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- On 18 May 2013
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Reagan was Great president.,
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SUN NOV 23, 2008 AT 08:44 AM PST
The Last Great President: John Kennedy and why.
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President John Kennedy was the last truly courageous and great U.S. President that this Nation had.
Kennedy a serious government reformist, with a deep understanding of American Revolutionary History.
Kennedy fought the corrupt Federal Reserve profiteers, and their monopolistic control over our Nation's money supply, in the tradition of our Founding Fathers, who had revolted against the similar Bank of England private Central Bank scheme, and he, like President Lincoln, printed debt-free, interest-free, "United States Notes" in 1963 (circumventing the debt generating "Federal Reserve Notes" system), which is the way that our Country was intended to work -- instead of the debt generating, Federal Reserve system that steals from taxpayers to enrich the global Banking elites ( the Rothchilds, J.P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, Chase, etc.)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/11/23/665326/-The-Last-Great-President-John-Kennedy-and-why# - On 18 May 2013
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Reagan was Great president.,
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BOTTOM LINE
The true costs of Reagan
and extreme capitalism
by Sam Smith
Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of that remarkable moment when this country began to turn its back on values that had sustained it throughout its first two centuries - values that included balancing power and wealth with concern for, cooperation with, and compassion towards others in the community we called America. In their place came a psychotic faith in the ubiquitous virtue of the market, a faith almost creationist in its absence of objective foundation, intellectually barren when not actually dishonest, and as monomaniacal as the creed of the religious fundamentalist. Every other aspect of existence - religion, family, morality, creativity, politics, community, tradition, ethnicity - was declared merely a byproduct of the marketplace.
True, America had always been a highly commercial culture. And it had gone through periods - such as that of the 19th robber barons or the 1920s - when its better nature was submerged or perverted by a corrupt culture of greed, but in these prior instances it had been generally clear who the true beneficiaries were and there had been little effort, even by these lucky few, to pretend, for example, that the luck of the Goulds, Carnegies or Rockefellers were but a tax cut away from the rest the country.
With Reagan, however, that all changed. For the first time in our history, the self-serving delusions of the privileged few became the standard for the whole nation, propagated in politics, on campuses and in the media. Even liberals would begin to adopt the language of extreme capitalism. Few asked for the evidence to support its thesis or examine critically its deceptive logic.
To give some sense of the cultural eruption that had occurred, consider some remarks from the 1960s. The first were delivered in 1964 by Lyndon Johnson:
http://prorev.com/extreme.htm - On 18 May 2013
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Reagan was Great president.,
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February 28, 2013
Reagan aided Guatemalan genocide
Robert Parry, Consortium News. Soon after taking office in 1981, President Ronald Reagan’s national security team agreed to supply military aid to the brutal right-wing regime in Guatemala to pursue the goal of exterminating not only “Marxist guerrillas” but their “civilian support mechanisms,” according to a newly disclosed document from the National Archives.
Over the next several years, the military assistance from the Reagan administration helped the Guatemalan army do just that, engaging in the slaughter of some 100,000 people, including what a truth commission deemed genocide against the Mayan Indians in the northern highlands.
Vernon Walters, a former deputy director of the CIA who served as President Ronald Reagan’s ambassador-at-large in the early 1980s.
Recently discovered documents at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, also reveal that Reagan’s White House was reaching out to Israel in a scheme to circumvent congressional restrictions on military equipment for the Guatemalan military.
In 1983, national security aide Oliver North (who later became a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal) reported in a memo that Reagan’s Deputy National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane (another key Iran-Contra figure) was approaching Israel over how to deliver 10 UH-1H helicopters to Guatemala to give the army greater mobility in its counterinsurgency war.
According to these documents that I found at the Reagan library – and other records declassified in the late 1990s – it’s also clear that Reagan and his administration were well aware of the butchery underway in Guatemala and elsewhere in Central America.
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