Reflections

When the NAFTA and GATT agreements were under consideration years ago, I concluded the only one to profit from their passage would be my dentist over which I spent so much time gnashing my teeth  I was in danger of grinding down to the gums. 

Weeks later I was really pleased  when  United Parcel Service cancelled some of its ground services in Mexico after struggling for two years against Mexican indifference.  UPS complained the Mexican authorities made time-consuming inspections at the border—for which there was no reciprocity on their trucks heading north.

Long-time Los Angeles reporter George Putnam complained no inspection was given to Mexican sealed trucks when they came into the U.S.—trucks which could contain anything, including drugs and illegals.  This was the Clinton era, and we were all amazed when Mickey Kantor, his employee,  said Mexico was in violation of the NAFTA agreement, but even he  was unable to get the Mexicans to relent.   Their law demands the inspection of every package no matter how small.  And UPS couldn’t get permission to use their 18-wheelers inside Mexico, since it costs a bundle to drive a lot of small trucks which can’t take Mexican roads anyway.

Mexico’s rural roads are more like rock-strewn rubble tracks.  My son-in-law took these roads over many a long weary mile in his missionary chores into the back hills.  I’ve seen his pictures of the truck at the end of such journeys with the tires torn and twisted and wheels mostly riding on the rim.

During the Congressional debates I somehow connected the name of Harry Dexter White, Soviet agent, and next-in-command in the U.S. Treasury in Roosevelt’s and Morgenthau’s day, with GATT, so I went hunting thru my scrapbooks.  Found it too.  Came up with a review of GATT in a 1958 American Mercury magazine.  Mercury pointed out the GATT trade agreement “would transfer authority over American tariff policies to an international body, (original emphasis) in which we are hopelessly outnumbered.  It would give foreigners a dangerous leverage over our economic life.”  Well, it has certainly done that. And aren’t we even now knuckling under to the supposedly passe’ government of the so-called “former” Soviets only we now refer to them as Russia, as if that changes the nature of the beast!

Harold Lord Varney, then Mercury editor, pointed out Art. 1, Sec. 8, of the Constitution gave Congress, not the President, the sole authority to regulate foreign commerce.  I was interested to note the people’s interpreter of the Constitution, Rush Limbaugh, did not allow discussion of “free trade” even though he wanted a change at the ballot box.  That, too, was a lame-duck Congress, just as we have now rushing thru the START Treaty with the collusion of the “new” Senator from Massachusetts, what’isname? Scott something or other, or is it somethingorother Scott?  What a disgrace to the State that used to pride itself on being “the cradle of liberty” --or did that disappear with the Kennedy take-over?

Back to GATT and NAFTA.   In 1955, the American Bar Association opined , “Neither the President, nor Congress has the legal authority under the Constitution, to delegate the regulation of our commerce with foreign nations to a foreign-controlled group.” At the time of Varney’s writing, we had already given $60 billion in foreign aid, but now, he said, we were being asked to “turn over the American home market, at the expense of American industry and labor.” (That $60 billion was just a down payment on what we have given since! And are still giving!)

Even earlier, in 1934, Congress passed the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act which transferred the authority to negotiate tariff rates to the President.  Varney showed that same year,the U.S. exported 650 cars to England, at the same time, we imported 63,380 British cars in the first ten months! A whole study needs doing on this.

During WWII Roosevelt appointed an Executive Committee on Economic Foreign Policy which evolved eventually into the United Nations Economic and Social Council.  Participating in these post-war tariff plannings were Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, V. Frank Coe, and Victor Perlo, all of them on U.S. payrolls, but all of them secret agents of the Soviets, and none of whom had the welfare of the U.S. in mind!

This is like waving a red flag!  As Varney said, “All of these men were later named before a Congressional Committee as members of the Communist apparatus in Washington.”  The international enforcement agency, the World Trade Organization “was born in the mind of Harry Dexter White, accused Communist spy ring member.” So was the International Monetary Fund (IMF)  as well as the World Bank, which are still siphoning U.S. dollars. (Both of which have dismal records in the financial world)

One immediate result was the disappearance of American woolen and worsted mills which formerly furnished 40,000 jobs.  Most of us don’t even remember we ever had a textile industry, or American cotton, pottery, watches, shoes, American oil, American electronics, lumber, small appliances, just some of the endangered species in Varney’s time and now extinct—with less concern from the left than the endangered spotted owl gets.     

BRAINWASHING – 21st Century Style

Most Americans are totally unaware of the brainwashing which attends their every day,  not just from the slant given to the news by the writers of the news blobs handed to familiar faces to be read on screen, but by long term icons of Americanism, i.e.,  the magazines ladies bring home from the grocery store, the drug store or anywhere else popular magazines are sold.  When I was a housewife and mother, I read these icons of the American home as if they were my Bible, clipping recipes, noting new hair, dress styles, and all the “tips” on child raising. 

Then one night I had an epiphany!   I attended a meeting which I knew was Communist-sponsored and discovered a female author of child-raising techniques I had followed in my favorite women’s magazine was also a writer for known Red-sources.  That night I sat up late, mentally reviewing my philosophy on child raising, on issues to which my mother had often objected, to which I would respond, “Oh, Mother, you’re just old-fashioned!”  Well, so, okay, when did “old-fashioned” equal no good?   

I also knew how brain-washed many G.I.’s became as prisoners of the Reds during the Korean War and Viet Nam.   Those who succumbed were those young men who did not have a strong orientation toward American history and/or American family life.  As it happens, the college-bound youth of that era and especially during the Viet Nam era were equally brainwashed in their University classes by their leftwing professors, who promoted the impressionable youths’ anti-war protests from coast to coast, aimed particularly at returning vets--- victims of  the same type of vitriol and venom spewed by the so-called Rev. Wright into the minds of his congregation. 

You see, the “plan” was to oppose American participation in war, if that war was appeared aimed at Reds as were both the Asian “wars,” but it was okay in Spain when the “red” side was promoted as the correct side and Americans were urged to participate by the same people who just a few years later opposed the anti-Red wars!  

Edward Hunter who made the most comprehensive expose’ of brainwashing in a book of that title sixty years ago, said:  “The most diabolical intrigues of the past never descended to such dark, unstirred depths.  There is something repulsive and against nature in it.  This is not easy for the normal mind to grasp.”

Matt Cvetic, a counterspy in the Communist Party during the so-called “cold war” sixty years ago, was totally familiar with the slanting of Communist doctrines from many years of subjection to their literature, from an active, ongoing network of dedicated Communists, espionage agents, disinformation agents, all working to bring down the republic established in Philadelphia so long ago. 

Cvetic said they paid particular attention to educational matters:  “I learned that the Communists and their sympathizers concentrated their crafty planning, knowing that if they can inject their ideology into our schools they can go a long way to bringing to fruition their Marxist aims in America.  They know if they can destroy the children’s respect for parents, home, country, fellow-man and church, and instill in its place a shallow materialistic concept of life, their psychological battle for American minds is more than half won.”  

Bella Dodd, a former Communist Party leader as well as a practicing attorney, confirmed the role of the Communist teacher in making converts from hitherto innocent American students, confirmed Cvetic’s observations from her own inner-circle knowledge, but, she added, “not gaining under the label of Communist, but by having its operators operate under many different labels, under many different titles…It is the most terrifying thing to watch, ….I think that every American needs to understand this thing, needs to understand that it is not just communism.  It is not just the word ‘communism,’ because that has become very obnoxious.  We have made it unpopular.  But they are selling us the whole program in little bits.”

Little drops of poison over a long period of time, creating a new concept or right and wrong, as water wears away stone creating stalactites and stalagmites……Communists will use the schools and every other educational medium, whether it be comic books or the radio and television; they will use every educational medium…from the nursery school to the universities…Toynbee once said there were 19 civilizations since the dawn of history, 16 were destroyed from within.  Communist units were on the campuses of all the city colleges…”  and then Dodd specified, “Columbia, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Harvard, MIT, and a dozen or more other state universities –……..first of all there must be a mental revolution, an orientation to a wholly new conception of society…..”  a process which has continued for lo, these over sixty years!

Through these 6 decades, brainwashing of the public has moved on in high gear to create that mental revolution.  The  public, once  students in our communist infiltrated schools, are now receptive to the leftwing doctrines molding the thought patterns of Americans of every age.  This is how the so-called “social democrats” gained ascendency in the political arena, particularly in the Congress.

I wrote many pages on it in my book, “In the Presence of Our Enemies, joining a long list of authors, one of whom,  Dr. David Noebel  observed the “first  U.S.  ambassador to the Soviet Union (who) thought the greatest tragedy of the West is that its leaders—….simply are incapable of grasping or understanding the nature of the enemy bent upon their destruction.”  Noebel then added  the plans…designed to destroy our nation, are precise and exact…..the Kremlin maintains it will not raise the Red flag over America—the Americans will raise it themselves! “ (The Marxists Minstrels, A Handbook on Communist Subversion of Music, 1974)

Edward Hunter, previously mentioned, stumbled onto brainwashing  during his years in China as a foreign correspondent,  “I found it was a strategy for the conquest of the world…that it was not merely another tactic, but was the framework for the entire activity of the Communist hierarchy….A more exact term ..would be mind attack…They have based their technique primarily on the complete abandonment of morality.  That is their contribution to world thought…..”

Nevertheless Communists  now operate from the underground so many Americans are now convinced Communism died with the so-called passing of the Soviet Union,  overlooking the fact communism is a philosophy which permeates all aspects of American life and is totally in opposition to the philosophy which created this country. 

All this reminiscing  brought on because this week I  received two  issues containing the same ad in two different women’s magazines.  Years of abstinence from such mental dope had caused me to forget all I learned about mind bending and  I fell for a Madison-Ave hype and subscribed to these two old favorites.  So what happened?  Both magazines contained  the opening guns of a campaign  by the nation’s enemies which will continue for however long it takes them to win— it is pretty well along already!  I had to do a double-take on this particular ad, however, as  pretty  subtle.

Bible students will not easily be  persuaded to accept the campaign now being waged to  tolerate same sex marriage as containing equal rights as male-female marriage.  That marriage originated in the book of Genesis.  Subtlty the snake is still offering his poisoned fruit1

The December issue of two of the surviving popular women’s home-style magazines replete with recipes, home and table decorations, opened their magazines with identical very subtle ad, promoting the homosexual lifestyle as “family.”  Both had  exactly the same expensive two-page display, beginning with the inside of the cover itself, on the left, featuring the very dolled-up photo of a well-known lesbian under a banner,  “What do you do when you’re the #1 anti-aging foundation? Start a family”  The right hand page features a display for Cover Girl and Olay:  “Simply ageless family------- “ 

The ad is subtle.  Deviants of either sex do not bear children, but they do adopt, as judges  abet the fall of the American family by permitting it –   Some Catholic adoption agencies shut down, feeling they have no other recourse. State agencies are still functioning.  The Trojan horse is inside the gates. 

International Debt Crises

The news that England is in bad shape financially added to the list of the PIIGs is  a bad omen.  For one like myself who has no real knowledge of international finances, what can you do but speculate?  How is it possible that so many governments are in deep, deep do?  Not only that, but the timing of it is so strange.  All of them, all at once?  Or apparently so.

The little town in which I live just recently announced it was in a deep deficit, which  did not, however, stop them from continuing the building of a very elaborate and massive recreation center which was practically on the verge of default.  So what did they do?  They raised a local tax to 3% which means when you buy groceries you pay that much to them, and this is the principal shopping center for a number of nearby small towns.  We sport a super WalMart, of course, plus a Home Depot and three grocery centers. 

Add to the mess the state of Arizona is in, Phoenix is in, along with a number of Phoenix subdivisions, and all of them have just one thought:  taxpayers!

A few years ago I went to Phoenix to enter Arizona Heart Hospital which meant my companion and I checked into a nearby hotel.  I only mention this because Jane, the friend that drove me down, stayed there a couple days to keep me company, and we were both shocked.  It wasn’t the price of the hotel room but there was a tax on it besides all the other taxes designated  especially for the Diamondbacks, the baseball team!  A few months later there was a tv discussion about the wages paid to the athletes for playing a game, which are not just astronomical, but downright shocking! Yet if you look at the number of empty seats in the arena, that is also shocking!

That isn’t what I wanted to say, just wanted to put that on the record.  What was on my mind, however, was the IMF  which seems to have all kinds of clout despite its shabby origins – which no one ever seems to mention.  Did you know it was an outgrowth of the plotting done at Bretton Woods,  Dumbarton Oaks, and eventually San Francisco at which the notorious traitor Alger Hiss presided—only it is amazing how few people remember that name or why it is infamous!  If you do know what went on then, you can only shake your head in wonderment that agencies created by people who were on the payroll of the United States’ State Department yet were agents of the Soviet Union could continue administering untold sums of money even to this day!  The  two who put their heads together and came up with the International Monetary Fund were John Maynard Keynes, a Fabian Socialist Brit, and Harry Dexter White, a Soviet agent to whom the then Treasurer of the U.S. Morgenthau, had given all authority to deal with the economies of other countries on behalf of the U.S.!  When White was eventually unmasked, his counterpart, Frank Coe, succeeded him as head of the IMF for six years!  The record according to former employees is 70% failure of all the projects sponsored by IMF! 

I wrote quite a bit about it in my epic, In the Presence of Our Enemies,  which is still available in re Amazon, for those who have any interest in who drives the world’s economies.  And if you, like me, are wondering why all these countries are in dire financial straits even as we are – and asking, how do we get out of this mess?