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		<title>Glenn Beck’s The New Republic: America’s Future (Day 5)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck concluded last night with Day 5 of his week-long series — The New Republic: America’s Future. See See Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3, and Day 4. Go to GlennBeck.com for updates. Beck&#8217;s posts for the day: In or Out 2010 and A Call to Action. If you need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7476550&amp;post=224&amp;subd=thefourthrepublic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://therealbarackobama.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/beck-glenn2.jpg?w=150&#038;h=103" alt="Beck, Glenn" title="Beck, Glenn" width="150" height="103" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-24366" />Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck concluded last night with Day 5 of his week-long series — The New Republic: America’s Future. </p>
<p>See See <a href="http://thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/glenn-beck’s-the-new-republic-america’s-future-day-1/">Day 1</a>, <a href="http://thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/glenn-beck’s-the-new-republic-america’s-future-day-2/">Day 2</a> and <a href="http://wp.me/pvmZw-2y">Day 3</a>, and <a href="http://thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/glenn-becks-the-new-republic-americas-future-day-4/">Day 4</a>.</p>
<p>Go to <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/">GlennBeck.com</a> for updates. Beck&#8217;s posts for the day: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,544163,00.html">In or Out 2010</a> and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,544162,00.html">A Call to Action</a>. If you need to catch up on the series before watching below, Beck provided a <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29831/">recap</a> yesterday of shows for Day 1 through Day 4.</p>
<p>USNews&amp;World Report&#8217;s Robert Schlesinger said August 28 <a href="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2009/08/28/glenn-beck-cant-spell.html">Beck Can&#8217;t Spell</a>. Ah, but <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2009/08/29/glenn_beck_finally_spells_oligarch_correctly.php">Lefties pwnd</a>. Watch:</p>
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<p>Plus, from Beck&#8217;s radio show, we have &#8220;Know Your Czars&#8221;.</p>
<p>Van Jones:<br />
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<p>Cass Sunstein:<br />
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<p>Peter Orszag:<br />
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<p>John Holdren:<br />
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		<title>Glenn Beck&#8217;s The New Republic: America&#8217;s Future (Day 4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck continued last night with Day 4 of his five-day series — The New Republic: America’s Future. Go to GlennBeck.com for updates. In particular read Beck&#8217;s August 27 article, Barack Obama&#8217;s Civilian Army. See Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3. By the way, NewsBusters reports that Beck&#8217;s show wins Wednesday&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7476550&amp;post=212&amp;subd=thefourthrepublic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://therealbarackobama.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/beck-glenn2.jpg?w=150&#038;h=103" alt="Beck, Glenn" title="Beck, Glenn" width="150" height="103" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-24366" />Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck continued last night with Day 4 of his five-day series — The New Republic: America’s Future. </p>
<p>Go to <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/">GlennBeck.com</a> for updates. In particular read Beck&#8217;s August 27 article, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543822,00.html">Barack Obama&#8217;s Civilian Army</a>.</p>
<p>See <a href="http://thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/glenn-beck’s-the-new-republic-america’s-future-day-1/">Day 1</a>, <a href="http://thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/glenn-beck’s-the-new-republic-america’s-future-day-2/">Day 2</a> and <a href="http://wp.me/pvmZw-2y">Day 3</a>.</p>
<p>By the way, NewsBusters reports that Beck&#8217;s show <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/27/glenn-beck-wins-wednesdays-cable-news-ratings-battle">wins Wednesday&#8217;s cable news ratings battle</a>, meaning while CNN and MSNBC did wall-to-wall Ted-Kennedy&#8217;s-dead coverage, Fox News Channel <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/fox_tops_ratings_during_kennedy_coverage_cnn_sees_boost_129639.asp">smoked&#8217;em</a>. And Erick Erickson <a href="http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/08/27/hows-that-glenn-beck-boycott-working-out-for-you-pathetic-lefitsts/">comments</a> at RedState.com: &#8220;By the way, did you know that a number of the advertisers they claim are boycotting Beck <i>have never even advertised on his show</i> — that’s like saying I’m boycotting Timbuktu because I’ve never had an occasion to go there.&#8221; </p>
<p>Obama Says We Need Civilian National Security Forces. Why?<br />
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<p>NBC Sells Obama Momentos in Company Store.<br />
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<p>Is the National Civilian Security Force Obama Wants AmeriCorps?<br />
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<p>Are SEIU and ACORN Forming Massive Organizations?<br />
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<p>Is a Group or Groups Driving the Bus for Obama?<br />
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<p>Friday the Gloves Come OFF! A Shepherd, not a Sheep!<br />
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		<title>Batchelor: Eight Cows</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Batchelor writes on his blog: These American League of Voters lobbyist-created 32 seconds challenging the Obama administration&#8217;s healthcare reform notions just went viral thanks to the report that ABC, NBC and even CBS have questions about the facts. I have watched this video three times and cannot find any fact that can be challenged. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7476550&amp;post=209&amp;subd=thefourthrepublic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>John Batchelor <a href="http://johnbatchelorshow.com/debrief/2009/08/eight-cows-volunteer.php">writes</a> on his blog:</p>
<p>These American League of Voters lobbyist-created 32 seconds challenging the Obama administration&#8217;s healthcare reform notions just went viral thanks to the report that ABC, NBC and even CBS have questions about the facts. </p>
<p>I have watched this video three times and cannot find any fact that can be challenged.  </p>
<p>There is the logic issue.  If 8 cows are doing just fine in a pasture, and you add two more cows, will they do as well? This is a debatable fact? Hilarious. </p>
<p>Let&#8217;s try it again. Eight cows in a pasture. They volunteer to eat less so that two more cows can join them. Yes, I know. What kind of a cow volunteers to eat less? It was a tricky partisan example.  </p>
<p>The answer is, you need a bigger pasture &#8212; or two of the volunteers have to leave.</p>
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		<title>Steven Crowder: ASTROTURF JERKS!! (Crowder Goes Liberal)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<title>Klein: Obama adviser&#8217;s response to 9-11 attacks: Solidarity with victims of U.S. imperialism&#8217;. White House &#8216;rowdy communist&#8217; held vigil for Muslims, decried &#8216;those who will lose lives in American retaliation&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, reports: One day after the 9-11 attacks, the organization founded by President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;green jobs czar&#8221; held a vigil in which it expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well what it called the victims of &#8220;U.S. imperialism&#8221; around the world. WND previously reported Van [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7476550&amp;post=193&amp;subd=thefourthrepublic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://thefourthrepublic.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/jones-van-3.jpg?w=221&#038;h=300" alt="Jones, Van 3" title="Jones, Van 3" width="221" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-200" />Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, reports:</p>
<p>One day after the 9-11 attacks, the organization founded by President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;green jobs czar&#8221; held a vigil in which it expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well what it called the victims of &#8220;U.S. imperialism&#8221; around the world.</p>
<p>WND previously <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=94771">reported</a> Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is an admitted black nationalist and radical communist. </p>
<p>Jones was the leader and founder of a radical group, the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM.</p>
<p>STORM&#8217;s official manifesto, titled, &#8220;Reclaiming Revolution,&#8221; has <a href="http://www.leftspot.com/blog/files/docs/STORMSummation.pdf">surfaced on the Internet</a>.</p>
<p>A WND review of the 97-page treatise found a description of a vigil that Jones&#8217; group held on September 12, 2001, in Snow Park in Oakland, CA.  The event drew hundreds and articulated an anti-imperialist line, according to STORM&#8217;s own description.</p>
<p>The radical group&#8217;s manual boasted the 9-11 vigil was held to express solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans, to mourn the civilians killed in the terrorist attacks, &#8220;as well as the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We honored those who lost their lives in the attack and those who would surely lose their lives in subsequent U.S. attacks overseas,&#8221; STORM&#8217;s manifesto recalls.</p>
<p>On Wednesday night, Fox News Channel&#8217;s Glenn Beck drew attention to a section of STORM&#8217;s manual that describes Jones&#8217; organization as having a &#8220;commitment to the fundamental ideas of Marxism-Leninism.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We agreed with Lenin&#8217;s analysis of the state and the party,&#8221; reads the manifesto.  &#8220;And we found inspiration in the revolutionary strategies developed by Third World revolutionaries like Mao Tse-tung and Amilcar Cabral.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cabral is the late Marxist revolutionary leader of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands. </p>
<p>WND previously reported Jones named his son after Cabral and reportedly concludes every e-mail with a quote from the communist leader. </p>
<p>STORM&#8217;s newsletter boasted &#8220;we also saw our brand of Marxism as, in some ways, a reclamation.&#8221;</p>
<p>STORM worked with known communist leaders. It led the charge in black protests against various issues, including a local attempt to pass Proposition 21, a ballot initiative that sought to increase the penalties for violent crimes and require more juvenile offenders to be tried as adults.</p>
<p>Speaking to the East Bay Express, Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots, during which time he was arrested. </p>
<p>&#8220;I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th,&#8221; he said. &#8220;By August, I was a communist. </p>
<p>&#8220;I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, &#8216;This is what I need to be a part of.&#8217; I spent the next 10 years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary,&#8221; he said. </p>
<p>Trevor Loudon, a researcher and opponent of communism who runs the <a href="http://newzeal.blogspot.com/">New Zeal blog</a>, identified several Bay Area communists who worked with STORM, including Elizabeth Martinez, who helped advise Jones&#8217; Ella Baker Human Rights Center, which Jones founded to advocate civil justice. Jones and Martinez also attended a &#8220;Challenging White Supremacy&#8221; workshop together. </p>
<p>Martinez was a long time Maoist who went on to join the Communist Party USA breakaway organization Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, or CCDS, in the early 1990s, according to Loudon. Martinez still serves on the CCDS council and is also a board member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, where she sits alongside former Weatherman radicals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. </p>
<p>STORM eventually fell apart amid bickering among its leaders. </p>
<p>Jones then moved on to environmentalism. He used his Ella Baker Center to advocate &#8220;inclusive&#8221; environmentalism and launch a Green-Collar Jobs Campaign, which led to the nation&#8217;s first Green Jobs Corps in Oakland, Calif. </p>
<p>At the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007, Jones announced the establishment of Green For All, which in 2008 held a national green conference in which most attendees were black. Jones also released a book, &#8220;The Green Collar Economy,&#8221; which debuted at No.12 on the New York Times&#8217; bestseller list – the first environmental book written by an African American to make the list. </p>
<p>Jones, formerly a self-described &#8220;rowdy black nationalist,&#8221; boasted in a 2005 interview with the left-leaning East Bay Express that his environmental activism was a means to fight for racial and class &#8220;justice.&#8221; </p>
<p>Jones was president and founder of Green For All, a nonprofit organization that advocates building a so-called inclusive green economy. </p>
<p>Until recently, Jones was a longtime member of the board of Apollo Alliance, a coalition of labor, business, environmental and community leaders that claims on its website to be &#8220;working to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Klein: Chief Palestinian justice: Jewish temples never existed. Slams rabbis as &#8216;liars,&#8217; claims Jews not tied to Jerusalem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, reports: The Jewish temples never existed and Jews have no historic connection to Jerusalem, declared chief Palestinian justice Sheikh Taysir Tamimi today. Tamimi condemned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for stressing in Europe this week the long Jewish connection to Jerusalem. Tamimi claimed &#8220;all Jewish rabbis and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7476550&amp;post=195&amp;subd=thefourthrepublic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://thefourthrepublic.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/temple-mount.jpg?w=225&#038;h=300" alt="Temple Mount" title="Temple Mount" width="225" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-197" />Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, reports:</p>
<p>The Jewish temples never existed and Jews have no historic connection to Jerusalem, declared chief Palestinian justice Sheikh Taysir Tamimi today.</p>
<p>Tamimi condemned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for stressing in Europe this week the long Jewish connection to Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Tamimi claimed &#8220;all Jewish rabbis and extremist organizations” as well as Netanyahu are lying when they state Jerusalem was an historially Jewish city.</p>
<p>He called such claims &#8220;baseless and untrue. Jerusalem is an Arab and Islamic city and it always has been so.” </p>
<p>Contradicting finds from scores of archeological digs, Tamimi claimed all of Israel’s archaeological work since 1967 has not proven “that Jews ever had a history or presence in Jerusalem, or that their ostensible temple had ever existed.&#8221;</p>
<p>During a WND exclusive interview in March 2007 (link: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=40628), Tamimi, one of the most influential Muslim leaders in Israel, took his assertions even further, arguing the Western Wall really was a tying post for Muhammad&#8217;s horse, the Al Aqsa Mosque was built by angels, and Abraham, Moses and Jesus were prophets for Islam. </p>
<p>Tamimi is considered the second most important Palestinian cleric after Muhammad Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. </p>
<p>&#8220;Israel started since 1967 making archeological digs to show Jewish signs to prove the relationship between Judaism and the city, and they found nothing. There is no Jewish connection to Israel before the Jews invaded in the 1880s,&#8221; said Tamimi. </p>
<p>&#8220;About these so-called two temples, they never existed, certainly not at the [Temple Mount],&#8221; Tamimi said during a sit-down interview in his eastern Jerusalem office. </p>
<p>The Palestinian cleric denied the validity of dozens of digs verified by experts worldwide revealing Jewish artifacts from the First and Second Temples throughout Jerusalem, including on the Temple Mount itself; excavations revealing Jewish homes and a synagogue in a site in Jerusalem called the City of David; or even the recent discovery of a Second Temple Jewish city in the vicinity of Jerusalem. </p>
<p>Tamimi said descriptions of the Jewish Temples in the Hebrew Tanach, in the Talmud and in Byzantine and Roman writings from the Temple periods were forged, and that the Torah was falsified to claim biblical patriarchs and matriarchs were Jewish when they were prophets for Islam. </p>
<p>&#8220;All this is not real. We don&#8217;t believe in all your versions. Your Torah was falsified. The text as given to the Muslim prophet Moses never mentions Jerusalem. Maybe Jerusalem was mentioned in the rest of the Torah, which was falsified by the Jews,&#8221; said Tamimi. </p>
<p>He said Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Jesus were &#8220;prophets for the Israelites sent by Allah as to usher in Islam.&#8221; </p>
<p>Asked about the Western Wall, Tamimi said the structure was a tying post for Muhammad&#8217;s horse and that it is part of the Al Aqsa Mosque, even though the Wall predates the mosque by more than 1,000 years. </p>
<p>&#8220;The Western Wall is the western wall of the Al Aqsa Mosque. It&#8217;s where Prophet Muhammad tied his animal which took him from Mecca to Jerusalem to receive the revelations of Allah.&#8221; </p>
<p>The Kotel, or Western Wall, is an outer retaining wall of the Temple Mount that survived the destruction of the Second Temple and still stands today in Jerusalem. </p>
<p>Tamimi went on to claim to WND the Al Aqsa Mosque, which has sprung multiple leaks and has had to be repainted several times, was built by angels. </p>
<p>&#8220;Al Aqsa was built by the angels 40 years after the building of Al-Haram in Mecca. This we have no doubt is true,&#8221; he said. </p>
<p>The First Temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Second Temple was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian captivity. That temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire in A.D. 70. Each temple stood for a period of about four centuries. </p>
<p>The Temple was the center of religious worship for ancient Israelites. It housed the Holy of Holies, which contained the Ark of the Covenant and was said to be the area upon which God&#8217;s presence dwelt. All biblical holidays centered on worship at the Temple. The Temples served as the primary location for the offering of sacrifices and were the main gathering place for Israelites. </p>
<p>According to the Talmud, the world was created from the foundation stone of the Temple Mount. It&#8217;s believed to be the biblical Mount Moriah, the location where Abraham fulfilled God&#8217;s test to see if he would be willing to sacrifice his son Isaac. </p>
<p>The Temple Mount has remained a focal point for Jewish services for thousands of years. Prayers for a return to Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the Temple have been uttered by Jews since the Second Temple was destroyed, according to Jewish tradition. </p>
<p>The Al Aqsa Mosque was constructed in about A.D. 709 to serve as a shrine near another shrine, the Dome of the Rock, which was built by an Islamic caliph. Al Aqsa was meant to mark what Muslims came to believe was the place at which Muhammad, the founder of Islam, ascended to heaven to receive revelations from Allah. </p>
<p>Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran. It is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible 656 times. </p>
<p>Islamic tradition states Muhammad took a journey in a single night on a horse from &#8220;a sacred mosque&#8221; – believed to be in Mecca in southern Saudi Arabia – to &#8220;the farthest mosque&#8221; and from a rock there ascended to heaven. The farthest mosque became associated with Jerusalem about 120 years ago. </p>
<p>According to research by Israeli Author Shmuel Berkovits, Islam historically disregarded Jerusalem as being holy. Berkovits points out in his new book, &#8220;How dreadful is this place!&#8221; that Muhammad was said to loathe Jerusalem and what it stood for. He wrote Muhammad made a point of eliminating pagan sites of worship and sanctifying only one place – the Kaaba in Mecca – to signify the unity of God. </p>
<p>As late as the 14th century, Islamic scholar Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya, whose writings influenced the Wahhabi movement in Arabia, ruled that sacred Islamic sites are to be found only in the Arabian Peninsula and that &#8220;in Jerusalem, there is not a place one calls sacred, and the same holds true for the tombs of Hebron.&#8221; </p>
<p>A guide to the Temple Mount by the Supreme Muslim Council in Jerusalem published in 1925 listed the Mount as Jewish and as the site of Solomon&#8217;s Temple. The Temple Institute acquired a copy of the official 1925 &#8220;Guide Book to Al-Haram Al-Sharif,&#8221; which states on page 4, &#8220;Its identity with the site of Solomon&#8217;s Temple is beyond dispute. This, too, is the spot, according to universal belief, on which &#8216;David built there an altar unto the Lord.&#8217;&#8221; </p>
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		<title>New Presidential Sponsor</title>
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		<title>Glenn Beck&#8217;s The New Republic: America&#8217;s Future (Day 3)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck continued last night with Day 3 of his five-day series — The New Republic: America’s Future, including discussion with Rush Limbaugh (transcript) and Karl Rove, about avowed Communist &#8220;Green Jobs Czar&#8221; Van Jones, the Apollo Alliance and the involvement of former Weather co-founder Jeff Jones in creating the stimulus bill; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7476550&amp;post=158&amp;subd=thefourthrepublic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://therealbarackobama.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/beck-glenn2.jpg?w=150&#038;h=103" alt="Beck, Glenn" title="Beck, Glenn" width="150" height="103" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-24366" />Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck continued last night with Day 3 of his five-day series — The New Republic: America’s Future, including discussion with Rush Limbaugh (<a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_082609/content/01125116.guest.html">transcript</a>) and Karl Rove, about avowed Communist &#8220;Green Jobs Czar&#8221; Van Jones, the Apollo Alliance and the involvement of former Weather co-founder Jeff Jones in creating the stimulus bill; Mark Lloyd, Obama&#8217;s FCC &#8220;Diversity Czar&#8221; (who just so happens to admire Hugo Chavez&#8217;s revolution) and the coming attack on Freedom of Speech; and hidden agendas. (Note: The White House emailed Beck&#8217;s producers disputing the use of the term &#8220;czar&#8221;.)</p>
<p>Go to <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/">GlennBeck.com</a> for updates. In particular read today&#8217;s article, <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29753/">Speak Without Fear</a>.</p>
<p>See <a href="http://thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/glenn-beck’s-the-new-republic-america’s-future-day-1/">Day 1</a> and <a href="http://thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/glenn-beck’s-the-new-republic-america’s-future-day-2/">Day 2</a>. NewsBusters has <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/08/26/rush-beck-warn-obama-administration-trying-bring-country-its-knees">more</a> on last night&#8217;s show.</p>
<p>As Victor Davis Hanson <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjJjMjdiOTg3MGU2OTk2YzUxMTNiZTZiMGYxYzQ0MTg">commented</a> August 22 at NRO:</p>
<ul>Now the problem is not just that health care is going down, but that in the process the administration has tarnished the blue-chip Obama brand, and we are in a sort of emperor-has-no-clothes moment.</ul>
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		<title>Batchelor: Pachyderm Dross</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Batchelor writes on his blog: Adding the reappointment of Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to the long chosen Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Keynesian gurus Larry Summers and Austan Goolsbee now completes the Obama administration financial team. The shrewd David Wessel, WSJ, (above) asserts that from now on it is POTUS to fault or praise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7476550&amp;post=169&amp;subd=thefourthrepublic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>John Batchelor <a href="http://johnbatchelorshow.com/debrief/2009/08/pachyderm-in-the-room.php">writes</a> on his blog:</p>
<p>Adding the reappointment of Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to the long chosen Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Keynesian gurus Larry Summers and Austan Goolsbee now completes the Obama administration financial team.   </p>
<p>The shrewd David Wessel, WSJ, (above) asserts that from now on it is POTUS to fault or praise for the performance of the economy, no more blame-shifting to the Bush administration. </p>
<p>This is a dry observation. Of course the blame-shifting will continue.  It will grow scales and a beard and span the continent. The Bush Panic of 2008 is the pachyderm in the room that will never leave and that the GOP must drag along like a cross of dross forever. </p>
<p>POTUS may suffer disappointments, but he will never suffer for excuses.</p>
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		<title>Klein: White House stonewalls on &#8216;radical&#8217; advisor. Won&#8217;t explain how admitted &#8216;rowdy communist&#8217; became &#8216;green jobs czar&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda J. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, reports: More than five months after the Obama administration announced the hiring of its &#8220;green jobs czar,&#8221; Van Jones (right), the White House has refused to explain whether it knew of Jones admitted black nationalist and radical communist history and just who hired the advisor. Also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefourthrepublic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7476550&amp;post=172&amp;subd=thefourthrepublic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://therealbarackobama.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/jones-van-by-eddie-adams1.jpg?w=244&#038;h=300" alt="Jones, Van by Eddie Adams" title="Jones, Van by Eddie Adams" width="244" height="300" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-24358" />Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=108083">reports</a>:</p>
<p>More than five months after the Obama administration announced the hiring of its &#8220;green jobs czar,&#8221; Van Jones (right), the White House has refused to explain whether it knew of Jones admitted black nationalist and radical communist history and just who hired the advisor. </p>
<p>Also questions continue to fester about how Jones, who has an arrest history, passed security clearances for his White House position.</p>
<p>Cliff Kincaid, an editor at Accuracy in Media, <a href="http://www.aim.org/aim-column/glenn-beck-closing-in-on-van-jones/">attempted to answer</a> some of these questions when he used the Freedom of Information Act in April to request immediate access to all documents relating to the appointment of Jones to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, where he serves as special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation.</p>
<p>The Council, which hired Jones, replied that it &#8220;searched its records system and found none responsive&#8221; for Kincaid&#8217;s request.</p>
<p>The Council recommended more information be sought at the White House Press Office, which did not respond to Kincaid&#8217;s requests about on how Jones was hired.</p>
<p>The White House also did not reply to numerous WND requests for comment. </p>
<p>Fox News Channel&#8217;s Glenn Beck program similarly asked the White House whether it was aware of Jones radical history.</p>
<p>The White House provided the following response: &#8220;Mr. Jones is entirely focused on one policy goal: building clean energy incentives which create 21st century jobs that improve energy efficiency and utilize renewable resources.&#8221;</p>
<p>The lack of available information concerning Jones is unusual since the Obama transition team previously touted it developed a seven-page questionnaire that included 63 questions about an applicant&#8217;s background and qualifications for a federal job. Kincaid pointed out that CNN reported the document was to be for &#8220;every candidate for Cabinet and other high-ranking positions in the incoming administration.&#8221;  </p>
<p>However, there is no information Jones ever filled out the document.</p>
<p>Also, there are open questions as to how Jones obtained a White House security clearance. He spent time in jail several times, including in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots. </p>
<p>Jones was the leader and founder of a radical communist and black nationalist group, the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. The organization had its roots in a grouping of black people organizing to protest the first Gulf War. STORM was formally founded in 1994, becoming one of the most influential and active radical groups in the San Francisco Bay area.</p>
<p>STORM worked with known communist leaders. It led the charge in black protests against various issues, including a local attempt to pass Proposition 21, a ballot initiative that sought to increase the penalties for violent crimes and require more juvenile offenders to be tried as adults. </p>
<p>The leftist blog Machete 48 identifies STORM&#8217;s influences as &#8220;third-worldist Marxism (and an often vulgar Maoism).&#8221; </p>
<p>Speaking to the East Bay Express, Van Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots, during which time he was arrested. </p>
<p>&#8220;I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th,&#8221; he said. &#8220;By August, I was a communist.&#8221; </p>
<p>&#8220;I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, &#8216;This is what I need to be a part of.&#8217; I spent the next 10 years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary,&#8221; he said. </p>
<p>Trevor Loudon, a researcher and opponent of communism who runs the New Zeal blog, identified several Bay Area communists who worked with STORM, including Elizabeth Martinez, who helped advise Jones&#8217; Ella Baker Human Rights Center, which Jones founded to advocate civil justice. Jones and Martinez also attended a &#8220;Challenging White Supremacy&#8221; workshop together. </p>
<p>Martinez was a long time Maoist who went on to join the Communist Party USA breakaway organization Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, or CCDS, in the early 1990s, according to Loudon. Martinez still serves on the CCDS council and is also a board member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, where she sits alongside former Weathermen radicals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. </p>
<p>One of STORM&#8217;s newsletters featured a tribute to Amilcar Cabral, the late Marxist revolutionary leader of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands. </p>
<p>The tribute is noteworthy because Jones reportedly named his son after Cabral and reportedly concludes every e-mail with a quote from the communist leader. </p>
<p>STORM eventually fell apart amid bickering among its leaders. </p>
<p>Van Jones then moved on to environmentalism. He used his Ella Baker Center to advocate &#8220;inclusive&#8221; environmentalism and launch a Green-Collar Jobs Campaign, which led to the nation&#8217;s first Green Jobs Corps in Oakland, Calif. </p>
<p>At the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007, Jones announced the establishment of Green For All, which in 2008 held a national green conference in which most attendees were black. Jones also released a book, &#8220;The Green Collar Economy,&#8221; which debuted at No.12 on the New York Times&#8217; bestseller list – the first environmental book written by an African American to make the list. </p>
<p>Jones, formerly a self-described &#8220;rowdy black nationalist,&#8221; boasted in a 2005 interview with the left-leaning East Bay Express that his environmental activism was a means to fight for racial and class &#8220;justice.&#8221; </p>
<p>Jones was president and founder of Green For All, a nonprofit organization that advocates building a so-called inclusive green economy. </p>
<p>Until recently, Jones was a longtime member of the board of Apollo Alliance, a coalition of labor, business, environmental and community leaders that claims on its website to be &#8220;working to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs.&#8221;</p>
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