether. The democrats understand that to make the Universal Healthcare System work, at all, nobody can be allowed to have any form of insurance that is superior to the National Healthcare Program.

What about clandestine healthcare? You know... sneaking around to find a doctor who will treat you for a fee, off the books and out of sight of the government. Well, if you seek out a doctor, and have an examination, and pay the doc in cash, you and the doctor could both go to jail!

If you think medical care is bad now, wait until we have Obama’s national health insurance program. If you think government is intrusive now… just wait for “Obamacare.” Our every move will be monitored, and the government will direct us in every facet of our lives. To some of you that will be comforting, I’m sure. But to those of us who feel responsible for our own lives and take responsibility for them, it is pure, unadulterated horror! If you think the government is intrusive in your life now... just wait... you ain't seen nothing yet!

There is just so much to understand about how a national healthcare system would work that most Americans will never understand it... until it is too late and we are saddled with this horror from hell! It has become obvious, to those of us who actually pay attention to what our government is doing, that Obama, and his cohorts in Congress, plan to push the national healthcare bill (Obamacare) as hard and as fast as they can through the Congress before you and I can read the small print. Many, if not most, of the Congresspersons and Senators will NEVER read it all. And yes, they WILL vote on it without ever having read it.

It is time, actually it is past time, for all Americans who love freedom, to write, call, fax, telegram, or e-mail their Congressperson and Senators and urge them to fight against a National Healthcare Program bill that will suffocate the remaining freedom we have as Americans. There is not a minute to lose. The democrats are planning to make an attempt at running this thing through Congress at a record breaking speed to defy any chance you may have of acquainting yourself with what is in the actual bill itself.

Don't be suckered again, America! Universal healthcare is not democracy. It is socialism. Universal healthcare is not about healthcare. It is about power for the ruling class.

It is time to get your back up and act as an American. Playing the part of a wimp is Un-American! And lying down and rolling over for a Congress and a President whose intention is to acquire all the power possible for themselves at the expense of the common, everyday, American is skullduggery at the lowest level. And THAT, dear reader, is exactly what is going on in Washington today!

It is time to reclaim that which is rightfully ours... our freedom!

J. D. Longstreet

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United Nations' threat: No more parental rights

United Nations' threat: No more parental rights
"Expert: Pact would ban spankings, homeschooling if children object"
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Parents... YOU have to see this... and read it carefully... and then get hold of your Senators and insist that they vote against ratifying this treaty! Once ratified it becomes the law of the land... even though it originated in the UN!

Read the article at:
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Secret Trials and Continued Rendition the Obama Way!

Secret Trials and Continued Rendition the Obama Way!

By J. D. Longstreet

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What the heck is going on in Obama’s Oval Office? Is there something in the White House water? Here, of late, Obama’s actions tend to resemble, more and more, those of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

Remember Obama criticizing Bush for those Military Tribunals used to try captured terrorists… many of whom were/are incarcerated at Gitmo?? If you remember the campaign, to hear Obama tell it, why, it was terrible… truly awful to subject those poor terrorists to “secret” trials!

Well, guess what? Obama, himself, has approved “secret trials” for those same prisoners. Basically, all Obama has done is change the name of the court.

Under the Obama regime, they will not be Military Tribunals. It has been reported that the Obama administration may support the establishment of something called a “National Security Court,”, which will be, as we understand it, a court, within the civilian court system, to try Guantanamo prisoners and other alleged terrorists. But… the trials will be secret! So… is this hypocrisy, or political correctness… or both? It looks to us as if all the Obama administration will have done is… change the name of the court and change the judges clothing from military uniforms to civvies!

Look, Military Tribunals are as old as the country itself. (actually older) They became especially useful to the US government during, and immediately after, the American Civil War. The point is… there is nothing new about the use of Military Tribunals by the US.

In the sort of trials necessary, when trying “enemy combatants,” certain “facts” out of necessity, must be, and will be, brought out in testimony. Included will be certain information, which if made public in a public trial would, without doubt, give aid to the enemies of the US. There is no doubt the enemy would use it against us in their covert war, and even their overt war, resulting in the deaths of more Americans. So, the US cannot allow this information to be made public. No country can allow that.

There must, of necessity, be a way to try these individuals without endangering the lives of Americans or compromising the security of the country. There is. They are called Military Tribunals.

Obama continually complained about the use of those military tribunals and vowed to get rid of them if elected. Well, he was elected.

It can be an amazing transformation to watch someone who has only a portion of the truth suddenly change his public stance on an issue… once he has all the facts, isn’t it?

As President Obama was suddenly included “in the loop.” apparently, it became clear to him that the trials of those terrorists must be kept secret. But, he had to save face as well. So, the idea of the National Security Court is being floated around, in our opinion, only as a way to avoid embarrassment for Obama. In our opinion, Obama couldn’t make himself look anymore foolish than he already did by making such a naive vow to get rid of the Military Tribunals! It was just a dumb thing to say when he only had a portion of the facts at hand. Again, the National Security Court, if it becomes reality, will be nothing more than a “CYA move” by the Obama administration… nothing more.

What about rendition? That is the practice of shipping the prisoners overseas to prisons in countries friendly to the US, but countries that do not hew as closely to the “no torture type of inquisition” of prisoners as does the US. Well, under the new Obama rules, guess what? The renditions will continue!

There is some talk that the prisoners may be shipped to prisons in their homelands, whenever possible. Sounds humane, now doesn’t it. Well, maybe. But consider the systems of justice in many of the prisoner’s homelands. I mean, some of them don’t worry a great deal about “prisoner’s rights.” Their methods haven’t change much since, oh, about the 12th century. Some of them still practice beheading! But putting them in prisons in their homelands SOUNDS nice to our liberal brethren and sisteren.
Don’t you just hate it when someone thinks you are gullible enough to buy into the empty promises of politicians, any politician, especially when they are so arrogant as to be blatantly obvious about putting the lie to those promises as soon as they are sworn into office? Oh, wait! 53 % of the American electorate did just that!

The election of Obama was a victory for ignorance in America. As we watch the Obama appointments for the various government agencies in the Obama administration forced to take their names out of consideration, for one reason or another, Americans are getting out of bed each morning, pouring that first cup of coffee, and anxiously opening their morning newspapers to acquaint themselves with the latest Obama blunder. Less than a month in office and the Obama administration has become a joke. But 47% of the American electorate isn’t laughing!

Note from Ed:

Here are two articles in which you may be interested..

From the LA Times entitled:"Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool"
You'll find it HERE.

And this one from the World Socialist Website entitled: ""Obama's orders leave framework of torture, indefinite detention intact"

You'll find it HERE.

J. D. Longstreet

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The New Bad Deal ... by Alan Caruba

The New Bad Deal

By Alan Caruba

In 1939, ten years after the crash on Wall Street, the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., told the House Ways and Means Committee:

“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong…somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises…I say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started…And an enormous debt to boot!”

Does history repeat itself? Yes, it does. And there is every appearance that the White House and the Congress intends to repeat many of the errors of the last Depression that came to be known as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal.

With exquisite timing, after ten years of research, professor of history, Burton Folsom, Jr. has published “New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR’s Economic Legacy has Damaged America” ($27.00, Threshold Editions).

To get an idea of just how bad the U.S. economy was during the 1930’s, Folsom notes that, even though the U.S. had budget surpluses in 1930 and 1931, government spending “ballooned and far outstripped revenue from taxes.” It was the Wall Street Crash of 1929 that precipitated the Depression, but it was FDR’s “solutions” that deepened and lengthened it, actually preventing any solution.

Initially voted into office in 1933, from 1937 to 1939 “the value of all stocks dropped almost in half…Car sales plummeted one-third in those same years, and were lower in 1939 than in any of the last seven years of the 1920s. Business failures jumped 50 percent from 1937 to 1939; patent applications for inventions were lower in 1939 than for any years of the 1920s. Real estate foreclosures, which did decrease steadily in the 1930s, were still higher in 1939 than in any years during the next two decades.”

FDR was an enormously popular President in his day. His photo could be found everywhere in people’s homes and apartment, in barbershops, in businesses, and just about anywhere people gathered, but he not only did not solve the nation’s economic problems, he made them worse with the help of a Congress. By 1936 Congress was totally dominated by the Democrat Party in ways that exceeded any previous party for 150 years.

Obama’s youth and lack of experience to occupy the Oval Office should worry people. He arrived with a very slim resume and not even a single completed term as a Senator. What he knows and believes about the conduct of business in America is anyone’s guess, but it clearly reflects that bad economic policies of his party that have got us to this point.

As Prof. Folsom points out, “In part, his family’s wealth immunized him from having to learn how business worked or how to earn money.” He had been a mediocre student, getting by with a C average. Though he did not finish law school, he did pass the bar exam, but he showed little talent or interest in the practice of law. Oliver Wendell Holmes later observed of Roosevelt that he had “a second class intellect, but a first-class temperament.”

It was Roosevelt’s sunny and apparently endless optimism that buoyed up a nation that listen to his radio “fireside chats” and speeches. He was always convinced that whatever new program the New Dealers tried was bound to turn the economy around. Not only did they not achieve this, they saddled generations of Americans with a Ponzi scheme called Social Security and poured money into states and areas for solely political, not economic, purposes.

FDR was Governor of New York when the Wall Street Crash precipitated the Depression. Prof. Folsom identified several factors that led up to it. The First World War (U.S. participation from 1917-1918) had been a financial and social catastrophe that drove up the national debt from $1.3 to $24 billion in just three years. Ten billion loaned to European nations during the war largely went unpaid after the conflict.

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, debated and passed during 1929 and 1930, instituted the highest tariffs ever, intended to protect U.S. industries by taxing 3,218 imported items. It enraged Europe, the nation’s greatest trading partner at the time. “Our exports, therefore, dropped from $7 billion in 1929 to $2.5 billion in 1932” and, with them, went the jobs of Americans.

“The third cause of the Great Depression,” writes Prof. Folsom, “was the poor performance of the Federal Reserve…In practice, the Fed had raised interest rates four times, from 3.5 to 6 percent, during 1928 and 1929. This made it harder for businessmen to borrow money to invest, which hindered economic growth.” In addition, the Fed let hundreds of banks fail rather than lending them money to continue operating.

In the same way President Obama spoke of “spreading the money around” as his economic plan to keep Americans prosperous, FDR spoke of a “more equitable distribution of the national income.” Giving money to people who don’t even pay taxes is an example of this.

Roosevelt and his “brain trust” of academics, most of whom had never met a payroll in their lives, really put the nation’s economy on the skids with their National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933. “It allowed American industrialists to collaborate to set the prices of their products, and even the wages and hours that went into making them.” The competition in the marketplace ceased and one could actually be sent to jail for offering a product or service for less than the fixed amount.

The NRA and the Agricultural Adjustment Act both had what are commonly called “unintended consequences”, another way of saying that were the worst possible solution because they imposed a centralized planning structure that involved the vast expansion of the federal government to oversee their requirements. Paying farmers not to plant crops, a practice that exists to this day was one of the more idiotic aspects of the AAA.

If this current recession is ever to be ended, massive spending programs that are largely political in nature have to be avoided. Isolating the bad debt acquired by banks, loan companies, and others like the insurance giant, AIG, has to be the top priority.

It is not likely to happen. President Obama, combining the same charm and lack of business acumen as FDR, is likely to pursue the same course of action as he did; he will use the present crisis to build up support for the Democrat Party through various forms of patronage. Employment by various government agencies is likely to expand.

FDR’s popularity was conditional during his first two terms in office. The American public knew he and Congress were not ending the Depression. Today, polls clearly indicate that the American public considers wants the economy strengthened. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press recently released the findings of a national survey that revealed the economy and jobs are the top priority; higher than at any point in the past decade.

Thus, spending millions or billions to construct “more than 3,000 miles of transmission lines to convey this (solar and wind) new energy from coast to coast” repeats the errors of the past. Solar and wind represent barely one percent of the electricity generated or needed nationwide. The solar and wind farms are always located far from the major urban centers that require megawatts of electricity, currently provided primarily by coal and nuclear power. How much better and wiser it would be to update the current electrical grid and to build plants closer to where they are needed than to waste money on just this one project?

Politics, the pursuit of power, and the liberal’s distrust of capitalism will likely force a new generation of Americans to repeat what those in the 1930s experienced for no good reason.

Alan Caruba writes a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/. Every week, he posts a column on the website of The National Anxiety Center, http://www.anxietycenter.com/.

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I Do Not Hate Obama!

I Do Not Hate Obama!
J. D. Longstreet

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A few days ago, a dear friend, who happens to be a liberal, accused me of hating Obama. At first I was shocked. Then I began to reason it out and came to understand that the intolerance, within which the liberal left lives, would certainly trigger that extreme response to one who simply does not agree with another man’s political philosophy.

I do not hate Obama. I don’t even KNOW the guy! What I DO know and what I DO hate is his socialist political philosophy. You know, I might even lighten up a bit on socialism if it were not a proven fact of history that it destroys nations and rots free men’s souls. It is the most cruel of all political philosophies on the earth currently. Some day there might be something worse, but, frankly, I cannot see how anything short of Satan, himself, setting up rule on earth that could possibly be any worse that socialism and Obama is the leader of the socialist movement in America today, by right of his having gained the office of President of the United States.

It is Mr. Obama’s socialism I hate.

Of course, he has many other failings. He is quite likely the most naive President this country has ever had. He has, indisputably, a “Messiah Complex”. The Messiah Complex is said to be the will, the intention, and yes, the compulsion to be a messiah, to be the redeemer and savior of the world. Surely you have seen this complex in Mr. Obama. And this is what makes it so troubling: The messianic wish is not just a wish to improve things generally for the better, but the wish of that person with the complex TO BE, personally, the messiah, the redeemer, of the world.

People with the messiah complex are dangerous. You see, if a group of people considers an individual to be a messiah, that person doesn't actually have to claim to be a messiah himself. But if he is treated as such, by his followers, then he can, rightly, be said to be a person with a Messiah Complex. Confusing, what? What you then have… is a cult. I think it is safe to say we have a national cult built around Mr. Obama in this country today… and it is headed toward disaster.

Mr. Obama strikes me as a person with a strong Inferiority Complex, as well. As such, he must (he is compelled to) continually prove his superiority. In an individual this can lead to all sorts of trouble. In an individual who happens to be a leader of a nation it can lead to national disaster. All one has to do is look to the history of the nation of Germany to learn how a leader with a monstrous inferiority complex can lead a nation to ruin.

I can’t see how anyone, having observed the outpouring of love for the man, (or messiah) Obama, during the two years of campaigning leading up to his election can possible deny there is an Obama cult in America. What makes it doubly dangerous is the fact that it has, indeed, become a national cult very similar to that in Germany in the 1930’s.

Then, there is Mr. Obama’s globalist view. His IS a globalist. Globalists believe... at their core, in global governance… a one world government. That is another Utopian idea of the leftists, the Marxists and the Socialists

Having said all this... let me reemphasize that Mr. Obama’s overt socialism troubles me more than any of the other problems of this, in my opinion, deeply flawed man. Of all his problems this is the one that will bring the most pain and suffering to the people of this nation.

It is some comfort to know that 46% of the electorate of this country were not taken in by the slick packaging of Mr. Obama, which played on his would be messiah image. That means that a little less than half of the electorate have not loss their grasp on reality.

The question now is... how long before the cult, which has sprung up around Mr,. Obama, will turn on him? And turn on him they will, for he certainly cannot fulfill their hopes and dreams and the incredibly high expectations they have of their "messiah".

Mr. Obama is doomed to failure. I hate the effects of what will happen between the people of the Obama cult and the sane people in this country when Obama’s failure becomes so acute that even the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party, the Mainstream Media, will not be able to cover it up with their reams of propaganda.

No, I don’t hate Mr. Obama. I hate what he stands for and what he represents… mainly socialism.

J. D. Longstreet

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Obama Prepares To Talk With Iran; Israel Prepares To Attack

Obama Prepares To Talk With Iran; Israel Prepares To Attack

J. D. Longstreet

As it becomes more and more likely that the Obama regime is going to embrace Iran, Israel appears to have given up any hope it had that the US, under Obama, would be a real friend to Israel and assist in Israel’s coming attack on the Persian nation to destroy their Atom Bomb making capabilities.

With Israel’s election a little less than two weeks away now it is looking more likely that our favorite Benjamin Netanyahu is going to be the next Prime Minister of Israel. A former Israeli Special Forces officer, Bebe Netanyahu is no push over and he seems always ready for a fight. He will not hold back from a preemptive strike against Iran.

Netanyahu said last week at the World Economic Forum that neutralizing Iran's leaders would reduce the danger posed to Israel and others by Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah militants in south Lebanon. "We have had two wars with two Iranian proxies in two years and Persia has now two bases on the eastern Mediterranean," said Netanyahu. He went on to say: “"I think we are going to have to deal with neutralizing the power of the mother regime." The “mother regime,” of course, is the country of Iran, itself.

The new US Secretary of State is going to have her hands full with Bebe. Mrs. Clinton may be smart, but Netanyahu is no slouch in the brains department and he is quick on his feet and a fighter to boot. And, unlike so many world leaders today, including “The Obama”, Netanyahu is not fooling himself as to Iran’s actions nor Iran’s intentions once she possess the atom bomb. Netanyahu said: "We have never had, since the dawn of the nuclear age, nuclear weapons in the hands of such a fanatical regime,”. He said Iran’s possession of the nuclear bomb is the world’s greatest challenge at the start of this new century.

Hamas, according to Netanyahu, will never be at peace with Israel. He questions what kind of agenda Israel can have with an organization that seeks to wipe Israel from the face of the planet. Netanyahu insists that stopping Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons ranks above dealing with the meltdown of the world’s economy, explaining that the economy problems are reversible, but Iran obtaining nuclear weapons is not.

You’ll find an excellent article on this HERE.

Meantime, back at the ranch… here in the states, of course, Obama's aides have drafted a letter in his name to Iranian leaders that aims to thaw relations between the two countries. This is according to an article in “The Guardian”, a British newspaper. The Guardian goes on to say that at least three drafts of the letter have been composed. The report says the letter seeks to assure the Iranian leaders that the US does not want to change the regime in Iran, the US merely seeks to change the behavior of the Persian state.

Although the letter will be addressed to the Iranian people it will be sent directly to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, or it may be released as an just an open letter.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is calling for an apology, from the US, for what it feels are past wrongs done to Iran by the US. Ahmadinejad is quoted as having said: "Those who say they want to make change, this is the change they should make: They should apologize to the Iranian nation and try to make up for their dark background and the crimes they have committed against the Iranian nation,"

So, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton begins her tenure in office and she cannot look forward to dealing with these two hot spots on the map. She should understand that, hopefully, with Netanyahu at the helm in Israel, Israel will do pretty much what Israel chooses simply because the Israeli government does not trust the Obama government. Israel will not be seeking guidance or input from the US when it comes to matters of Israel’s national security.

As far as Iran is concerned… Iran is going to do whatever it wants regardless of what the US promises, even after an apology from the US. Iran wants to see the US grovel as it did during the Carter administration. Ahmadinejad is convinced the US has another Carter in the White House and, on that, we agree with Ahmadinejad.

If we could make a simple suggestion to the Obama regime, which would solve both problems at once, we would suggest that the US shut up, and get out of Israel’s way and allow the IDF to take care of the Persian Problem. But don’t hold your breath. With a Prima Donna in the White House and another at the office of Sec. State they are not about to allow anything to happen without their very public fingerprints all over it. After all, whatever it is, it is, first and foremost, about them!

J. D. Longstreet
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Obama’s Climate Czar Listed as Member of Commission Sponsored by Socialist International

Obama’s Climate Czar Listed as Member of Commission Sponsored by Socialist International

For details on this eye-opening story see the article HERE.

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