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      <title>Hidden gems: 5 killer sleeper cars</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:32:51 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>By Craig Fitzgerald 
 Boldride - Tue, Jun 11, 2013 3:00 PM EDT


Anybody can run right down to the  Chevrolet  store, order up a  Corvette  and have a fast car. Considering a  Honda Accord  can run well into the low $30,000 range, Corvettes aren't even expensive anymore. But a true car guy will shop for cars that look commonplace, dowdy, decontented or even downright ugly just to see the look on the face of a flashier car's driver when they get dusted at a stop light.  BoldRide  presents five of the sleepiest sleeper cars in history:


 
1968 Buick GS400

All of GM's 1968 to 1972 A-body intermediates - the Chevelle, the Cutlass, the LeMans and the Skylark - turned out high-performance variants that are some of the most expensive, desirable muscle cars ever produced, with one exception. The 1968 GS400 - despite having a 340 hp, 400-cu.in. V-8 to start and the availability of vastly under-rated Stage 1 components - looked like an old man's car with its sad face and its formal styling. The sleepiest GS400s were ordered with bench seats and poverty caps.




1991 to 1994 Nissan Sentra SE-R

 

The B13  Sentra  introduced the world to the SR20DE engine in the sporty two-door SE-R. For a subcompact economy car, it was a lightning bolt, offering 140 hp at 6400 rpm, and accelerating to 60 mph in 7.6 seconds. Four-wheel disc brakes were part of the package. It was on Car and Driver's 10Best list every year it was produced, and still, nobody bought it. It seems like about 93 percent of Sentra SE-Rs in those years were sprayed white, adding to their appliance-like appeal.

2004 Subaru Legacy 2.5 GT

 


What the Legacy always needed was a little spring in its step, and the 2.5 GT offered in 2004 finally delivered. With a  WRX -derived 2.5-liter, turbocharged four pumping out 250 hp, the Legacy managed to perform as well as it looked. In darker colors, it was essentially invisible on the highway, yet provided a whole lot of fun and all-wheel drive for less than you'd spend on a similar-sized Audi. See also: the Subaru Forester XT 2.5, the only Forester anyone ever truly enjoyed driving.

1989-1990 Dodge Caravan Turbo
 

For two years,  Dodge  offered the  Caravan  with a turbocharged 2.5-liter Turbo II four and a five-speed stick. Cranked to a moderate boost of 12 psi, a largely stock Caravan turbo can hit the quarter mile deep into the 12s. Imagine the depression you'd kick off handing somebody's ass to them in a wood-paneled, seven passenger loser cruiser.

 1984 Ford LTD LX 

 

This one requires a little work, but the initial investment is so low it makes it worth it. Fox-bodied LTDs were almost universally loathed when they arrived in 1983. The engine was the same high-output 5.0-liter V8 so prized in the  Mustang  from that year. The LX got a four-speed automatic, bigger sway bars, bigger coil springs and bigger brakes, along with a 3.27 rear axle and a Traction-Lok diff.  The automatic was shifted via a floor selector with a console, and it was the only LTD ever to have a tach in the instrument cluster. It was the predecessor to cars like the Crown Victoria LX Sport and the Mercury Marauder, and was a high note in an otherwise depressing string of Fox-platform sedans.

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      <title>Top 10 Ancient Inventions</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:02:41 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Jamie Frater October 7, 2007
 http://listverse.com/2007/10/07/top-10-ancient-inventions/ 



I wanted to make a list that tells us about the history
of some of the things in life that we take for granted. We all know
who invented things like the telephone and the television, but we
don't know when or how the staples of life were invented or
discovered. So, here is a list of 10 things we take for granted and
the history of their use. With the exception of one item (the wheel)
the rest come to us from the Paleolithic era. This list is ordered
from most recent to oldest.

 
10. The Wheel 5,000 BC
 
The Sumerian &quot;Battle Standard of Ur&quot; - Ca. 2600 BC

The wheel probably originated in ancient Sumer (modern
Iraq) in the 5th millennium BC, originally in the function of
potter's wheels. The wheel reached India and Pakistan with the
Indus Valley Civilization in the 3rd millennium BCE. Near the
northern side of the Caucasus several graves were found, in which
since 3700 BC people had been buried on wagons or carts (both types).
The earliest depiction of what may be a wheeled vehicle (here a
wagon-four wheels, two axles), is on the Bronocice pot, a circa
3500 BC clay pot excavated in southern Poland. What is particularly
interesting about the wheel, is that wheels only occur in nature in
the microscopic form, so man's use of the wheel could not have been
in mimicry of nature. It is worth noting, however, that the rolling
motion of the wheel is seen in certain animals that manipulate their
bodies into the shape of a ball and roll. The wheel reached Europe
and India (the Indus Valley civilization) in the 4th millennium BC.
In China, the wheel is certainly present with the adoption of the
chariot in ca. 1200 BC.


9. Twisted Rope 17,000 BC
 
Ancient Egyptian's Making Rope


The use of ropes for hunting, pulling, fastening,
attaching, carrying, lifting, and climbing dates back to prehistoric
times and has always been essential to mankind's technological
progress. It is likely that the earliest &quot;ropes&quot; were naturally
occurring lengths of plant fiber, such as vines, followed soon by the
first attempts at twisting and braiding these strands together to
form the first proper ropes in the modern sense of the word.
Fossilised fragments of &quot;probably two-ply laid rope of about 7 mm
diameter&quot; were found in Lascaux cave, dating to approximately
15,000 BC. The ancient Egyptians were probably the first civilization
to develop special tools to make rope. Egyptian rope dates back to
4000 to 3500 B.C. and was generally made of water reed fibers. Other
rope in antiquity was made from the fibers of date palms, flax,
grass, papyrus, leather, or animal hair.


8. Musical Instruments 50,000 BC
 
Prehistoric Bone Flute

The first known music instruments were flutes. The
flute appeared in different forms and locations around the world. A
three-hole flute made from a mammoth tusk, (from the Geissenkl&quot;osterle
cave in the German Swabian Alb and dated to 30,000 to 37,000 years
ago), and two flutes made from swans' bones excavated a decade
earlier (from the same cave in Germany, dated to circa 36,000 years
ago) are among the oldest known musical instruments. The flute has
been dated to prehistoric times. A fragment of the femur of a
juvenile cave bear, with two to four holes, found at Divje Babe in
Slovenia and dated to about 43,100 years ago, may also be an early
flute. Some early flutes were made out of tibias (shin bones).
Playable 9000-year-old Gudi (literally, &quot;bone flute&quot;), made from
the wing bones of red-crowned cranes, with five to eight holes each,
were excavated from a tomb in Jiahu in the Central Chinese province
of Henan.


7. The Boat 60,000 BC
 
Fragments of a Log Boat

Archaeological evidence indicates that humans arrived
on New Guinea at least 60,000 years ago, probably by sea from
Southeast Asia during an ice age period when the sea was lower and
distances between islands shorter. The ancestors of Australian
Aborigines and New Guineans went across the Lombok Strait to Sahul by
boat over 50,000 years ago. Evidence from ancient Egypt shows that
the early Egyptians already knew how to assemble planks of wood into
a watertight hull, using treenails to fasten them together, and pitch
for caulking the seams. The &quot;Khufu ship&quot;, a 43.6 m long vessel
sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the
Great Pyramid of Giza in the Fourth Dynasty around 2,500 BC, is a
full-size surviving example which may have fulfilled the symbolic
function of a solar barque.


6. Pigments 400,000 BC
 
Cave Paintings in Zimbabwe


Naturally occurring pigments such as ochres and iron
oxides have been used as colorants since prehistoric times.
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that early humans used paint
for aesthetic purposes such as body decoration. Pigments and paint
grinding equipment believed to be between 350,000 and 400,000 years
old have been reported in a cave at Twin Rivers, near Lusaka, Zambia.
Before the Industrial Revolution, the range of color available for
art and decorative uses was technically limited. Most of the pigments
in use were earth and mineral pigments, or pigments of biological
origin. Pigments from unusual sources such as botanical materials,
animal waste, insects, and mollusks were harvested and traded over
long distances. Some colors were costly or impossible to mix with the
range of pigments that were available. Blue and purple came to be
associated with royalty because of their expense.


5. Spears 400,000 BC
 
Hunting Spear and Knife


Spear manufacture and use is also practiced by the Pan
troglodytes verus subspecies of the Common Chimpanzee. This is the
only known example of animals besides humans crafting and using
deadly weapons. Chimpanzees near K'edougou, Senegal were observed to
create spears by breaking straight limbs off of trees, stripping them
of their bark and side branches, and sharpening one end with their
teeth. They then used the weapons to hunt galagos sleeping in
hollows. Archeological evidence documents that wooden spears were
used for hunting 400,000 years ago. However, wood does not preserve
well. Craig Stanford, a primatologist and professor of anthropology
at the University of Southern California, has suggested that the
discovery of spear use by chimpanzees probably means that early
humans used wooden spears as well, perhaps five million years ago. By
250,000 years ago wooden spears were made with fire-hardened points.
From 280,000 years ago humans began to make complex stone blades,
which were used as spear points. By 50,000 years ago there was a
revolution in human culture, leading to more complex hunting
techniques.


4. Clothing 500,000 - 100,000 BC
 
Prehistoric Clothing

According to archaeologists and anthropologists, the
earliest clothing probably consisted of fur, leather, leaves or
grass, draped, wrapped or tied about the body for protection from the
elements. Knowledge of such clothing remains inferential, since
clothing materials deteriorate quickly compared to stone, bone, shell
and metal artifacts. Archeologists have identified very early sewing
needles of bone and ivory from about 30,000 BC, found near Kostenki,
Russia, in 1988. Ralf Kittler, Manfred Kayser and Mark Stoneking,
anthropologists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, have conducted a genetic analysis of human body lice
that indicates that they originated about 107,000 years ago. Since
most humans have very sparse body hair, body lice require clothing to
survive, so this suggests a surprisingly recent date for the
invention of clothing. However, a second group of researchers used
similar genetic methods to estimate that body lice originated about
540,000 years ago. Most information in this area has come from
Neanderthal remains.


3. Housing 500,000 BC
 
Mockup of a Prehistoric Dwelling


Throughout history, primitive peoples have made use of
caves for shelter, burial, or as religious sites. However, a recent
find by archaeologists in Japan gives evidence of the building of
huts dating back as far as 500,000 BC. The site (on a hillside at
Chichibu, north of Tokyo,) has been dated to a time when Homo erectus
lived in the region. It consists of what seem to be 10 post holes,
which form two irregular pentagons thought to be the remains of two
huts. Thirty stone tools were found scattered around the site.


2. Fire 1,000,000 BC
 

The ability to control fire is one of humankind's
great achievements. Fire making to generate heat and light made it
possible for people to migrate to colder climates and enabled people
to cook food - a key step in the fight against disease. Archaeology
indicates that ancestors or relatives of modern humans might have
controlled fire as early as 790,000 years ago. Some recent evidence
may exist to demonstrate that man controlled fire from 1 to 1.8
million years ago (which would make it older than the knife below).
By the Neolithic Revolution, during the introduction of grain based
agriculture, people all over the world used fire as a tool in
landscape management. These fires were typically controlled burns or
&quot;cool fires&quot;, as opposed to uncontrolled &quot;hot fires&quot; that
damage the soil.


 1. Knife 2,500,000 - 1,400,000
 
Olduwan Tool


The earliest knives were shaped by percussion flaking
from rock, particularly water-worn creek cobbles made out of volcanic
rock. During the Paleolithic era Homo habilis likely made similar
tools out of wood, bone, and similar highly perishable material that
has not survived. As recent as five thousand years ago, as advances
in metallurgy progressed, stone, wood, and bone blades were gradually
succeeded by copper, bronze, iron, and eventually steel. The very
first stone tool assemblage in prehistory is called the Olduwan by
anthropologists. Olduwan tool use is estimated to have begun about
2.5 million years ago, lasting to as late as 1.5 million years ago.
It is suggested that its users comprised a number of species of
hominina ranging from Australopithecus to early Homo, and passing its
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      <title>New Seating Gives Russian Airline Passengers The Chance To Fly By The Seat Of Thier Pants</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:33:04 -0400</pubDate>
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From:  The Aviation Herald &amp;amp; NBC News
June 13, 2013

Russian airlines have discovered the availiblity of still another passenger class even lower than coach. And like the discovery of Penicillin, this discovery was also accidental.

The event which will now have Russians clamoring for these cheap seats began when a &quot;passenger&quot; was discovered in one of the landing gear wheel wells. 
The incident unfolded on June 6, after the i-Fly flight landed at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport and maintenance workers discovered blood stains on one of the main landing gear struts.

Upon further inspection, they found the body of a young male carrying a Georgian passport. 

Now in Thicks opinion this does not bode well for the routine maintenance and pre-flight inspections of Mama Russias airliners. I mean blood isn't normally found on landing gear struts but then again for some reason all the Vodka I purchase in the U.S. (and me luvs me Vodka) all say made in Russia from grain. I thought Vodka was made from fermented potatoes. So I guess it goes I wouldn't know much about blood on landing sluts.

Anyway, an autopsy revealed that he had frozen to death four days previously, meaning his body had been transported on at least seven flights.

 It's unknown where he initially boarded the flight(but remember at least he had his passport). According to FAA, the temperature at 30,000 feet is typically around -48</description>
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      <title>All New Chevrolet Impala 2014 Overview Footage HD</title>
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The Impala is a full-size front-wheel drive sedan with seating for five people. Available in LS, LT, and LTZ trims and with a choice of three engines the Impala is equipped with a six-speed automatic transmission. The base engine is a 195-hp, direct-injected 2.5-liter inline-4 engine. Available engines include a 182-hp 2.4-liter inline-4 with e-Assist and a 303-hp 3.6-liter V6 engine. Standard equipment includes front bucket seats, StabiliTrak, projector headlamps,18-inch wheels, new multi-link rear suspension and Bluetooth. The Impala now has 10 airbags, including front, side, side curtains, driver and passenger, and rear side airbags. Available features include MyLink with audio streaming, a sunroof with an additional skylight, 19-inch wheels, upgraded stereo with concealed storage behind the screen, push-button start, and navigation. The Impala is also available with an extensive list of safety features including Forward Collision Alert, Lane Departure Warning, Side Blind Zone Alert, and Collision Mitigation Braking.

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      <description>A car scrapes along a tramline after getting stuck when the flustered gran at the wheel took a wrong turn. Marie Smith, 64, paralysed the transport system and had to be rescued after driving 200 yards in her Nissan Qashqai on Manchester's Metrolink.

Marie, from Levenshulme, blamed poor road signs. She said: &quot;I just took the right turn and before I knew it I was on the track.&quot;

But Metrolink director Peter Cushing insisted that &quot;clear signage&quot; is in place.

He said: &quot;The clear signage we've put in place near tram tracks to advise motorists is based on sound, industry-standard principles and best practice -- and has been agreed with Manchester council.

&quot;We understand that changes to the road layout can be confusing and appreciate that the changes will involve a period of adjustment and familiarisation for drivers.&quot;</description>
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      <title>Summary of events in Syria for 14 -15 June</title>
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In Damascus, the army closed all entrances to the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk from operating in its territory a few snipers.
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      <title>Our Enemy Inside the Gates</title>
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  Posted by Edward Cline at 8:22 PM 


Review:  American Betrayal :  The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character , by Diana West

Where to begin?

In  American Betrayal  *, Diana West begins in 1933.

In the name of establishing historical causo-connections, I would have begun in 1781, when Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant published his  Critique of Pure Reason , a brain-cracking treatise which relied on reality to prove that reality was unknowable. That is, by reading his book, a real thing in your real hands, you were expected to agree with Kant that real things were only rough reflections of things whose &quot;essences&quot; existed beyond the evidence of our benighted, warping senses, in some other realm. Kant counted on everyone not noticing the contradiction and not seeing the ease with which his elaborately constructed mare's nest could be exploded.

No contemporary, I gather, ever confronted Kant and said, &quot;Herr Professor! If what you say is true, then this book is just a shadow, and the print in it, and all your words, too! What could they mean? How could they be true? Are your words  noumena , or mere phenomena ?&quot;

But no one ever did confront Kant with his contradictions, fallacies, and cerebral legerdemain, except some Hegelian hair-splitters, and the Western world has been the worse for it.

 1781 . Just as the American Revolution, a product of the Enlightenment, was winding to a close with the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, with reality-loyal Americans winning their freedom from the British monarchy, Kant published his  Critique , whose ideas, if not opposed and refuted, were guaranteed to destroy the freedom of their heirs. The Founders, as they later debated in Philadelphia the means and ends of a true republican government that would guarantee men's freedom from each other, were not aware of the incubus that was birthing across the Atlantic and which would eventually infect American political philosophy with the syphilis of collectivism, moral relativism, and statism in the 19thcentury.  

Kant was an enemy of the Enlightenment. Diana West, among her other arguments, contends that the political and intellectual leaders of the West by 1933 had abandoned reason and all Enlightenment ideas. Nay, with very few exceptions, they became as hostile to them as Kant ever was.

West begins in 1933. Of what significance is that year?

Adolph Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and Reichsstatthalter of Prussia on January 30th, 1933. From August 1934, he would be F&quot;uhrer of Germany until his suicide in April 1945.

Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt became the 32nd president of the United States on March 4th, 1933. He would remain in that office until his death in April 1945.

On November 20, 1933, at Roosevelt's urging, the U.S. recognized the Soviet Union. West writes:

The West's decision to recognize the USSR - and its determination to keep recognizing it, no matter how much lying and acquiescence to betrayal that entailed - did more to transform us than any single act before or since. The profound diplomatic shift - part Faustian bargain, part moral lobotomy - didn't just invite the Soviet Union into the community of nations. To make room for the monster-r'egime, the United States had to surrender the terra firma of objective morality and reality-based judgment. No wonder, then, that tens of thousands of Dreyfus cases in Russia meant nothing to the &quot;conscience of the civilized world....

Because the Communist r'egime was so openly and ideologically dedicated to our destruction, the act of recognition defied reason and the demands of self-preservation. Recognition and all that came with it, including alliance, would soon become  the enemy  of reason and self-preservation....

...It was here that we abandoned the lodestars of good and evil, the clarity of black and white. Closing our eyes, we dove head first into a weltering morass of exquisitely enervating and agonizing grays. (pp. 195-196)

In short, the U.S. government had by 1933 lost the capacity for making moral judgments. It cringed like a coward when asked to make one, and hissed and spat like a rabid animal at the mere suggestion of it. It still does when the subject of Islam comes up.

Recognition of the Soviet Union not only granted the murderous Communist dictatorship a moral sanction, it also opened the gates to the wholesale Soviet infiltration and subversive activities of its agents, American sympathizers or &quot;fellow travelers,&quot; and members of the Communist Party USA. The Soviets never honored any of the terms of that recognition.

The precedent had been set. We can see the insidious parallels today in our government's refusal to withdraw moral sanctions from Islamic r'egimes and its tolerance of terrorist-founded and terrorist state-funded organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim American Society (MAS) within our own borders.

In March 1933, Harry Hopkins, a veteran of former New York Governor Roosevelt's welfare programs, on Roosevelt's invitation joins the new administration, at first running the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Civil Works Administration (CWA) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In this pre-war period he also established the National Youth Administration (NYA) and the Federal One Programs for artists and writers. 

In May 1940, Roosevelt makes Hopkins his first counsel in all matters pertaining to Europe and the new war. Hopkins moves into the Lincoln Bedroom at the White House, his office and residence for the next three and a half years. Hopkins not only advises Roosevelt on foreign policy and war issues, but directs Lend-Lease, a program conceived by Armand Hammer, a notorious Sovietaphile, ostensibly created to aid the British in their fight against the Nazis, but actually intended to aid Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union.

Between 1932 and 1933, millions of Russians starved to death as Stalin's government confiscated harvests in the brutal forced collectivization of Russian agriculture. Millions more would perish over the decade from starvation, from being sent as slaves in the Gulag, in mass executions, and in political purges.

But 1933, writes West, was a crucial year in American history. In reprising the statements of historians and commentators about the wrongness of recognizing the Soviet r'egime as a legitimate government, given the  known  horrific consequences of forced collectivization, she states:

Dennis J. Dunn agrees with historian David Mayers, who has argued that the failure of the U.S. government under Roosevelt to reckon with the profound crime of the Terror Famine in negotiations over recognition made it - us - &quot;a passive accomplice to Stalin in the Ukraine.&quot;

I agree. Which makes 1933 the year of America's Fall (p. 243)

Diana West steps up to lectern and confronts Professor Kant with some very incisive and inconvenient questions of her own. Who really won World War II? Was it really America's &quot;Good War&quot;? Did the &quot;greatest generation&quot; fight to rid the world of one toxic dictatorship only to enable another to take its place? How is it that the only beneficiary of that war was the Soviet Union, which acquired an Eastern European empire? Were Americans conned, scammed, and robbed throughout the government-perpetuated Depression and then during the war? Who was really establishing American foreign policy in the 1930's and 1940's: Roosevelt, or Stalin through Harry Hopkins, who had Roosevelt's ear 24/7, and countless Soviet agents and traitors embedded in our government dedicated to selling secrets, altruism, self-sacrifice and welfare statism?

Hopkins, West suggests, was the Soviets' most important agent in the U.S. government. Whether or not he was &quot;recruited&quot; or &quot;co-opted&quot; by the Soviets, or was a volunteer agent, West was not able to determine with certainty. He is referred to in Soviet cables as &quot;Agent 19.&quot; The KGB boasted that he was the Soviet Union's &quot;most important agent.&quot;

West performs a yeoman's task and gets to the &quot;essence&quot; of that whole sorry and tragic period, proving in her narrative that the reality of our relationship with the Soviets  is knowable, and moreover, that its &quot;essence&quot; was ugly, scary, and shameful.  I would add, pertaining to  all  the actors in that period responsible for what West calls the &quot;Big Lie,&quot; criminal and treasonous.

What precedes and follows West's statement is not for the weak of stomach or faint of heart. With a meticulous and excruciating fealty to the truth, and after exhaustive and often frustrating research (because many documents that once existed and that were evidence of the government's complicity were destroyed or had simply vanished from government archives), West paints a picture of not only FDR's complacency towards Soviet totalitarianism, but Harry Hopkins's contribution to the fall, as well, in addition to that of a legion of liars, fabricators, Communist moles, agents, and spies who populated government positions.

If you think the Benghazi cover-up is a classic case of desperate political back-pedaling, official lies and semi-lies, face-saving, and walking away from reality, that episode is merely a miniature of the colossal con pulled on the whole country by Roosevelt and his minions from 1933 onward.

West covers several main subjects, among them the extent of Soviet espionage against the U.S. and the extent of Soviet infiltration in our government, an infiltration so common and ubiquitous in numerous Depression Era and wartime agencies that the government was literally top-heavy enough to cause the ship-of-state to list ever Leftward. The government was so saturated with lefties and Communists that they became the de facto architects of domestic and foreign policies.

West dates the beginning of the end of a fairly solid and reclaimable constitutional republic - reclaimable from Wilson's Progressive precedents of a central bank, the income tax, and becoming the world's moral policeman, moves which put the country on the road to incremental serfdom - from 1933, when the U.S. recognized the U.S.S.R. as &quot;just another system of government,&quot; not much different from our own.

Roosevelt, West explains, believed in the &quot;convergence&quot; of our system of government and that of the Soviets. Aside from buttressing his collectivist programs of the New Deal welfare state, the &quot;convergence theory&quot; enabled Roosevelt to be essentially an  apolitical pragmatist .

There was...one point of ideology that Roosevelt does seem to have fervently embraced, which historian Dennis J. Dunn believes made him an ideologue after all. FDR, Dunn writes, seized on the theory of &quot;convergence&quot; as it applied to the United States and the USSR, the idea being that capitalism and Communism would take on enough characteristics of the other to &quot;converge.&quot;

...As Dunn explains it, the convergence theory &quot;held that Soviet Russia and the United States were on convergent paths, where the United States was moving from laissez-faire capitalism to welfare state socialism and the Soviet Union was evolving from totalitarianism to social democracy.&quot; (p. 192)

There's that Hegelian/Marxist &quot;dialectical&quot; evolutionary force that was  somehow  ineluctably moving both sides toward &quot;convergence&quot; so that, to the casual observer, when the melding occurred, there wouldn't be a dime's or kopek's worth of difference between the two countries. Human volition and action would have nothing to do with it, neither in acts of Congress nor in executive branch decrees nor in Supreme Court decisions. &quot;Convergence theory&quot; assumed the cognitive powers of a somnambulist. It would &quot;just happen.&quot; Don't blame us, counter the advocates of that theory and others. We have nothing to do with it. It's just &quot;history.&quot;

It would be unfair to both West and her book to attempt anything here other than highlighting some of the revelations she discusses at length throughout  American Betrayal . Here are some of them:

 Lend-Lease 

Much of West's story focuses on the organized massive theft and redirection of American war productivity to the Soviets that occurred under Lend-Lease. But how did it really begin? As noted above, it was the idea of politically ambidextrous businessman  Armand Hammer whose financial and commercial relationship with the Soviets dated back to 1921. (His father, Dr. Julius Hammer, a socialist and later a Communist, named him after the Socialist Labor Party of America's symbol of an arm and hammer.)

Worried that a Nazi attack on the Soviet Union would jeopardize his interests in the Soviet Union (and no one in Washington believed the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, signed on August 23rd, 1939, would last), he met with Roosevelt in the White House on November 28th, 1940 and sold the president and Hopkins on the idea of establishing a government entity that would be responsible for aiding the British in their war with Germany (Hopkins later claimed the idea came to  him  out of the blue), but would actually help Stalin prepare for the expected abrogation of the &quot;non-aggression&quot; pact and enable him to withstand the invasion with American help.

It should be noted that this &quot;pact&quot; prepared the way for the co-invasion of Poland by both the Nazis and the Soviets on September 1st, 1939, the spark that began World War II. Both regarded the pact as a temporary truce (in Islam, a  hudna  contrived to buy time); Stalin wanted to eventually conquer Europe; the Nazis drooled over the oil fields of Baku and the prospect of endless  lebensraum .  Armand Hammer, who died in 1989, was a walking exemplar of the political &quot;convergence&quot; subscribed to by Roosevelt, a Republican who contributed to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign, and was a frequent visitor to the White Houses of Presidents Reagan, Carter, and George H.W. Bush. He had met and was on friendly terms with every Soviet dictator but Stalin.

Hitler signed the first operational directive to invade the Soviet Union on December 18th, 1940.

On March 11, 1941, Congress passed the Lend-Lease bill, and on June 22nd, Hitler invaded Russia. Roosevelt appointed Hopkins as head of Lend-Lease.

West details just how much Lend-Lease aided the Soviets. When the U.S. finally entered the war on December 7th, 1941, Hopkins and Lend-Lease gave aiding the Soviets the first priority in planes, tanks, small arms, munitions, Liberty ships, military machine parts, and other materiel, including food, clothing, medical supplies, etc. -  over the U.S.'s own warfighting needs . While Americans had to make do with rationed sugar, butter, meat, tires and gasoline, the Soviet government received these things free, without condition, and without interest (on a &quot;loan&quot; which was not expected to ever be paid back by the Soviets, and never was). The Navy and Army had to wait until Soviet quotas were filled before being able to take delivery on their own weaponry and supplies.

 Harry Hopkins  said so, and Roosevelt agreed. West also investigates the likelihood that Hopkins aided the Soviets in acquiring not only information regarding the Manhattan Project to produce the first atomic bomb, but facilitated, through Lend-Lease, the Soviets receiving the actual physical components, such as cadmium rods and uranium, allowing Soviet scientists to fashion their own bomb, first tested in 1949. (pp. 122-123)

West writes about the political power Lend-Lease gave Roosevelt and his &quot;co-president,&quot; Hopkins. Lend-Lease was

...sold to the American public as a means to keep the United States out of war in Europe - as a  substitute  for U.S. military involvement, not a means by which to enter the war...The legislation endowed the president with unprecedented powers to bypass the Senate and other checks and balances. For example, Lend-Lease allowed FDR to set the terms of the most massive U.S. expenditures in foreign aid history and their repayment, or nonrepayment. Who, then, needed a Senate to advise and consent on related treaties? The State Department, too, took on attributes of a governmental fifth wheel as Hopkins helmed Lend-Lease  and  U.S. foreign policy from the White House.  (p. 134)

Among other things, Singapore, the Philippines and Corregidor fell to the Japanese because all the war materiel that could've saved Americans and the British was instead sent to Russia under Lend-Lease, and FDR and his advisers knew it. Douglas MacArthur had to beg Washington for planes and naval support and relief, but the Soviets came first. Roosevelt said, &quot;I would rather lose New Zealand, Australia or anything else rather than have the Russian front collapse.&quot; (pp. 46-47)

 The Office of War Information (OWI) 

West devotes many pages to how the Office of War Information, staffed and controlled largely by Communist Party members, contributed to the white-washing of Soviet Russia, to make &quot;Papa Joe&quot; Stalin and his dictatorship palatable to the American public. Aiding them in this propaganda and agitprop were the press and broadcast luminaries. The overall mantra was: Stalin and Russia were the &quot;good guys,&quot; put upon by the &quot;bad guys,&quot; the Nazis. Stalin and his r'egime never did a bad thing, they just had a &quot;different&quot; political system, which shouldn't be judged because of the millions it wiped out of existence (those millions never mentioned). This effort ranged from standard pep-talky government propaganda to wartime newsreels to Hollywood movies. The standing orders from the OWI especially were that in no instance was the totalitarian nature of Soviet Russia ever to be revealed, discussed, or even insinuated.

A book about novelist Ayn Rand's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 concerning the propaganda film   Song of Russia   (1944) is revealing in and of itself. Rand's testimony was solicited because she had escaped Soviet Russia in 1926 and had first-hand knowledge of conditions there. Concerning the lies propagated by the government, one committee member asked her why she objected to the U.S. allying itself with the Soviets to defeat Hitler. Rand answered:

That is not what I said. I was not in a position to make that decision. If I were, I would tell you what I would do. That is not what we are discussing. We are discussing the fact that our country was an ally of Russia, and the question is: what should we tell the American people about it - the truth or a lie? If we had good reason, if that is what you believe, all right, then why not tell the truth? Say it is a dictatorship, but we want to be associated with it. Say it is worthwhile being associated with the devil, as Churchill said, in order to defeat another evil which is Hitler. There might be some good argument made for that. But why pretend that Russia was not what it was?**

Why pretend, indeed? Because the government didn't want to risk alienating Americans from the war effort. It wouldn't be good for &quot;morale.&quot; They might stop buying War Bonds, and demand an end to rationing. They might object to being in league with a devil that wanted to collectivize them, too.

 Katyn Forest Massacre 
                                                        
After Hitler and Stalin had devoured Poland in 1939, both went about &quot;cleansing&quot; Poland of its government and military elements, with the Nazis targeting Polish Jews. We are accustomed to watching videos of the Polish cavalry facing German tanks, but we are rarely informed that in the spring of 1940 the Soviets murdered between 15,000 and 22,000 Polish officers and policemen in Katyn Forest to remove any chance of the Poles resisting the Soviet occupation.

Initial blame was put on the equally blood-thirsty Nazis, but it was the  Nazis who discovered the mass graves after capturing that region from the Soviets, and who brought in several American and British POWs to see for themselves (hoping to put a chink in the American-Soviet alliance), among them Americans Capt. Donald B. Stewart and Lt. Col. John H. Van Vliet Jr. Stewart later testified before a Congressional committee about what he saw, and Van Vliet wrote two memos, one of which was put into an Orwellian memory hole - by Alger Hiss in the State Department.

This information was relayed to Roosevelt, so he and Hopkins knew about the massacre. They suppressed the information. The country would not learn about it until 1950, when Stewart delivered his testimony. Russia would not confess to the massacre until 1990.

Diana West discusses this whole shameful episode in her ground-breaking book. (pp. 202-218)

 The Nuremberg Trials 

Another issue that sent Diana West off on a wholly justified tear was the hypocrisy of the Nuremberg Trials , two sets of them between November 1945 and October 1946, with the U.S. conducting separate trials in its occupied zone in Germany. Two Soviet judges sat in judgment of their fellow killers, the Germans, alongside their American, British and French colleagues, and one Soviet chief prosecutor argued that justice be meted out to the Germans in the dock. The presiding Soviet judge, Major General Iona Nikitchenko, had previously presided over some of the notorious show trials in the1930's during the Great Purge.

But all the judges at Nuremberg took part in a conspiracy of silence about the enormity of guilt shared by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the way of massacres, purges, beginning WWII by invading Poland with Germany, and policies of extermination. West noted:

The fact is, not a jot about the Soviet criminal case came to judgment at Nuremberg - not the NKVD massacre of some twenty thousand Polish officers known as the Katyn Forest Massacre (charged to the Germans), not the forced &quot;repatriation&quot; of some two million Soviet-claimed refugees, which occurred thanks to essential assistance from British and U.S. troops - our very own war crime - which was still underway in Germany and elsewhere even as Nuremberg unfolded. (p. 55)

No one was supposed to raise so much as an eyebrow, if the ghastly details of Nazi depredations described during the trials seemed to resemble the ghastly details of Soviet depredations. The Soviets commit such crimes? Perish the thought. And thought did indeed perish.

 Stalin's insistence on a &quot;second front&quot; 

The conduct of the war was more or less dictated by Stalin and adapted as necessary by Roosevelt and his Hopkins-picked general military staff, which included Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George C. Marshall. Stalin's idea was, first, to prolong the war as long as necessary, in order for the Soviets to better defend itself against the Nazis; and second, that the British and Americans should open up a &quot;second front&quot; by invading France. Winston Churchill, increasingly the odd-man-out in the triumvirate, argued fruitlessly to open up the new front by invading through the Balkans or through Italy, the better to cut off Soviet advances into central Europe. Unlike Roosevelt, he had no illusions about Stalin's master plan and motives.

Both Roosevelt and Stalin knew alsowhat Churchill was certain would happen if the Soviet armies were able to overrun Eastern Europe and also Germany: those countries would remain under Soviet rule. Roosevelt, the &quot;great liberator,&quot; was comfortable with the idea. West writes, quoting Francis Cardinal Spellman's recollections from his September 3rd, 1943 meeting with Roosevelt:

&quot;The European people will simply have to endure the Russian domination in the hope that in ten or twenty years they will be able to live well with the Russians,&quot; Spellman recounted FDR saying at this pre-Tehran, pre-Yalta moment. Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Bessarabia, the eastern half of Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Germany - FDR conceded  all  to Communist r'egimes or Soviet protection! What is most weird and most disturbing about Roosevelt's obdurate fatalism is that the entire Red Army at this time was  still inside the USSR . (p. 266)

Of course Roosevelt's &quot;fatalism&quot; saved him the necessity of making a moral judgment. That was moral relativism at work, his &quot;convergence&quot; kicking in to relieve him of all responsibility for the certain misery and deaths that were sure to follow a Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe. Don't bother me, don't bother me. I don't want to know.

And so Eisenhower became Supreme Allied Commander and began planning D-Day.

 German overtures to end war in 1943 rejected 

Integral to understanding why Stalin wanted his &quot;second front&quot; is West's revelations that not only was there an extensive German underground dedicated to ridding the country of Hitler and ending the war - an underground the U.S. refused to assist or aid in any way - but that Roosevelt, beholden to Stalin, rejected several overtures from high-ranking German officers to kill or incarcerate Hitler, establish a provisional, non-Nazi government,  and sue for peace - but on the condition that German forces released from fighting the British and Americans be free to repel the Red Army from Germany and other regions then held by the Nazis. The war could have ended in 1943, long before the costly D-Day invasion through France in June 1944. Had that surrender happened, D-Day would never have taken place. It wouldn't have been necessary.

Churchill, sympathetic to the idea, was helpless. Stalin wanted Germany reduced to rubble.

A German surrender in 1943 would have been premature for Stalin and spoiled his plans to conquer as much of Europe as possible without bumping into Anglo-American forces coming from the west. He insisted on a &quot;second front&quot; and Roosevelt obliged him, with Churchill's strategic advice shunted to the side as irrelevant.  All the men in the conspiracy to stage a  coup d''etat  against Hitler were subsequently executed by Hitler's henchmen, including Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of German military intelligence, who had been aiding British intelligence, and who was baffled by Roosevelt's resistance.  (pp. 282-286, pp. 308-309)

The repatriation of Russians and Europeans to the Soviets by British and American forces, on order from Washington, was another shameful episode discussed by West, one not known to very many Americans. Ordering General Patton to stop his pell-mell drive so that the Red Army could take Berlin is a bit of history that hasn't been covered up. There is the issue of tens of thousands of American and British POWs in German camps being &quot;liberated&quot; by the Red Army and subsequently incarcerated in Soviet labor camps.

There is one pre-war episode not mentioned by West but which has always stuck in my mind, one I read about long ago as a teen and which inaugurated my suspicions that WWII was not entirely conducted as I'd read in history books. This was story about the  S.S. St. Louis , which left Hamburg, Germany in May 1939 with 900 Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution. After being turned away by Cuba, the ship called on Miami, Florida. No one was allowed to enter the country because of an annual quota on immigrants. After being rebuffed by the Canadians, as well, the ship sailed to Antwerp, where many of the passengers were taken in by Britain, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.

When the Nazis invaded the Continental countries, there was no escape for the remaining 620 passengers taken in by those countries. It is estimated that 254 of them died from one Nazi reason or another.

My point here is that the U.S.'s ersatz immigrant quota system denied all those passengers a chance to survive and live. Today, we allow the virtually unlimited immigration of Muslims, and are contemplating allowing millions of illegal Mexican aliens, under the rubric of &quot;amnesty,&quot; to remain here to better ensure a Democratic victory in 2016. This is a form of &quot;convergence&quot; not even Roosevelt could have contemplated or imagined. He opened the gates to one form of enemy; Obama and his minions continue to open them to another.

Diana West has done this country a favor by putting between two covers the record of a long, disgraceful period in American history. She will not receive very many thanks or compliments for having done so. She is likely to be reviled and smeared, when it is Franklin D. Roosevelt's person and record that should be reviled, together with the Soviets' top agent, Harry Hopkins.  

Moral and political relativism, she demonstrated, allowed the U.S. to tolerate the Soviets and their murderous totalitarian r'egime in the Red Decade, and then become an &quot;ally&quot; with it to crush a rival totalitarian r'egime, that of the Nazis. It inoculated Roosevelt, a political pragmatist with strong left-wing premises, against knowledge of the terrible and freedom-destroying nature of Communism, while,  au contraire , at the same time allowed him and his agents to decry the terrible and freedom-destroying nature of Nazism.

West's book initially began as an enquiry into why 9/11 was met with the government's ambivalence and delusions about the nature of Islam. Observing the inroads Islam and Sharia law were making in the U.S.,  she was certain that Islam was not so much a primitive religion as an all-encompassing totalitarian ideology, one as committed to conquest and slavery as had been Nazism, Communism, and Shintoism. If the government had raised the hue and cry about the evils of Nazism, why not about the evils of Islam?  

Because Roosevelt, Hopkins, and their allies in the State Department and other government entities practiced their own brand of uncritical &quot;outreach&quot; to Communism and the Soviet Union.

Her search for an answer led her to discover  and  uncover, as far as the surviving records permitted her, all the lies and truths about Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Stalin, Communism, and the real reasons why the U.S. was drawn into a war whose only real victor was the Soviet Union. No hue and cry was ever raised by anyone in power about the evils of Communism, she discovered. Why not? And those few who did raise the hue and cry were mocked, smeared, marginalized, discredited, ignored, and banished from serious discussion. Why?

What would permit our government, the leader of the &quot;free world,&quot; to participate in and perpetuate the suppression of the truth about Communism and the Soviet Union, and to enlarge the area of the unfree world with an insouciant cry of  C'est la vie ? What would motivate it to con Americans year after year and throughout a devastating war?

If our national character is defined as one of incorrigible individualism and freedom from fiat or arbitrary coercion, what had happened to it?

These were the questions she sought answers to.

One answer she learned was that by 1933, our government had indeed reached another kind of &quot;convergence,&quot; one in which truth and liberty met power-lust at a vector point and were demolished by a craving for power over men as a means of having power over reality, and that such power-lust would readily discard all principles and all commitment to upholding not just the Constitution, but the value of freedom. West does not go into the history of that growing power, which can be traced back to certain ideas and actions taken by men in government in the 19th and early 20th centuries to implement those ideas, and advocated by numerous groups, the most prominent of which were the Progressives.

On one hand, the culprits did not value the truth. On the other, they feared its power and went to extraordinary lengths to suppress it, erected ideological barricades to block it from public knowledge, and punished those who spoke the truth or threatened to tell the truth.

It's all here in  American Betrayal . Read it at your own risk.

West's lesson to Americans: Reality can't be redacted, buried, fabricated, falsified, or omitted. Her book is eloquent proof of it.


*  American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character,  by Diana West. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2013.

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By JACK DATE ( @JackDate )
June 14, 2013
An Ohio man who rigged his Jeep Patriot to ram the White House gates has told authorities that he planned to spray paint the &quot;don'' tread on me&quot; snake somewhere on the White House complex or &quot;die trying,&quot; according to court documents released today.

Photos of Joseph Reel's wrecked car and the 200 rounds of ammunition, knives, machetes and other items found in his car were released today along with details of Reel's plan to spray graffiti on the White House.

Reel, 32, of Kettering, Ohio, has been charged with destruction of property and is being held in federal custody.

The suspect aimed his car at the White House gates and a security post manned by uniformed Secret Service officers shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday and sent it charging at a speed of 35 to 40 mph, according to court documents.

After the car crashed into a steel bike rack and a security bollard, officers found that the vehicle had no driver. A wooden block was secured to the gas pedal by Velcro and the steering wheel was strapped into place.

The Secret Service deployed the Emergency Response Team and the Counter Sniper Team, as well as the Explosives Ordinance Disposal Team.

Reel, meanwhile set off down 17th Street on a bicycle where he was encountered by a Secret Service officer, the court papers state. The officer asked Reel what he was doing and he replied he was &quot;trying to see what was going on.&quot;

Officers told him to move out of the area, but Reel rode his bicycle 25 feet, set it down and proceeded to climb the fence outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, according to affidavits.

Reel, who was wearing a camouflage T-shirt, was pursued through the grounds after he ignored orders from two officers to stop and was quickly apprehended carrying a can of spray paint wrapped in tape.

He told officers he intended to paint the &quot;don't tread on me snake somewhere on the complex,&quot; the affidavit states.

A search of his car found eight knives, two machetes and hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a hand held spotting scope that he told officers he used to surveil the White House grounds, the court document states.

They also found that Reel was carrying hidden in his fingerless gloves a handcuff key, the paperwork states.

In a YouTube video that Reel recorded, he vows that, &quot;I'm just going to walk right up to their front door, and I'm going to spray paint the 'Don't Tread on Me' snake on it. Or I'm going to die trying.&quot;

In the angry 8.5 minute long video, Reel states that the &quot;voice of the 'Tea Party: and 'End Government Waste and Abuse' was bullied, stifled, and destroyed by the IRS, while at the same time, the voice of 'free stuff if you vote for me' why, that voice was expedited by the IRS and allowed to flourish.&quot;

He also talks about government spying and ammunition purchases by the Department of Homeland Security.

More ominously, Reel calls on others to &quot;round up a few of your most trusted friends to whom you would trust your life to, to bring your favorite weapons - the ones you're most comfortable with, the ones that you're skilled with, and arrive in your vehicles- your favorite vehicles that've been modified for combat.&quot;

After securing a search warrant for his Ohio home, law enforcement officers found numerous guns, a spear, a sword, a baseball bat with affixed spikes, two ballistic vests, a gas mask and a metal face shield, he document states.

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