The Blogger Who Nailed Van Jones

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September 8, 2009

The Blogger Who Nailed Van Jones

Cliff Kincaid

If the Van Jones resignation is blamed on his statements about Republicans and 9/11, a great lesson will have been lost. As we argued in a previous column, “It’s the communism, stupid.” If people don’t recognize the dangers of having a communist in the White House, then the nature of the scandal will not have been understood. Blogger Trevor Loudon of New Zealand broke the story on April 6th and has some thoughts on what happened and where this story is heading.

 

His main point is that Van Jones and Barack Obama share the same Marxist ideology and background. Obama, however, is more careful and clever.

 

There’s an old saying, “If you don’t know where you’re going, it doesn’t matter which road you take.” As Trevor Loudon argues, Jones and Obama know precisely where they’re going. And the Jones resignation doesn’t mean that Obama will take a detour from the road that he wants to take the country on. Indeed, as Loudon explains, they are both on the same road.

 

The development of the scandal, which was seized upon by World Net Daily, Glenn Beck and other media outlets and personalities, began in Loudon’s research into the existence of communist networks. Loudon blogs at www.newzeal.blogspot.com. A compilation of his most important articles on Jones can be found here.

 

Loudon tells me, “I began to investigate Van Jones after seeing several separate pieces of information. I first came across the name in the mid 1990s in a New Zealand socialist publication which had a small clip about Van Jones – a Yale educated lawyer involved in STORM – Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement. The name stuck.”

 

While researching the far-left think Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which Loudon considers the Obama administration’s “ideas bank,” Loudon found a piece by IPS staffer Chuck Collins recommending Van Jones for a top government job. A September 26, 2008 article, posted on the IPS website by Chuck Collins, offered 22 names they thought would make suitable appointments for an Obama administration. He included, “Van Jones, of the Ella Baker Center, to direct the Commerce Department’s new ‘green jobs initiative.’”

 

Remember that this was before the election.

 

“I researched Jones again at that point and found he was a fellow at the Center for American Progress,” Loudon says, referring to the George Soros-funded entity.

 

Then a few days after the election he found a statement from former Weather Underground terrorist leader Mark Rudd, who was trying to ease fellow leftists’ concerns at some of Obama’s so-called “moderate” or “conservative” appointments, mostly in the economic realm. Rudd declared:

 

“Obama plays basketball. I’m not much of an athlete, barely know the game, but one thing I do know is that you have to be able to look like you’re doing one thing but do another. That’s why all these conservative appointments are important: the strategy is feint to the right, move left. Any other strategy invites sure defeat. It would be stupid to do otherwise in this environment.

 

“Look to the second level appointments. There’s a whole govt. in waiting that [John] Podesta has at the Center for American Progress. They’re mostly progressives, I’m told (except in military and foreign policy). Cheney was extremely effective at controlling policy by putting his people in at second-level positions.”

 

Podesta was co-chair of the Obama-Biden Transition Team.

 

When Jones was appointed “Green jobs Czar” in March 2009 at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Trevor got serious. His first article about Jones’ communist connections appeared on April 6th, prompting me to file a series of Freedom of Information Act requests into the question of who recommended and hired Jones. I reported the results, which amounted to Obama Administration stonewalling, in an in an August 25th column.

 

Loudon explains how relatively easy it was to ascertain the basic facts about Jones: “It didn’t take more than a few keystrokes to realize that STORM was very influential in the San Francisco Bay Area and had ties to both the Cuban and South African Communist Parties. Jones’ group – and particularly Jones himself – had ties to two former Weather Underground supporters – Jon and Nancy Frappier and the Bay Area branch of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. Jones was the keynote speaker at a CCDS fundraiser in Berkeley as late as February 2006.”

 

This Bay Area branch of the CCDS is basically the same “alliance” of former Weathermen, ‘60s Maoists and modern communists who supported Obama in Chicago, Loudon explains.

 

Explaining more of the connections, Loudon goes on, “Two of Jones’ Bay Area radical friends, Betita Martinez (a former Maoist and CCDS member) and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (a former Maoist and one-time Weatherman supporter), served on the board of Movement for a Democratic Society, along with Weather underground leaders Mark Rudd and Bernardine Dohrn.”

 

He adds, “Obama’s old friend Bill Ayers was also involved, as were leaders of CCDS, including Angela Davis, who works with several Bay Area STORM alumni, leaders of the Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America and several Institute for Policy Studies trustees and personnel, including E. Ethelbert Miller, Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher Jr. The last two are members of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and founders in 2008 of Progressives for Obama.”

 

Obama’s socialist backing goes back at least to 1996, when he received the endorsement of the Chicago branch of the DSA. Our February 14, 2008, AIM Column, “Obama’s International Socialist Connections,” explains all of this.

 

Now that Jones has resigned, Loudon says that “the focus needs to go on who hired him and why an easily identifiable communist revolutionary with a police record could serve as a presidential adviser.”

 

He explains, “The Obama administration boasted of its extreme vetting procedures, so I find it unlikely that if a blogger from New Zealand could identify Jones as a communist militant that the White house didn’t know.”

 

In terms of the evidence about who recommended and hired Jones, Loudon says that the focus that Accuracy in Media has put on far-left Oakland Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee is correct, since she was “almost certainly complicit in getting Jones hired.” Lee is chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, was a presidential campaign adviser to Obama, and is a friend of Jones and Obama. Jones and Lee worked together on “green jobs” in Oakland.

 

At the same time, Obama’s “brain” Valerie Jarrett is on tape as saying “they” have been watching Jones for years and were happy to recruit him. Since Jarrett is in the White House, “the spotlight must go on Jarrett,” Loudon argues. “But eventually it must come back to the president himself.”

 

He explains, “Jones and Obama have worked with the same people all the way.”

 

For example, Loudon notes that “In 1999 Obama was called to New York to set up a left-wing think tank called Demos. He served for a time on the Demos board of trustees. Jones is still listed a member of the Demos board. Demos is a partner organization to the Institute for Policy Studies and also works closely with ACORN and Project Vote – names very familiar to any Obama watcher.”

 

Explaining the rise of Van Jones, Loudon says, “Seven years ago Van Jones was a Bay Area Alinskyite street communist. After hooking up with the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Democratic Socialists of America, former ‘60s Maoists, Weather Underground supporters and Demos, he managed to land a job in the White House.”

 

By comparison, “Twenty-two years ago Barack Obama was a Chicago Alinskyite ‘community organizer.’ After hooking up with the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Democratic Socialists of America, former ‘60s Maoists, Weather Underground supporters and Demos, he managed to land a job in the White House.”

 

Just a coincidence?

 

Loudon concludes, “Jones’ resignation is a blow for the left and a victory for freedom, but it is only the beginning in unmasking a whole series of White house radicals. They may not have been as loud mouth and indiscreet as Van Jones ―but that makes them more dangerous, not less. Millions of Americans now have some inkling of what is happening to their country. Now is the time to amp up the pressure and research.”

 

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of Accuracy in Media, and can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org.

COPYRIGHT 2009 FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS INC.

[maddog55]

Unfortunately there’s still a few communist left in the in the White House.. Obama, Emanual etc.. not to mention Congress’ Reid & Pelosi.

[aquila48]

“As Trevor Loudon argues, Jones and Obama know precisely where they’re going. And the Jones resignation doesn’t mean that Obama will take a detour from the road that he wants to take the country on.”

Couldn’t agree more. Now is not the time to relax.

[shankbear]

It is time to “Van Jones” the nutjob, Cass Sustein. He wants to give animals the right to sue people. Wrap your head around that. I am going to be a penguin plaintiffs lawyer. Free the penguins.

[GnuHere]

Van Jones makes a better verb than czar.

[upchuck]

IMHO, it does not matter who gets the praise for Jones leaving.

The important things to me are that he is gone (although he’ll stick around as an “unpaid” advisor to -8nobama), and that a bunch of people sharpened their skills at routing out stuff about these god awful people.

We need to leave ego and power grabbing at the door and keep going. Sunstein and/or Lloyd should be next, IMHO.

[smoothsailing]

The important things to me are that he is gone (although he’ll stick around as an “unpaid” advisor to -8nobama),

Heard today on either Rush or Beck that Van Jones has already landed a job at John Podesta's Center for American Progress, a Marxist think tank in D.C.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"While researching the far-left think Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which Loudon considers the Obama administration’s “ideas bank,” Loudon found a piece by IPS staffer Chuck Collins recommending Van Jones for a top government job...I researched Jones again at that point and found he was a fellow at the Center for American Progress,” Loudon says, referring to the George Soros-funded entity. "

OK, so the Vast British-Wing conspiracy and not Beck.

"He explains, “Jones and Obama have worked with the same people all the way.” For example, Loudon notes that “In 1999 Obama was called to New York to set up a left-wing think tank called Demos. He served for a time on the Demos board of trustees. Jones is still listed a member of the Demos board. Demos is a partner organization to the Institute for Policy Studies and also works closely with ACORN and Project Vote – names very familiar to any Obama watcher.”

Same far Left loon circles.

"Explaining the rise of Van Jones, Loudon says, “Seven years ago Van Jones was a Bay Area Alinskyite street communist. After hooking up with the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Democratic Socialists of America, former ‘60s Maoists, Weather Underground supporters and Demos, he managed to land a job in the White House.” By comparison, “Twenty-two years ago Barack Obama was a Chicago Alinskyite ‘community organizer.’ After hooking up with the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Democratic Socialists of America, former ‘60s Maoists, Weather Underground supporters and Demos, he managed to land a job in the White House.” Just a coincidence?"

No, but a few steps have been left out in Obama's progression from Alinskyite street agitator through the secret handshake foundations to Soros funding and backing from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Malthusian global socialist foundations to be their puppet and front man for the population control agenda. It's obvious this was decided at a very high level to use him for this.

[humblegunner]

there’s still a few communist left in the in the White House

CommunistS.. plural.

Obama, Emanual etc

Rahm Emanuel.. you spelled his name wrong.

I'm just sayin'...

[nascarnation]

Is that like a football “practice squad” where Soros can keep leftists on the payroll between government assignments?

[alrea]

Now that Jones has resigned, Loudon says that “the focus needs to go on who hired him and why an easily identifiable communist revolutionary with a police record could serve as a presidential adviser.”

Then maybe figure out who enabled Obama and what they want to do next.

[Cindy]

” does not matter who gets the praise for Jones leaving.”

It’s not about praise — it’s about how the blogger picked up certain names, his reasearch and the process of his research.

It’s useful to read this article to understand how to pick up more names other than Van Jones and how these names are connected with each other.

As my elementary math teach used to say, “Don’t just give me the answer — show your work.”

[jazusamo]

Jones has already landed a job at John Podesta's Center for American Progress, a Marxist think tank in D.C.

That figures, Podesta was on Glenn Beck's case for forcing Jones's demise, nothing but a nest of vipers.

Good article.

[trisham]

Van Jones may have “resigned”, but he’s not gone.

[GOPJ]

Now that Jones has resigned, Loudon says that “the focus needs to go on who hired him and why an easily identifiable communist revolutionary with a police record could serve as a presidential adviser.”

I'm sure the FBI had this information - and that someone over-rode the FBI warning. Who was THAT person?

[combat_boots]

“It’s obvious this was decided at a very high level to use him for this.”

The Sock puppet in Chief had to know walking into the voting precinct that the fix was in. He & Ayres went back to the house for eggs, chickens coming home to roost and all that. I knew that look and modern step n fetchit style walk when I saw it, but I didn’t want to believe it at the time.

[stevie_d_64]

Nawww, Reid and Pelosi aren’t communists...

They are useful idiots...They do not know what a communist is, even though they see one just about every other day...

[Osage Orange]

They know.....

They know.

They ain't that dumb.

[penelopesire]

PING!!

(snip)

“He explains, “Jones and Obama have worked with the same people all the way.”

For example, Loudon notes that “In 1999 Obama was called to New York to set up a left-wing think tank called Demos. He served for a time on the Demos board of trustees. Jones is still listed a member of the Demos board. Demos is a partner organization to the Institute for Policy Studies and also works closely with ACORN and Project Vote – names very familiar to any Obama watcher.”

What a network of commies! I WANT TO SEE WHERE ALL THE STIMULUS MONEY WENT!! I guarantee you that our taxdollars went into lots of these type organizations(we know ACORN got money)!

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

They only get that cocky when they come back from the secret handshake
meeting having been given the keys. In hindsight, McCain didn't seem like he
was really trying either, did he?

OK, so they picked Obama because he has always been such a big fan
of the University of Texas Longhorns.
And had some really shifty Communist friends with community organizing experience.

[outhousepatrol]

NEW ZEALAND BLOGGER! lol “Racist” white people all over the world are out to expose Barry. More to come, the vise is is tightening.

[GOPJ]

Isn’t it odd how no one in the MSM was able to find any of this stuff?

[GOPJ]

Isn’t it strange that NO ONE in the MSM was able to find any of this?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

It's only strange if you disregard that the MSM talking heads belong to the same population control cabals and secret societies which funded and sponsored Obama's upward mobility to the White House. They have looked the other way on a lot of things.

[upchuck]

Agree with you 100%. Let’s get after them.

Go back and read my second sentence.

[Fred Nerks]

By comparison, “Twenty-two years ago Barack Obama was a Chicago Alinskyite ‘community organizer.’ After hooking up with the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Democratic Socialists of America, former ‘60s Maoists, Weather Underground supporters and Demos, he managed to land a job in the White House.”

and with a little help from his muslim friends...

[GVnana]

Gotta love that new media.

[smoothsailing]

Isn’t it odd how no one in the MSM was able to find any of this stuff?

I'm sure they found it, they just didn't report it. Such news doesn't fit their template.

[smoothsailing]

Sure do. It gives us a weapon.

[smoothsailing]

Good analogy. I also see it as part of a shadow government.

[Liz]

....... “now the focus needs to go on who hired Jones and why an easily identifiable communist revolutionary with a police record could serve as a presidential adviser.” ........ I'm sure the FBI had this information - and that someone over-rode the FBI warning. Who was THAT person?

FBI is under DOJ---has to be USAG Holder.

More likely the Ovomitons are routinely colluding and conspiring to undermine US national secruity, to get their hand-picked cronies into gov't.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Trevor Loudon is a great freedom fighter who exposes the Communists who are working to destroy our freedoms. His blog is one of the best anti-communist info resources in the world. He presents info you won’t find anywhere else. His columns on Van Jones were great. He deserves a lot of credit for helping to bring down this Obamunist.

[GOPJ]

Good point - it doesn’t fit the liberal “story”...

[hoosiermama]

Many thanks to our friends down under...We are again in your dept!

[hoosiermama]

FYI

[GOPJ]

You might want to take a look at this Recovering...

[GBA]

Now is not the time to relax.

Thank you for your post. I couldn't agree more and it needs to be said over and over again. Jones is simply one battle and thankfully we seem to have won this one...but it is only one battle. We've been lucky obama and Jones made this easy. We must not become as overconfident as they have become or as the republicans became before they sold out the country.

Speaking of...the republicans are essentially worthless, little better than demonrats. There are a few who are standouts, but they are the outstanding exceptions. Sorry to say it, but the republican rinos and moderates are a part of the problem and must be defeated and the party remade or abandoned. I still have hope for the party of Reagan, but I'm a realist.

We, the People, are beginning to wake up, but outrage and anger only last so long before the majority go back to sleep again. As you said, now is not the time to relax.

[smoothsailing]

the Ovomitons

That's perfect!!!

[GretchenB]

Over ten years ago I posted here my Presidential Treason Series 101 through 105 on Clinton in the mistaken belief there would be a big disruption at Y2K. Clinton had all his ducks in a row for a crisis. The laws and his executive orders made the unconfirmed Sandy Berger in charge of just about everything. They had to wait 8 years for their next chance.

The Secretaries and other confirmed members of the Executive branch are for show, with the czars (Obama’s Politbiuro) that could not be confirmed given all the power. This was seen when Judd Gregg was appointed only to find out his power (the census) was to be moved to the White House.

IMHO this team of czars is in place not only to destroy the country, but take over in case of an emergency. And with all the spending there is bound to be another financial crisis or, with his insane foreign policy, heaven forbid another terrorist attack. Can you imagine Martial Law under this radical group...

Keep up all your good work and God Bless Glenn and Fox!

[Liz]

Thanks-—thought it was pretty good, myself.

[GretchenB]

Who here has done the digging into Alinsky? We need to attack the radicals with their own playbook. The reason MoveOn and the other radicals are having so much trouble is that they practiced on the likes of ACORN and those looking for a cult – ACORN only wants more welfare and most are on Medicaid and the cult followers have achieved their goal – that leaves the radical community organizers advertising for paid followers.

Our movement will last because there is not much more important than freedom, but there needs to be some sort of plan – we need a retired FBI profiler or such to turn the Alinsky tables on them.

[maggief]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/01/house-passes-significant_n_194473.html

House Passes Significant Credit Card Regulation In Bipartisan Vote

(snip)

Demos, a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization for which I work, has conducted has demonstrated through research that in a market with almost no rules, low-income families and households of color pay disproportionately high costs for credit card borrowing, in the form of painfully high interest rates and excessive penalty fees. And when the economy slows and unemployment rises, more and more families are forced to rely on credit card debt to cover shortfalls in income. In short, the absence of basic regulation in the credit card market is making this recession deeper for those already on the bottom.

This is the message we took to the Treasury on Wednesday, when Secretary Geithner invited Demos and other stakeholders in the consumer advocacy and civil rights communities to meet Ms. Araujo and discuss principles for credit card reform. Besieged borrowers cannot hold on for another year. Still reaping the consequences of the subprime debacle, banks are openly increasing interest rates and fees on their credit card customers in order to cover losses in other areas. As lenders turn the screws on cardholders, delinquencies have reached an all time high.

Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank warned during debate on the House bill that if banks appeared to be gouging customers in the run-up to the new rules, he would seek a quicker implementation in the final negotiations with the Senate, which may take up its version of the measure as soon as next week.

“I work as a financial crimes investigator and so I knew what to look for,” Ms. Araujo told us on Wednesday. “A lot of other people do not.” Let's hope Members of Congress can recognize abuse when they see it and act quickly to snuff it out.

Caleb Gibson, a Harvard graduate, is the Advocacy and Legislative Coordinator at Demos, a non-partisan public policy, research and advocacy organization founded in 2000. Caleb comes to Demos from the U.S. Senate, where he served for many years both as a legislative aide and as a speech writer.

http://www.demos.org/pubs/psn_7_28_09.pdf

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alinsky/index?tab=articles
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/rulesforradicals/index?tab=articles

[smoothsailing]

Thanks for your post, and I certainly agree with you, there’s a reason for all these czars; and it’s not for the betterment of our Republic.

[GOPJ]

bttt

[GretchenB]

Thanks, Cindy!

The Alinsky for Conservatives was just what I was looking for!

[Pelham]

bttt

[penelopesire]

Sounds just like another ACORN commie group out to do the very same things that blew up our economy in the first damn place. Loaning money to people that can’t afford it and then taking our money to pay their bills when they default! This should piss everyone in this country off! We pay our bills and act responsibly and now we get to pay their bills too! It’s an outrage!

I noticed that Robert Reich is on board there too along with Obama and Van Jones! Little midget commie moron!

Thanks for the ping to what you dug up.

[bushwon]

He came up with some interesting conclusions. I am going to check his website to see what else he has blogged since the election! New Zealand —great country.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“More likely the Ovomitons are routinely colluding and conspiring to undermine US national secruity, to get their hand-picked cronies into gov’t.”

I’ll wager there are a dozen or more “Ovomitrons” who are dirty, and pose a serious national security risk. Beck probably has a few “deep throats” (CIA, FBI?) feeding him info. Obama’s enemies(patriotic Americans) are accumulating
rapidly ;-)