Ironic Surrealism v3.0

Van Jones a failed radical revolutionary changes his persona just enough to be able  sneak in the back door as a greenie all the way to White House! Obama & Dems embrace him. The far left ideologues Obama surrounds himself with are far to numerous to not be a reflection of Obama’s politics.

Van Jones stated he made his controversial remarks before he worked for Obama Admin. As if that makes much difference. The audio in the YouTube video below is dated April 8 2008.

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“Right after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat if the civil rights leaders had jumped out and said OK now we want reparations for Slavery, we want redistribution of all the wealth, and we want to legalize mixed marriages. If we’d come out with a maximum program the very next day, they’d been laughed at. Instead they came out with a very minimum. “We just want to integrate these busses…” But, inside that minimum demand was a very radical kernel that eventually meant that from 1964 to 1968 complete revolution was on the table for this country.

And, I think that this green movement has to pursue those same steps and stages. Right now we say we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to something eco-capitalism where at least we’re not fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Will that be enough? No, it won’t be enough. We want to go beyond the systems of exploitation and oppression all together. But, that’s a process and I think that’s what’s great about the movement that is beginning to emerge is that the CRISIS is so severe in terms of joblessness, violence and now ecological threats that people are willing to be both pragmatic and visionary. So the green economy will start off as a small subset and we are going to push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole society.

The opposite of up is down. The opposite of right is left.

The opposite of capitalism is communism.

Van Jones is a bloody commie. What does that make Obama?

If only Obama had the cajones to admit it already.

What an effing coward.

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I will search for the transcript. Stay tuned.

Update 5: Found it!

GLENN BECK: We have new video from oh, so long ago. It was youthful indiscretions in 2008. The White House’s own words, they have been following him for years, since he has been in Oakland. When he was in Oakland, he was a communist. But the White House’s own words, they have been following him for years. Let me find the brand new audio that was found by Breitbart and sent to me last night. Here it is, Van Jones in his own words. It will be in the e mail newsletter today. Listen carefully, and I want to pull it apart piece by piece.

VAN JONES: One of the things that has happened I think too often to progressives is that we don’t understand the relationship between minimum goals and maximum goals.

GLENN: Stop. Minimum goals and maximum goals. He’s going to explain this, but I want you to realize this goes to remember when I talked about Gandalf and I said, “You shall not pass!” I’ve been telling you for a while there’s things in this framework. They are building something. I don’t know what they’re building, but they’re building something. Don’t allow anything else to go through. Listen to how he explains minimum and maximum goals.

VAN JONES: “Right after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat if the civil rights leaders had jumped out and said OK now we

GLENN: Stop. This is Rosa Parks. He is now tying the civil rights movement to three very important things. The civil rights movement he is now saying, at least the way I read it, that the goal was this. Listen.

VAN JONES: Reparations for slavery

GLENN: Stop. We want reparations for slavery. Two.

VAN JONES: We want redistribution of all wealth.

GLENN: Stop. We want redistribution of all wealth. Redistribution of all wealth. And three.

VAN JONES: And we want to legalize mixed marriages.

GLENN: Stop. I was that the goal in the 1950s and Sixties?

PAT: That’s not the goal now.

GLENN: I mean, I

PAT: For blacks, they were the largest voting Block against Prop 8 in California. 67% of blacks voted against Prop 8. For

GLENN: Wait, wait. Mixed marriages?

PAT: Oh, we’re thinking the other kind of marriages, all right.

GLENN: All right. So mixed marriages, white and black. You think that’s what he means?

STU: That’s what I took from that because I could be wrong.

GLENN: I wonder, I believe

PAT: Well, they weren’t illegal, were they? In the south maybe?

STU: I don’t know. I’m not

GLENN: That I don’t know. I don’t know. Well, give him the benefit of the doubt that he means black and white marriages. I don’t think that’s what he means but let’s give him the benefit of the doubt on that one. Okay. Go ahead.

VAN JONES: If they come out with a maximum program the very next day, they would have been laughed at. Instead they came out with a very minimum program: You know, we just want to integrate these buses. The students a few years later came out with a very minimum program, we just want to sit at the lunch counter. But inside that minimum demand was a very radical kernel that eventually meant that from 1954 to 1958, you know, complete revolution was on the table.

GLENN: Stop. Inside that plan was a very radical kernel. Inside that plan was a very radical kernel. What have I been telling you? There are things inside of these bills. It’s why they have been overwhelming the system because inside these gigantic bills there are radical kernels. Now, Van Jones is only one piece of this puzzle. Cass Sunstein is the other. Cass Sunstein is the nudge guy. He is, he’s the regulatory czar. This guy is a genius at flipping switches. He can move this one up by 5%, this one up by 5%, this one up by 8%, this one down by 10%, and nobody knows. But it fundamentally transforms America. See, we don’t know what the structure is that they they have not articulated. This is why people could make the claim that this is a Velvet Revolution because they’re not telling us who they are. They are telling us one thing. But inside that one thing is a radical kernel. Now listen.

VAN JONES: For this country. And I think that this green movement has to pursue those same steps and stages. Right now we’re saying we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to some kind of eco capitalism.

GLENN: Stop. Okay. Capitalism. Suicidal gray capitalism. He’s a capitalist? When did he become a big capitalist? When he was describing in 2008 capitalism as suicidal? Suicidal gray capitalism. The key words are really not even that. The key words are the two words in that sentence. It leads the sentence. What was it? “Right now.” We’re talking about going from suicidal gray capitalism to some sort of eco capitalism. Right now. That’s what we’re talking about. But remember the paragraph before: Inside there is a kernel of radicalism. Right now we are talking about going from suicidal gray capitalism to some sort of eco capitalism. But then he goes on.

VAN JONES: Where, you know, at least we’re not, you know, fast tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Well will that be enough? No, it won’t be enough.

Update 5: Have not found the transcript yet but I did find Jones opening remarks:

Forty years ago today, on April 4, 1968, a sniper assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King had come to Memphis, Tennessee, to aid striking sanitation workers. The preeminent civil rights leader of his time, he was only 39 years old.

Four decades have passed since that fateful day. As of this month, Dr. King has been gone from us longer than he was ever here. As we pass this milestone in history, we gather in Memphis to remind ourselves and the world that a bullet killed the dreamer — but not the dream.

Dr. King had a vision of an America as good as its promise, and a world at peace with itself. That vision lives on in the hearts of hundreds of millions, including two generations of adults and a rising generation of teenagers, all of whom have been born since Dr. King’s passing.

The time has come for us to step forward. We must take full responsibility to advance the cause of justice, opportunity, and peace in a new century.

And yet it must be said that we are stepping onto history’s stage at a frightening time — a time of global warming and global war. A time when “the market” is free and the people are not. A time of mass incarceration of people and mass extinction of species. A time of no rules for the rich and no rights for the poor. A time of increasing profits for the few and decreasing options for the many. A time of buyouts and bailouts for the powerful and convictions and evictions for the powerless.

And yet, inside the United States, the tide has begun to turn.

The GOP juggernaut that carried the nation to the brink of destruction has begun to run out of gas. Ordinary Americans today are longing for a leader, not a cowboy-in-chief. Some are rethinking consumerism, seeking healthier choices for their families, worrying about oil prices and even the climate crisis.

And just three years after George W. Bush’s re-election, the mighty political party that Karl Rove thought would rule America for generations appears to be falling apart at the seams.

Something has shifted profoundly. Unfortunately, all the old political figures, outdated modes of discourse, and stodgy institutions are still with us. But you can feel something exciting beginning to stir — and break loose — underneath.

The future is getting restless. We are on the brink of something promising and new. And for the first time in more than a generation, those of us who value living beings over dead products have a chance to offer real leadership to the country.

Our post-King generations must embrace the example Dr. King set. And we must reimagine it, to meet new challenges.

For example: in his time, Dr. King worked for equal protection and equal opportunity. We, too, must adopt that agenda. But ours is an age of both social crisis and ecological peril. Therefore, we must insist that vulnerable communities get equal protection from racial discrimination — and from the floods, storms, droughts, plagues and fires that global warming is causing. Equal protection today means: no more Katrinas!

Ours is also an age of positive economic transformation: billions of dollars are pouring into the solar, wind, geothermal and other clean industries. This so-called “green economy” will generate thousands of business opportunities and millions of new jobs. We must guarantee equal opportunity in this growing green, clean and renewable economy. We must insist that the coming “green wave” lift all boats. Those low-income communities that were locked out of the pollution-based economy must be locked into the clean and green economy. Our communities — and especially our children — deserve “green-collar jobs, not jails.”

Dr. King — and many others — fought, bled, and died to racially integrate a pollution-based economy. Today, America is creating a new, clean, and green economy. From the start, we must design it to have a dignified place for everyone.

Dr. King linked the solutions of civil rights, peace, and economic opportunity. We must link the solutions of social justice, peace, and ecological sanity. Our new dream must uplift the people and the planet, too. This is the calling of our time.

And so today, four decades later, we seek new fuel to meet new challenges. We seek a world society wherein we use clean, alternative energy sources to fuel our machines … healthy, organic, and local food to fuel our bodies … and hope, solidarity, and love to fuel our movements for change.

Because to win over a wounded and frightened nation, our cause itself must become irresistibly beautiful, vital, healing, and sustainable. Success will come when our networks are practical enough to “organize” hundreds of thousands — and soulful enough to “magnetize” tens of millions. So let us dare to imagine: a healthy, joyous, self-confident liberation movement. A movement that celebrates more than it condemns … inspires more than it critiques … and solution-izes more than it problem-atizes.

Imagine a movement for justice with its arms wide open.

In these “difficult days,” we have a duty to do more than curse the darkness. We must, ourselves, shine a new light.

That is what Dr. King did. And 40 years later, new generations have come to Memphis, bearing lanterns of our own. Through the new organization, Green For All, I am proud to help sponsor one of the major MLK celebrations in this city today.

Here and now, we boldly, proudly, and loudly declare The Dream … reborn.

All emphasis his.

Ok here is a similar statement comparable to the audio. It can be found in an article dated March 29 around a week earlier than the Dream Reborn conference. Apparently Van Jones was particularly fond of the term ‘gray capitalism’.

Who Gains from the Green Economy? - New America Media

Van Jones calls for a historic approach, one that considers the world economy in stages of refinement. “Green capitalism is not the final stage of human development, any more than gray capitalism was. There will be other models and other advances–but only if we survive as a species. But we have to recognize that we are at a particular stage of history, where the choices are not capitalism versus socialism, but green/eco-capitalism versus gray/suicide capitalism. The first industrial revolution hurt both people and the planet, very badly. Today, we do have a chance to create a second ‘green’ industrial revolution, one that will produce much better ecological outcomes. Our task is to ensure that this green revolution succeeds–and to ensure that the new model also generates much better social outcomes. I don’t know what will replace eco-capitalism. But I do know that no one will be here to find out, if we don’t first replace gray capitalism.”

And check this out. It is included in the above article.

“An authentic green economics system is one that would mark the end of capitalism,” notes B. Jess Clarke, editor of Race, Poverty and the Environment. And one that would ensure labor rights and organizing, collective ownership and equality are all at the heart of it, he adds. “The real green movement has not started yet.”

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These mad men must be stopped before it is to late. The bastards can high tail it straight out of the good ol USA and migrate to Cuba or Venezuela. ‘Cause I do not know about you, but I am not hankering for food ration coupons and slaving away in a gov run potato field or worse. With nothing to look forward to but going home to my gov shack and sleeping on a straw bed.

Obama tear down that wall!

Update 2:

This is an interesting nugget according to this article Jones and Nancy Pelosi worked together developing the 2007 Energy Act. Not the same thing but damn close. If true. Why would Pelosi corroborate with a communist leaning character such as Van Jones to help her with the 2007 Energy Act?

Oakland’s program inspired U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to bring the idea to the national level. Jones helped her develop a bill for Congress, and he formed the national Green for All Campaign to rally support. It worked: Congress passed a 2007 Energy Bill that included $125 million for green-collar job training.

Jones also caught the attention of Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Obama.

Oakland’s plan also caught the attention of Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama and former candidate John Edwards, who all talked in campaign speeches about providing green-collar job training programs. Clinton co-sponsored the Senate’s version of the green-collar jobs amendment that made its way into the 2007 Energy Bill. Obama, campaigning in February in the manufacturing belt of the Midwest, proposed a 10-year, $150 million green-collar jobs program.

Do those idiots do back ground checks or did they… Heh. I bet Obama and Jones go way back. I bet Obama was well aware of Jones’ let’s say political attitude long ago.

Update 3:

Bridging The Green Divide
by David Kupfer

Kupfer: Do you feel there is an inherent contradiction between a free-market economy and a sustainable society?

Jones: There probably is. It would be arrogant for anybody to say that twentieth-century capitalism is the last word for humanity; that we will never invent a better way to allocate wealth. But even if capitalism isn’t viable in the long term, there is no way to get to a postcapitalist world except by going through a green-capitalism phase. I think there will be a postcapitalist society. I can’t predict what it will look like, except to say that it won’t resemble the last century’s attempts in that direction. The immediate challenge, however, is to make capitalism as green and humane as we possibly can. Doing that will conceivably buy us a few more decades or centuries on the planet.

Update 4:

More on the Van Jones Nancy Pelosi connection.  Pelosi made the first move.

Also see: Wonderful: “Green jobs” czar Van Jones is a Truther – Hot Air

In which Gateway Pundit does the Googling that Obama refuses to do. Although honestly, at this point I think Jones’s hiring is best explained not as a breakdown in vetting but as a goof by Obama to see just how much crap the media will let him get away with. “Hey Rahm — bet you 20 bucks I can get a Truther communist appointed to an environmental oversight position.”

Update 6: Nancy Pelosi was so enthralled with Van Jones she praised his book The Green-Collar Economy:

The Green Collar Economy
Press Kit: Blurbs and Quotes About the Book

“Van Jones has a unique ability to inspire people of all colors, classes and generations to uplift vulnerable people, while protecting our vulnerable planet. His sparkling intel-ligence, powerful vision and deep empathy are all on full display in the The Green-Collar Economy.”
- Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives

As a bonus here is a review from Senator Tom Daschle

“Once in a very long while, a truly original voice enters our national political dis-cussion–and changes the conversation for the better. By breaking through the old ‘jobs versus the environment’ stalemate, Van Jones does just that. The Green Collar Economy lets us envision a world in which the Earth and everyday people both thrive.”
- Senator Tom Daschle

Previously Van Jones’ (founder of STORM) communist manifesto:  “Reclaiming Revolution: history, summation & lessons from the work of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM)”

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