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Now you can watch DPRK North Korea TV LIVE on the Net
On Aug 10, 7:59 pm, wrote:
On Aug 10, 4:39 pm, "Rev. Bonghits4jesus' LTD" Watch streaming North Korean television 24 hours a day! Here --- http://www.vunet.org/videos/tv_north...north-340.html Excellent, the world needs a source of truth, we certainly aren't getting it from the corporate controlled media in the "LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE DECEIVED..." Is Communism Dead? Lee Wha Rang - 09/21/96 Some Western press and politicos have been saying that "Communism is dead" and that North Korea is the only remaining "Stalinist" country - which too is about to collapse. The fact is that Communism is very much alive. Communism has not died, but it's main ideas have been absorbed into other political ideologies, just as pre-Christ religious beliefs were gradually adapted into Christianity and other religions (In fact, on e finds many Christian ideals in Communism.) Actually, Marx took his inspiration from Jewish philosophy and thought. This isn't antisemitic libel-Israeli journalist Gershom Gorenberg has noted that ideas found in the writings of Rabbi Yitzhak Luria, known to his followers as "The Sacred Lion", are echoed in Communism. Hints of kabalism and its sacred text, the Zohar, are also found in Marx's work. Marx came from a long line of rabbis-his family had converted to Christianity two generations before his birth to escape persecution, but Marx's German government ID cards said he was a "Jude". Marx was extremely well read and likely read Luria's works, the Zohar, and many others before formulating Communism. Jews have always been attracted to Communism-everybody from Trotsky (who changed his name from Bronstein) to Emma Goldman (once the most hated woman in America because of her total challenge to Victorianism) had Jewish roots. David Horowitz has written several books about growing up in a family and community of Jewish Communists. Where is Communism alive today? There are 'Communist' parties in many countries, but only few governments today are controlled by so-called 'Communists' (Cuba, China, N Korea, Vietnam, and a number of the former Soviet-bloc nations). It may sound stran ge but many Communist ideas are alive and well in the United States (there is 'Communist Party of USA' which has a presidential candidate for the November election) and other democratic, socialist and indeed, dictatorial nations. Is America Red? In the good old 'anti-Communist' US of A, one finds many Communist ideas in practice as expounded below: Ten Communist planks implemented in America. Communism USA 1)Abolition of property (rights) in land and application of all rents (taxes) of land to public purposes Zoning, School tax (from Property "rents") Equitable interest in land, no alodial title. No free holders. Accomplished: 14th Amend U.S. Const. 1868. Title 17 health and safety code. A stretch. In true Communism, all land is owned by "the people", which means the state. Taxing land is not the same as seizing it, as Communists have always done. 2) A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 501 (c)(3) corporate churches/businesses. Income tax - IRS (Title 26) Fed. tax can take up to 88% of income. Social Security. Public Property (state police powers). Accomplished: 16th Amend U.S. Const. 1913. Social Security Act 1936. JHR 192, 1933 This was the main plank of the Populists in 1896. You get this one. 3) Abolition of all right to inheritance. Limited inheritance via inheritance tax. Accomplished: Estate tax 1916 Inheritnace taxes only apply to big estates. Usually, Communists have abolished ALL inheritance, with people forfeiting all possessions to the state upon death. A tax on monetary inheritance isn't exactly the same, with the rich keeping their land and homes, and everybody keeping personal possessions such as cars and other knick knacks of everyday life. In some states people who go bankrupt can keep a "homestead", which can be any real property, even a multimillion dollar mansion. Texas is one notable example. Florida also has lax property laws. 4) Confiscation of the property of emigrants and rebels. Confiscation of drug-merchant property "War on Drugs" IRS confiscation of private property without due process. RICO Act (Racketeering Influenced & Corrupt Organizations) Imprisonment of "terrorist" and those who write or speak against the government. Accomplished: Public Law 99-570 1986. Established 1970. Sedition Act 1798 also used in 1940's and 1988. ALL governments imprison those who get to be a big enough threat. It depends on how you define "rebel" or in Communist parlance "counterrevolutionary" but Communists typically have a broader usage than Western governments. 5) Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. Federal reserve Banks. All local banks use credit & are members of Fed. reserve System and regulated by the U.S. Govt. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Accomplished: Federal Reserve Act 1913. Federal Reserve Act 1933. The weird thing is that national banks predate Communism. Read up on The Bank of the United States sometime. If you want to point to the Bank of England, that goes back even farther. Again, it's semantics. Since individual depositors do not open accounts with the Fed, it's technically not an exclusive monopoly. It is tightly regulated. 6) Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state. Interstate Commerce Commission. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) US Civil Aeronautics. Federal Aviation Agency (FAA). Accomplished: ICC Act 1887. The Commissions Act 1934. Est 1938. Est 1958. This has usually meant state owned media, which is not the case in America, unlike everywhere else. It is arguable that some media is not regulated at all, such as shortwave radio and the internet. America does not have a state airline or a nationally owned rail or telephone system, which is also unique. (There is Amtrak, but freight is far more important, and that is private. Amtrak leases track usage from the corporations.) 7) Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state, the bringing into cultivation of wastelands, and the improvement of the soil generally with a common plan. Anti-trust Acts. Department of Commerce and Labor. Dept. of Agriculture. Dept. of Interior (Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, Nat'l Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service). Accomplished: Established 1 902. Established 1903. Established 1862. Established 1849. The Bureau of Reclamation really fits here-their intention was to make the Nevada desert bloom, specifically the Churchill and Lahontan Valleys in western Nevada near Reno. Agriculture did take hold in the Lahontan Valley, giving birth to the town of Fallon, which still produces renowned canteloupes. The rest of the agencies cited are really stretching it though. 8) Equal liability of all labor (for the National debt). Establishment of industrial armies, especially for Agriculture. "Two income families" because of inflation and National debt. Woman's Suffrage. Affirmative action. Socialist Unions. International Workers of the World (Chicago). Accomplished: Women in the work place 1920's 19th Amend., U.S. Const. 1920. Civil Righ ts Act 1964. Established 1869. Established 1905. I'm not sure what an "industrial army" is, but something like it existed during World War 2. I don't know where unions fit in-unions haven't espoused socialism for 90 years. 9) Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country. Farms lost to "the suburbs" and manufacturing/commercialism. Perverted technology/ corporate farms. National farmers Alliance and Industrial Union. Accomplished: 1880-1990's (Title 17 "Zoning") Took hold 1910-1990's/ 1870's-1880's. The weird thing is, America fits more than Europe, where the distinction between city and country is more abrupt. During the height of the Cold War, something like equal population distribution was seriously proposed in America, to negate the impact of a nuclear war. Science fiction writer Robert Heinlein even wrote a short essay on how it might work. Chillingly, his vision looks a lot like what the Khmer Rouge tried to do. Whether Frank Lloyd Wright's "Broadacre City"-the inspiration for the modern suburb-was based on Communist theory is unknown. But suburbanism was proposed as the answer to the lure of Communism by none other than William Levitt, who created the first real suburb. Levitt's idea was that if every man was made into a property owner, and kept busy with the demands of caring for land, men would be less willing to go for Communism's total abolition of private property and land rights and forfeiture of all land to the state. 10) Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. State run, tax financed schools. Socialized/progressive education. Child Labor Act, Pennsylvania. Children now work with State approval. Abolition of private education. Accomplished: Horace Mann 1837-1848. John Dewey 1870-1910. Established 1848. Yep. The founders of public education were devoted to socialism, and to public education's equalizing qualities. Source: Turiyan Gold's article posted to alt.politics.org.cia , Sept. 6, 1996 -- "Turiyan Gold --linkwww.netcom.com Home Page |
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