[American Thinker] As we witness the Democrat party’s descent into socialism and Marxism, we need to remind ourselves, and our Democrat counterparts: "What have Karl Marx’s teachings actually produced?"
The results of politicos implementing Marxism were, a) Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who killed 10—100 million of his own people, b) Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator who executed about 3 million of his own people (more than 1/3 of the entire Cambodian population), and c) the Chinese regime, which executes Christians at a staggering rate, and with Mao Tse Tung having murdered about 60 million people.
Let’s also not forget the identity of the socialist party leader in Germany from 1921 to 1945, Adolf Hitler; the party’s official name was the National German Socialist Workers’ Party. Historians estimate that at least 17 million people lost their lives, both directly and indirectly, as a result of that political movement.
What kind of teachings are found in Marx’s Communist Manifesto?
The abolition of private property.
Heavy progressive income tax.
The abolition of rights of inheritance.
Advocacy for a central bank.
Government ownership of communication and transportation.
Government ownership of factories and agriculture.
Government control of labor.
Corporate farms, regional planning.
"Free" education for all children in public schools, and the combination of education with industrial production.
Remember Vladimir Lenin’s purported promise about state education? "Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik [communist] forever."
We must remember the United States is not a democracy. Governments of pure democracy become totalitarian. Under a socialist democracy, the system American leftists continue to vie for, laws come from man’s opinion, rights aren’t God-given but privileges granted by the government, able to be revoked at any time, and government should be the all-powerful provider.
The U.S. is a constitutional republic, founded on specific moral principles: Rights are "unalienable" (God-given), as stated in the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the government exists for one sole and limited purpose, and that is to secure those rights.
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Remember all yesterday's parties,
Young hell-raising, covetous smarties?
*professional Red
gnaws a socialist's head...
comrades feast on deceased arty-farties*
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Israel is a market-oriented, mixed-economy democracy, whereas the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers' Party) operated a totalitarian, command-influenced fascist regime that systematically dismantled free labor unions and private economic independence while retaining private property for compliant capitalists.
Comparing the two through the lens of "socialism" relies on fundamentally different historical and economic definitions:
Israel's Economic System
• Historical Roots: Israel's early state-building was heavily influenced by socialist and labor Zionist ideals, notably through cooperative communities like Kibbutzim and the Histadrut labor federation.
• Modern Economy: Since late-20th-century neoliberal and market reforms, Israel transitioned into a largely market-oriented, high-tech, and capitalist economy.
• Current Status: Today, Israel functions as a parliamentary democracy with a mixed economy characterized by a strong private sector, private property rights, and a modern social democratic safety net.
The Nazi Party's Economic System
• The "Socialist" Label: The National Socialist German Workers' Party included "Socialist" in its name for political and populist appeal during the 1920s to attract working-class voters, not because it practiced Marxist or traditional socialism.
• Actual Economic Policy: Once in power, Adolf Hitler abolished independent trade unions, suppressed socialist and communist opposition, and privatized many state-owned banks and railways in the 1930s.
• Totalitarian Control: While the Nazi state exercised immense regulatory and directive control over private corporations—forcing them to produce for war and rearmament—it preserved private enterprise and corporate ownership rather than public or worker ownership of the means of production. It is classified by historians as a totalitarian/fascist regime rather than a socialist one.
[Reuters] WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced widespread rebuke from civil rights groups, healthcare advocates and Democrats on Tuesday over his anti-Arab comments that the Council on American-Islamic Relations cast as "a textbook display of unvarnished racism and bigotry."
In his remarks on Monday at a campaign event in Michigan where Republican Mike Rogers is running for the US Senate against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, the US health secretary falsely claimed that Arabs had not won major international awards and "don't produce" science and literature.
"There's 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don't produce science, they don't win the Nobel Prize, they don't win the Fields prize, they don't win the Wolf Prize, they don't produce literature," the US health chief said.
Arabs have won all those prizes. Peter Hotez, who is a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine and specializes in vaccine development and tropical medicine, said his late colleague, Nobel Prize winner Ahmed Zewail, who was Arab and died in 2016, "would disagree" with the US health chief's comments.
The Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
US rights advocates have raised concerns over escalating rhetoric against Muslims, Arabs, immigrants and ethnic minorities by President Donald Trump and his allies during the ongoing midterm election campaign.
"Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vile anti-Arab rant is a textbook display of unvarnished racism and bigotry," the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which documents hate against Muslims and Arabs in the US, said on Tuesday.
"His sweeping erasure of Arab contributions to humanity is not only maliciously false, but it also fans the flames of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate at a time when communities are already vulnerable to bigoted attacks from other public officials nationwide."
Kennedy said the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the Arab world's oldest and most influential Islamist groups founded almost a century ago, has "created stagnant societies."
Republicans have claimed, without evidence, El-Sayed has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood even as the Democrat has publicly disavowed the group and denied any connection to it.
El-Sayed, who is Muslim, has faced a host of anti-Muslim attacks during the campaign. Over the weekend, Trump invoked the September 11, 2001, attacks when speaking about El-Sayed, whom he has also repeatedly and falsely called a "jihadist."
Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy also responded to the US health secretary's comments.
"I really think everyone needs to pay attention to this coordinated campaign to delegitimize Muslim Americans — not just as citizens but as humans."
US healthcare advocacy organization and nonprofit Protect Our Care cast Kennedy's comments as a "wildly racist tirade."
Kennedy, who has pushed his anti-vaccine views in his role as the top health official, was also in Michigan on Monday to promote funding for Detroit's health department and touted agreements with hospitals to offer healthier food.
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Nobel Prize winner Ahmed Zewail, who was Arab and died in 2016, "would disagree" with the US health chief's comments.
Him and Baraq Obama. Who else?
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Zewail did all his Chemistry work in the USA where he lived the last 40 years of his life, having become an American citizen in the 1980s.
He is the only Arab who received a nobel prize in STEM. There have been several Arabs who received a peace prize (notably Yassar Arafat in 94) and one who won a Literature prize.
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Aka... he spoke the truth. I sure as fuck don't have anything positive to say about those sand humpers.
[Reuters] On more than 100,000 acres of Nevada desert east of Reno, one of the world's largest concentrations of data centers is taking shape, providing years of work for thousands of electricians, pipefitters and other union tradespeople who are building it.
About 400 miles southeast, along the iconic Las Vegas Strip, the AI technology powered by such data centers is taking a toll: Self-driving Zoox and Waymos are replacing human-driven taxis and valets; casino floor bartenders are being replaced by robots; and MGM's (MGM.N), opens new tab massive call center is slashing hundreds of jobs.
That split screen is challenging the Nevada Teamsters, a politically powerful network of local labor unions representing 30,000 workers across the construction, transportation and hospitality industries, many of whom will be voting in the Nov. 3 elections. Some want to see new data-center construction halted or slowed. Others view the boom as a gift.
"My job is to represent all of our unions," said Ross Kinson, the Nevada Teamsters’ political director, adding the group had launched a process in April to find a unified stance ahead of the November polls.
"This is a very, very important issue to the building trades, and it's providing a lot of jobs and creating good opportunities for a lot of people." But, he said, he has been encouraging members to consider the flip side: "What is it doing to our jobs?"
Nevada unions’ soul-searching reflects the national debate underway over whether regulation should slow down AI development amid conflicting projections of job destruction and creation – and whether AI will ultimately lift humanity or harm it.
It’s likely to affect Nevada's voting on Nov. 3.
The Nevada Teamsters interviewed more than 180 political candidates from both parties ahead of the election, Kinson said. Those who didn’t support strong worker protections, or those looking for an outright ban on new data-center construction, were unlikely to win the union's backing.
"It's a political minefield for politicians to tiptoe through," said Kinson.
Nevada will also play a significant role in the 2028 presidential elections as the second state in the Democratic primary schedule behind South Carolina.
ROBOT BARTENDERS
On a suburban street just off the Las Vegas Strip, 63-year-old Larry Goldfinger and a group of fellow Teamsters he jokingly calls "the walking dead" trudge through the desert heat, clipboards in hand. They’re knocking on doors to promote candidates they believe will protect the city’s workers from AI-driven job losses.
Goldfinger has spent nearly three decades as a valet at some of the Strip's most iconic casinos, and another decade in Vegas hospitality jobs – work he now fears will dry up as AI automation takes over everything from concierge services to bartending.
"I raised my family, and I have had a good life doing it, and I feel like these guys that are 30ish aren't going to be able to do that," he said, wearing a Teamsters baseball cap to shield his head from the Nevada sun.
He’s right. The situation has been changing for over a generation. My darling father-in-law was a steel worker for Bethlehem Steel. They regularly went on strike during the 1960s and early ‘70s for higher wages and benefits, which they always got. By the mid-80s, the plant closed permanently, one of the first in a process that ended with the company closing for good in 2003, nor were they the only one — Michale Moore made a movie about another one in Detroit. The Teamsters somehow held the line until now.
By 2035, AI and automation could put up to 92,000 Southern Nevada hospitality jobs at risk, or roughly one-third of that workforce, according to an analysis by RCG Economics.
Teamsters Local 986 has already been losing call-center workers at casinos to AI automation, while taxi drivers and valets face pressure from the expansion of autonomous-vehicle fleets operated by Waymo and Zoox. Robot bartenders and touchscreen hotel check-ins have also become increasingly common.
MGM Resorts laid off around 200 call-center workers last year, Kinson said. On a recent investor call, MGM International CFO Jonathan Halkyard said about 80% of guest interactions "now take place via AI/digital platforms."
MGM declined to comment for this story but directed Reuters to a labor contract it had reached with culinary union members in 2023. It promised advanced notice of AI-driven job losses along with health care and severance pay for those affected.
The Las Vegas economy is no stranger to booms, busts and technological change. But how it navigates the AI-era will have huge consequences, said John Restrepo, principal of RCG Economics.
"If they use those tools to just do massive job displacement, that's not going to be good," he said.
Goldfinger said he worries the rise of AI in Las Vegas will not only cost the city lots of jobs, but also ultimately hurt business by making it less welcoming to tourists accustomed to interacting with well-trained hospitality staff.
"We are not against the changes," he said. "We just want to make sure we are involved in how it's changing."
NEW GOLD RUSH
Every morning, Christopher Williams joins the traffic along the USA Parkway in northern Nevada's high desert on his way to an expanding cluster of data centers owned by Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, Switch, Tract and others in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center.
The historic mining region was the site of a 19th-century gold rush, briefly earning Storey County the label of "the richest place on earth."
Williams, a 20-year-old with curly black hair and glasses, is part of the new rush, this time for high-paying data-center jobs.
He moved from northern California to Reno last year after struggling to get enough hours as a line cook earning $18.50 an hour. Now he’s making more than $22 an hour and works 45 to 60 hours a week.
"I might not fully agree with data centers being built everywhere, but they are helping a lot of people," he said. "If I don't take the job, somebody else will, and it's a lot of money left on the table."
For local officials, the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center has been a lifeline after a prolonged economic slump.
"We're finding that our economy is more stable than it used to be as a primarily gaming and tourism economy, and it's providing opportunities, especially for young people that want to stay," said County Commissioner Clay Mitchell.
According to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center has generated 850,000 work hours per month in 2026 – up from about the same number during all of 2022.
BABY AND THE BATHWATER
The Nevada Teamsters’ internal discussions have led it to endorse Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford for governor, Kinson said.
Ford, who is seeking to unseat Republican incumbent Governor Joe Lombardo, has proposed halting new data-center tax abatements and requiring developers to shield residents from higher energy costs, and also wants strong regulation protecting jobs from AI - the right balance to appeal to the spectrum of Teamsters unions, Kinson said.
Ford had consulted with the Teamsters before launching his data-center platform this summer and hosted his first town hall about the issue at the Teamsters Local 14.
Lombardo has championed data centers as a major economic driver, calling the industry a "new gold rush", but had been slower to embrace checks and balances on the industry, according to Kinson.
In September, Lombardo imposed new restrictions on some of the generous tax incentives that lured the industry to the state.
Lombardo did not respond to requests for comment.
The union’s influence tends to be significant. In 2025, union members accounted for about 13% of wage and salary workers in Nevada, compared to 10% nationwide, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In other parts of the United States, the data-center issue has also been key to union endorsement decisions.
In Kansas, for example, Republican gubernatorial candidate Ty Masterson won backing from the state's largest transit and railroad union, as well as from a local chapter of the IBEW electrical workers union, after Democratic rival Cindy Holscher called for a moratorium on data-center development.
It marked the first time in more than 50 years that the Kansas transit union backed a Republican candidate for governor.
Sean McGarvey, president of North America's Building Trades Unions, said – just like in Nevada – there is a division in the wider labor community around AI and data centers. But banning new data centers, he said, will never get their support.
"We don't throw the baby out with the bathwater," he said. "This is one of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to reindustrialize the country."
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited by Mark Leshkevich
[Regnum] On October 27, 1917, Edgar Sisson, a special representative of the Committee on Public Information under President Woodrow Wilson, left the United States for revolutionary Petrograd.
The committee had been created just months earlier, in April 1917. Its members included the US Secretary of State, the Secretary of War and the Navy, and numerous public relations experts. The committee was headed by George Creel, a journalist and advertising specialist who led what would now be called a successful public relations campaign, which led to Wilson's re-election.
The Creel Committee—through media, advertising, and the new art form of cinema—convinced Americans of the wisdom of joining World War I. The poster featuring Uncle Sam pointing, saying, "I want you in the U.S. Army!" was the work of the Creel Committee. The domestic version, featuring a Red Army soldier asking, "Have you volunteered?", appeared later.
As Committee member Secretary of War Newton Baker explained, Creel's team was engaged in consciousness mobilization.
As early as the summer of 1917, the Committee on Public Information began working for a foreign audience, conveying the “correct” opinion about US foreign policy.
The Americans didn't invent war propaganda. But they were arguably the first to aim to influence not the fighting army or their own population, but rather the citizens of allied and neutral countries—"simply" by talking about the American Way of Life and the liberal political system that had enabled the United States to achieve wealth and prosperity.
"COMRADE DEMOCRATS - IVAN AND UNCLE SAM"
Sisson's mission in October 1917 initially had precisely this goal: with the support of the Provisional Government of the Russian Republic, to explain to the former "subjects of the Tsar" that only the democratic United States could be true allies and patrons of the new, free Russia—both in the war with "reactionary" Germany and after the war, when the United States would become the leading country in the new world.
The "mobilization of consciousness" of the Russian allies began even before the dispatch of the Sisson mission - in the summer of 1917, through the missions of the American Red Cross, the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), and other charitable organizations.
The sixteen-page American Bulletin, a weekly free newsletter from the American Committee on Public Information, was translated into Russian. The circulation of this collection of carefully curated news from the United States and materials on American life reached approximately 50,000 copies. Recipients included newspapers, schools, libraries, trade unions, councils, zemstvos, and cooperative associations.
The Americans were particularly counting on cooperatives. The mailing list included approximately 800 cooperative unions, which united over 10,000 companies. This channel allowed them to literally penetrate the workplaces of Russian residents.
They also used the “most important of the arts” – there is information about the transfer of translated copies of the films “The Immigrant in Uncle Sam’s Country” and “All for Peace”.
Edgar Sisson was tasked with bringing together all propaganda and pseudo-educational campaigns under one headquarters, linked to the Creel Committee's headquarters in Washington and the White House.
MR. SISSON IN THE LAND OF THE BOLSHEVIKS
But by the time public opinion specialists reached Petrograd in November, force majeure had already occurred. The Provisional Government had fallen, the Bolsheviks had adopted the "Decree on Peace" and were hastily preparing a separate peace with the enemies of the Entente. Meanwhile, civil war was brewing in Russia.
We had to adjust on the fly.
De jure, the United States did not recognize the Bolshevik leadership (this would only happen in 1933). But in 1917, the new government was not strong enough to declare American missions undesirable organizations.
Sisson calmly took charge of the American newspaper offices and organized the dispatch of news to the Petrograd Telegraph Agency.
But the main information product was the translation of Wilson's January 8, 1918, speech outlining his program for a postwar world order. According to the Americans themselves, over 4 million copies were distributed at the front and rear. Posters with the text were also sent to railway stations.
The committee developed its own distribution system: eleven full-time employees managed a vast network of couriers. Russian-language printed materials were sent from Petrograd to Moscow (two curators worked daily at Moscow train stations).
In July 1918 alone, the Americans reported almost 480,000 units of printed matter distributed, originating from the new capital of Soviet Russia – Moscow.
And all this happened during the months when Washington was planning a military invasion of Russia.
MASS MANIPULATION
As early as the spring, the Wilson administration was discussing direct intervention on the outskirts of the disintegrating Russian Empire—in Pomorie, the Far East, and Siberia. On July 17, 1918, the position became clear. The decision was made to send up to 8,000 American troops to Siberia to support the rebellion of the Czechoslovak Corps.
That same day, the State Department discussed an economic and "educational" mission to Siberia. It was planned to include entrepreneurs, agricultural specialists, labor advisors, the Red Cross, and YMCA representatives familiar with information dissemination methods.
Washington explained its invasion of Russia as aid to the Czechoslovakians (who allegedly only wanted to peacefully return to their homeland) and the protection of American property in ports in northern Russia.
On September 4, 1918, the American expedition arrived in Arkhangelsk. Guarding the warehouses quickly became more than just guarding.
David Francis, who served as the US Ambassador to Russia until 1918, was already discussing on August 27 the possible advance of American troops further – to Kotlas, Sukhona, Vologda, and in the future he mentioned Petrograd and Moscow as possible targets.
And increasingly, the actions of the American expeditionary forces were explained by the need to support “Russian self-defense.”
Later, the US State Department, under the leadership of Secretary of State Robert Lansing, a member of the Committee on Public Information, formulated the task more subtly: the American contingent “serves” Russia, “liberating” it from the Bolsheviks as an instrument of external power.
The Sisson documents deserve special attention.
The Committee on Public Information distributed materials intended to "prove" the Bolsheviks' connection to the German government. In White-controlled Siberia, a special brochure about a German conspiracy to establish control over Russia was published in 100,000 copies.
Contemporary American historian John Maxwell Hamilton, author of the 2020 monograph "Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda," has convincingly proven that the Sisson documents were fabricated.
Hamilton and his colleague, propaganda historian Christina Georgakopoulos, wrote in the journal Intelligence and National Security that the American government deliberately disseminated the Sisson documents, reinforcing the image of the Bolsheviks as German agents. The names of those who organized the campaigns "on the ground" are also known.
AMERICAN PROPAGANDA FROM CHINA
Sisson Mission specialists Malcolm Davis and William Adams Brown traveled to China from Moscow via Siberia in the spring of 1918, exploring the possibilities of information campaigns. Their method was quite subtle. Direct propaganda attacks on the Bolsheviks were not always considered beneficial. Davis and Brown believed it was far more useful to talk about the principles of American democracy, the goals of the Allies, the American army, production, and the situation of workers.
Harbin, a city in Manchuria that served as a rear base for the Russian White armies, became the center of American propaganda dissemination. Harbin was home to Russian émigrés, entrepreneurs, politicians, and employees of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Americans targeted the city to ensure that Russians from various social strata would then spread American "news" back to Russia.
The American consul in Harbin received $5,000 from the Committee on Public Information for an information campaign that included showing about sixty American films and distributing books and brochures.
95,000 copies of printed materials were destined for Yekaterinburg, 142,000 for Omsk, 17,500 for Novo-Nikolaevsk (Novosibirsk), 122,200 for Irkutsk, 70,000 for Chita, 24,000 for Harbin, and 44,900 for Vladivostok. Another 6,750 copies were transported in a special wagon of the Committee for Public Information.
Newspapers were experiencing a shortage of information from wire services. Americans filled this void with their own texts translated into Russian.
"We set up office space and set to work to change public opinion about the war," wrote Malcolm Davis. "We began to literally flood the newspapers with telegrams, already translated into Russian and provided free of charge."
Davis went on to note the change in tone in editorials as a cumulative result of propaganda.
The telegraph service, through Kolchak's Omsk news agency, eventually covered approximately 150 Siberian newspapers. American centers in Vladivostok supplied the branches with fresh bulletins, and field staff received pre-translated articles weekly.
Davis's colleague Brown traveled around the country, and after Perm was captured by anti-Bolshevik forces, he went there. American literature was then dropped from airplanes across the front lines.
None of the external powers that intervened in the Russian civil war—neither the British, nor the French, nor the Japanese—"explained" their policies on such a scale as the Americans did.
The Creel Committee campaign in Russia had to be curtailed simultaneously with the expeditionary force's work. By 1919, the White armies were clearly losing, and cooperation with them was turning into a "bad deal."
But a massive propaganda campaign on foreign soil became one of the US's first experiences in cognitive warfare—a war for minds. These developments would later be developed and used—both by media outlets openly working for the US government and by ostensibly independent media. Shaping public opinion would become one of the main tasks of intelligence agencies.
[NYP] "I love America," Michigan’s US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed insists.
That’s as fake as the "y’alls" he sprinkled into his speech on Saturday, as he pandered to an African-American audience at a rally featuring Barack Obama.
And it’s only one of El-Sayed’s lies.
His paper trail of academic writings, published long before he ran for any political office, shows what he actually believes.
The consistent theme is a shrill warning that if you’re Arab-American, assimilating into American society is dangerous to your health.
Eleven Muslim-Americans are running for Congress in next week’s midterm elections — overall, a positive sign that one of the nation’s fastest-growing immigrant groups is buying into our political values.
Several of these candidates, like Zuhdi Jasser in Arizona, are fine people.
But El -Sayed is a phony.
As a medical student at Columbia University (he graduated but never completed his residency to qualify to practice), El-Sayed wrote a string of papers purporting to prove that Arab-Americans who blend into American society face numerous risks — from giving birth prematurely to succumbing to suicide.
His message to fellow Muslim-Americans is clear: Live in America, but do not become American.
In a 2011 paper published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, El-Sayed warned of the hazards of “interethnic mating” — that is, having a child with a non-Arab.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
