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"the new leviathan" is the name we have given to a left-wing network of billion dollars ral oups and constitute e largest, mt powerful political machine ever assembled. an is n ee intrusivestate, collective rights are individual rights erosion of america's sovreigty and eundemini of r onaldfns fug o se wievanma 115pac have been foundations of $100,000,000,000.9. covati esorcs compare with

cocty 10es s large as the conservative ones. the left is all fantic about the oeosad p m tafs th rhers to a tax-exempt foundation. if assets are $239 million. that may sound like a lot of money, but the ford fdao oh lo uc tokts. of course the gates foundation is three times as large as the ford foundatio laddelatge d rst gnanou it atse i ks ant banks,ut they fnd

neorksofctivt ornion wetangutitly saoft- niioaty fund. the answer to the question of how they got so largeis n part tooeseanver,he lef exe.ndn g y it s was lled a liberal or a leftist. quite the contrary. when hn dsc n boof fdfioe oteers, colaining that the ford foundation had devoted his money veteetrisg --toatckinthe in t f place.

and that's only one. that's the big one, but that is only one. ford fr chlecar,tion as hiciren were neocommunist and they changed the whole rectn ofhe macthur da dteast thutere created by a philadelphia family, depew family, which made its wealth in of ppin eo textremely rightngtea ewbreid a befe eyw tta ohe foundation was succeeded by rebecca broomall who was a nurse

itr iasgtnound at she to ore est x esd i -w foundation. when jacob and i published this book -- it ceotcle a p sorm rjon, scn ewte ofr "wngti a rebecca randall wrote a letter complaining and saying that in haac,itu tt rst of all, w lat under of the tides foundation. the tides foundation is a $1799 foundation formed right to left ofm heato n i'sbsc y venyutgiin your

name for the highchair name to the foundation they can give it to really radical ses. wi id evnee unon wwere once venerable foundation in american public life. it is not only ford, the ckllcegtl sipad, oese le olln i n'entioned the soros foundation. which is twice as big as the biggest conservative foundation 's iool unon i forgot where i was going. rebecca rimbaud -- yes. sahere ls ese

tides in 10 years, not since 2002 except for a $400,000 grant an hihvn dviateverhr om v oous. id this, i said, think of the arrogance of lineso brazenly wn you could just go up on the webnd find out that thewmiced. ss rts hehs a lahiqur a 1 years ago, which wa a series of thy heeoisw transfertaken vrey ata e, s

progressive neocommunist people, whose goal is to dismantle the reteseitt em d sy odial gh diothe pew family mightily complaining. then i sent my research back to e weandidiy d ofrtthew ven iamdola o ie hestpl years. but they are so confident in theiability to get away with lying that theyfefe o . t meen aisnt tesh ti hahek, a o the book are charts. mike bauer did these charts, baioheonethe oatn

nionatryth political work. mike bauerent through0,000 foundation records to isolate these radicaouio n toadies. this is just the tip of the iceberg, however. as i said, these foundations ad litered nr.o c.s. ve aware of her since i got into this field that the th ac aironte un ao hmr ll sw la universe because whenever there is a

debate, i realized this when i dakrr nlyey op29ateck in 2000. it was an initiative and new astute and raise prite lives. now that is your basic oiical te tf te cuec. er a i . republicans didn't want or connolly's initiative on the ballot because that would bring out the left to attack and so forth. so it is oitic d on t oter, an51-c3s ad the naacp and i realized this whole shadow politica uie rr thpolicabateet

ecs. ervetepltic maif you're conservative, this is a very ugly, sleekly interference with coming in now, creaty auacreang th oto adldi ck of your favorite crtors. plt this is where politics tkes 553 -- 553 anti-fre orzas. environmental ese tith caliiond eysega ang and forget whether global warming is something that we need to be concerned about at the moment.

there isaso auectrovsy to etita-e th anizn n- aortitad the solution is massive government control of your life. these are the people who sponsor cap-and-trade, hhtitu tir lc,he c3 at cap-and-trade? well, what these people want to do is they want the government to tell you how often u can turn on your light switch in you' goi to eax solyvrngt s abteeryg. fau tr iur car. it is the greatest threat to individual freedomhat we are facing. orzas tei u viendeeuc

crrethrd da iw worth $149,000 itself, but ford launched it and created. e r 53trt -wennml gatiretxpteye bon in assets. how bigis that? protection agency of t fedal on o sofsge l debate, as opposed to the553, or 32 frark nionta nis. thaso 8li. got 9.5 billion versus 38 million. mike bauer did the arithmetic

for me. th's 2 ie. juhi of the environmental argument. now obama has said -- we told he new yorker" ththe centpiof sd clet i t b wasn't it just -- was it two, three years ago that the leading climate science scntoforer posefookebday lse bee asngin them? would have been in a coup in for 20 years. so you might think this is a little poblematic oasut acde he adstiou ths power.

not only do they have a 9.5 billion in assets, these left-wing foudations, t o puroleatioanny blaesok inonit,hooou thrvi many for environmental organizations, which turns out to be anti-free-market come orza.nnmlroufe at57 mil nnually. so $570 million annual budget for these left-wing organizations. w mu youake i'eaoude itic ies thing wh organizatis. how hae gotten to pint?

ru wti is a great vice president candidate. he is a spectacularfiurei eosiviren t heed- urheet obama'sunilateral amnesty, but they refer to undocumented mits. whhek ht dseplseir me [laughter] th never applied for them. these are illegal aliens. but if politically or rail, at least thatthe way thyel s illn ly raestif le haomro her ty here without going through the process of

citizenship, that is how powerful this newlatn, 11unonthd bon behind them and 553 -- that's on the environment , 11 open brers noi oiv a leryyoe thi happen. the mexican-american legal defense fund is the leading soallemexin aizatio as tug's agroo gatiwhit o. fr oatd edc radical fringe on the immigration, theborders. ths relyfew re imrtanissund

coy.de h atshvehe civization of the culture, which is unique to our shores, orich has evolved over 250 years atwh aeep 's we ti people. mexico has tremendous natural resources, which they've controlled for almost a century. yet t's the baete an iolaltusstue, we pci engine or and that is why so many mexicans want to come hr sohe dinion cizep dictben zend its n e assimilation process and in fact you regard as symbolization as a raist

ths en hnt i hnd ton u haed ld 1970 was a little civil rights organizatn in el pa, texas. and this mandate -- a seto cus,itntuie hi yoed assimilate. you need to become amecans no their political mission was to cure the cli o cue l tman ts lgs, for mexicans who come here,gone through the process and become citizens. , dr 0 foundation tokmliv

ya nthitl nion, moved it to san francisco and washington. now it's another state and tind chand vo tsoys nnlr aree,t'reucn for illegals, you know, don't deport illegal crna itfohellatof cinsan h n t tio debate in the process. and i am simplifying because there's also a rossa. this organization callsit the race, whh tyo atwa trd lmng amana. b hthmrican idea. they want to portray america as coy.ppressive recess nquerig

orzatags ll onheer n of ford is on -- yu know, it is on your docket, other foundati ae adhrlf raaizio ad, morass. i could go down the whole list. the puerto rican legal defense fund is another one, from which jue th t ughe supremecut k rdger ethnicity. and of course, ford is behind the whole multicultural movement thurrlui ut buvettivok

this. the curriculum in our lassrooms across the country is that clcarxwiacaa racist, sexispeiscs ndndnirw in. and it is basically an attack on e very idea of an american civilization and american ltanerdn yow o onet ar/gr, very famous liberal wrote book called muullisatra t veabof society. they would be no multicultural curriculum in the universities ifot for the ford oti.

prenhisae tha ltheh it. barack obama came out of columbia and the first shot he orziicss first community otnaorngrds tinof sorlgi actually. it is religious in the way that jan mi rgt.igious or ese s ralizon osal tt government money into poverty areas. i am going to come back to getting money intopvrty r hepceo because he

already in college, already in high school he was a radical. he was also picked p by the dwacd ese edaar jo aotl for the midwest academy is run by 260s radicals or by heather booth in particular. mupapls n. hi w ta twth gnmun, ventuin and they are very radical. the afl-ciowas takenover by socialists 9 cates.s t cty r t eof socialized, europe style socialist. puemo vte f midwest acdem

co. n ot irawi e es academy. then he was put on the woods fund, a traditional conservate foundation, which was taken by a lexus ff o nst io hevethod nd tebllai a lo ic htend terrorist unrepentant. the basic, bilious is the absolute hatd for america. d heo oranma ouotfr e. a,co, the ost underrated figure in american life. but they were said in thewoods putt amsteptoc da, h bon ar fudno h pp cbi w built. he was trained in the pairs

obama partnership,wnio e nbfd,en le wwmtngvinwihgt mething from the annenberg foundation. this is how conservatives are because walter annenberg was a ths llhltathet gave nbgao s foundation. anyway, the annenberg challenge was a challenge from the annenberg foundation to doa refo in e innecity ol e rmt esid tongnic t to any k-12 students. but he never would have caught the challee money if he had been supported by maathu n eshe onats.

iswocre it after running for president because worded the ground floors for obama's candidacy has ome from in those primaries to beat gomeon andy stern and gave $60 million for the obama camp pain. men 00mpis v$1,n tisic wwe facing. now with wrong with these foundations? frm eralarll,sineehrw isve augea umd greatly expand by balkans conservative

foundations, there's something a ledftndt rof s 0,dien du. we have a constituency and w represent in a way that constituent day. the ford foundation has no cotituent b nede ha paraler profile, which doesn't at all reflagged the views of its founders of the money that need . itst ptuan aratoo. coathave customers. they have shareholders. ey also have cusomers. they have a lot of people they ve l. playoddoot e lmi oths u

pain as someone as they did, which wa to find a terrort organizaon ith poulsenth foreign -- ord foundation cleanup a little mess. i'm sure if theyfede b eye smpl wh hy oerating as they do below the radar, people in the side and are well informed. i think i probably tolyou some thgs you fiutote gsto i lf ahrrified when they put up actually the origins of th ewlviathan cle

sc tets wr miowdieus ctof ubsite, i look and i said fanni ae, freddie mac? ean,here gert itns.eyfu h at? threnyseat eyfnds. radical and tackiness to our system. this is not a mocracy nmre ihhr t moy. i ing h oln. e'nyut obviously. though these foundationsxist under the tax code. the tax code awhy aretey geg mon cathremo t newlrewhe for, that is the

definition. i mean, it is in so many words. e xode au a pocande.rn iw de ti ory id srt pocart that is partisan. that is not the general welfare. well come on. you are supporting yrepg ocalade,open ors. di. ths pic about. said the irs can this redefined with political and less hable kithabl e its it. eree ati oitr we into creating an ideology, multiculturalism and to just live in it. they put up money i mean for ogra hpnd

spic curriculum, which is -- i mean come on to a crassly. i hate america currulum. they curriculutat says amica aeisrit anher way, and i think this is advisable, as descends at these fodati wn of remefun. h fn h board or when henry for the support, an rsolrt exist at. erve so be three big conservative foundations that were boogiemen for the

leftists. one of them was the olin foundation. l on dedimse h ig in doknfaylt da ts trg thing. i want to finish thi by -- i've peven this government versus h eress y ha whdiesvent rao actually? when republicans are put against the wall by leftists, peopl on the left athey sa uf. knreicwl is gvt rais wasteful. we're wasting a lot of money t public schools. we're wasting obama cares incredibly wastefu all this money thats pn tcendtoi

h s gone, which is true. but we are always subject to the attack that we a selfish. yon'reutralways ve h em. yon'ab op knubli c f the's one constituency republicans have come the richest tax ayers. but the argument against that progm., this was a waseful thok worh od us go cause?amny, well, what conservatives need to do is to oi out how government destroy pope,wdeys lp w deysits rawht into action. i will give you just one example

, which is very current, whicithe ur re.r yrsmoseb acadoaavebody should own a house, even if you can afford it. i'm intimidated and put in put inhe last thing, but everyone thats amer d.he huse rd ald nouhe they actually got on buses and hounded bank presidents in chicago. that is what obama's orgaza d nhy prrem cln niti ormoa s for lending, all that had been built up a minor procedures had beenuilt up over wh ylat

hog ishc ist the bottom wasa tp e nclcs. fiiaisamou on tmwst s ndmogehich people held in mortgages, whic people re paying into, which couldn't afford it. okay, woever th isee ntjs tye isnostut rn w f leoteems are the poor people. like in hispanic and alsowait who were nood ogivntyiom eyldaf as en shicno gte ae ye g ve r an ave it taken away within a couple of years actually.

that is an atrocity that prress is mmttedhrugh vent rr gistoo leaiblpoe. ev bigger hit at the black community and also the hispanic community, but the black community and articular pethus s. oe tto o st s teisth black middle-class, of course i'm told by our culture, untold in our culture. in1a-ac mi-c.an 4%. now it'sver 50%. what a story. however, if you are in the rice, if you are just climbing outo isr house.in

the clinton obama inspired deyei,rod it.5% the hundred billion dollars that black mca an riamandws robyntn ob d ahe progressives. that is wh this new leiatn dorehd h eatry sd a , iu t rd it. are responsible for. that is why it is such a threat. it's a permanent ugernautat

elonad hpetewe re national debate and of course the media environment because one thing he learned about journalists as they are . prtetyargo esfome t fed. they get fed by the secondary universe of the 501-c3s battaln they are just lease opiond ma opeat m atershis montrti e and the clintons to smear otneksh r ,e seencand t icrty t g ve teatrees eronlfrpngou hundred billion dollars and

while that african-americans had tho.l they got into thc la >> because we are taped, e are going to ask about le up d ask questis ticon , arrs eaig iu t kaqetn desial e heard. [laughter] surely there must be some bright line. but theirs, yo pposed don erveeirced nion t n op tseheon lists. >> i said this before, the ast, wh includes lils ogivcois di, u,e r

monch te an's sll changes were talking about. they're on a mission to create the kingdom of heaven on earth sociy,retn sless, riskless noerndfo orm,vrth olal tdoret anything. the democrats are in the white house, conservative foundations have to worry. my 501-c3s wasadt ho s etete lewooco a st her has been was cheating on her best with t vast right wi conspiracy comes from the th tenty ts re. ovr reng ae ck t bheof government and i am hoping that

republicans will have the attention pan ndh or mes ally shi outi adr2al'v tanthwan nothing. these foundations were put bck. thnchme amcaop e pl o ills coming here and in competing with them for jobs. but they don't have a vote like thford ountion os. ust. thikhezete ci hny ith this? and maybe one of the bright lights on the horizon. ba bennduahis is the basic tsghf vis sse,

ga, av v a goto control you and yes, i think the citizens united decision was a great decision upot ft hsobouslfr thre on elecs ben elections. it determines the framework. it would've been unthinkable 30 years ago to betling o me irawh u'al als. bon rimiud ck but htgiyono example, which is obamacare. it failed in the clinton administration. wheran aannul, he was gainst it ec isio unpopular. when obama ran, if you remember he said government control is wrong and private is wrong.

righ it bcmehecenerpie mmathedle lean comc . obar is cafoel,that is the door to the socialist future this totally ideological. not litil in themal thh,en w by these foundations described in the book but these fudns exio tiltesi da,t he pe ouseld free enterprise. how did that i've take over those organizations? wh iinsd fyou an examplooe

as fat abin foundation commented daniel simon colorado, which we mentioned in ourbo. cova ma.y and the people who -- the board wanted to run a professional foundation. so where do they turn? the ford foundation because te rdegn a oo whsto etst ha tnoeo o the board. we applied conservative applicants,o ismsed soo apd arstau h. because there hasn't been enough publicity about what the ford foundation actually does and what these other foundations do.

that isifio i uob. al g tfm ero astayed the didn't make the money. they probably feel guilty for it'sot jt egit. i l guitay b le h prt no e rockefellers, you know, were a pretty conservative aerican family. peter collier and i did a book iiiesens yes efr, whe ospo the university of vermont. he said i am a socialist now he's the head of the rockefeller brothers fd. ich ug ondio infu aif

>> how would one safeguard against -- ifr lngont think youycn fosnsegnsne unon you can't foresee was going to go on for two, three generations. that is why i like theie i'ussa solal llyo noio taept he got to just give to charity, which should be hospitals. you know, i don't want to devse a rorm iland stding here. coure leca keca, ihn that's the basic solution. and the others who got to send that appear yu can' have bo exist in perpeity. d whats th proem wh

alqu iawayhiou a youco as ldanl f these groups mma. recently we have this declaration by mr. obama. there's two parts to this. can yo reflec on hym as ogamiio hy heantat o y o someone who was brought here when they were eight and wouldn't it be nice to be nce to them? to an atta about emergcy room is ed wh ilgals th oisurvetsublic bsesrcs baecau i w ak en may, just throw weomuni, ng my rent rt . ers "wngpo tibyhotah

steam, who was told this simple truth, the 99% of the people who mccarthy interrogated were comnist. m tthert anatl pi. wd ico e he war. they wanted one of the most monstrous regimes in history to triumph over america. so whatever else you can say i'ri ccaufe wasono ous method. he discredited the cause. but the fact is it was a huge internal communist threat. but hlf th e l, t communists. i didn't watch it, but i came across a two-hour celebration of the communists packed main peace seer who bill clinn ga hi

0 cipafaeina hih is what you will learn and many liberal arts college practically the country today. that is the problem. sc. ople in thee r whs g ae c ere'twin ng n one is they are scared. they don't want to be tarred and feathered, which happens to anybody. the od news hat our kids in college, the ons that bernrend atd ouero getoolits, congress and media. th has happened already. there's a whole generation of young conservatives o aren'ttite thmn t nstiar cd be. acabee will be cast into the nether regions. i can tell you when i left the

left, the most difficult part of it was losing every friend i ev had i fe. d iatpsm e. iy thnmllg l eng shon lee so rude and so uncivilized as the msnbc people re i bseke opn wiure a.c it i'ee treroom at bob eel, who has told me that he watched a e siicaneaefge k io dr k esjcnce jckn was threatening to extort him in the business. as you probabl now, jee bot dtnsy reino at lteds

ceiv $30 million -- a $30 million distributorship for his sons. this extortion, iimidio stha hld thusd snan rt s fw-o t which is i wonder if mitt romney would understand that most of america -- i'm worr. n okrsms er pe a hexe wwao a c abevsi at illegal immigration could they get no information about it. i wonder if you think that meacly ivemo tititio thths. t r k fwe atoi on. the other is americans will never hear that. if romney were to talk -- he

thrwod such a storm of attacks of its biggest tree in this and not i would never hear the facts. you never hear f u ju e ahn af hot t iouare a serious problem with organizations in america, like care of the muslim american society and theasoy ormic d e liroho weilmi cs al over the web. if i were running for office, it thuld be a death seenigh

it t don't expect that romney to come out swinging on that. and marco rubio knows all of pocasut theyendth let.ro byr meisomte leftist. whe that process, there is a problem. i think we have ma progress on

beneadr can win in november? >> his political advisers? think he is doinverywe. i'te .oin owe t. jim tallon, tevi troy, bt i don't know who his pitical handlers are. th imithou u. >> as somebody who came out of myenertmeui grew hegrow

of the communist pty but anybody who called those progressives were pro-soviet. we were ttd. out whei ynod er targets. and we were quarantines. that was a good thing for the country. it was a very good thing r the country. iwahed eeb tew ftorhin liomdet o e people who formed the new left were communists. and i watched us break out into e mainstam and tewh thhemmtst t mat rt th the mcgovern campaign and mcgovern was supporter of henry wallace, the communist party progressive candidate in himlf, d aedm

anatgh h pot s avat grassroots year in year out moement. ther has never been one since i became ansti untithaary. prmst erveve hevel likes, nlike leftist. they have real lives and they are going into the private ctor whenou d aines yon't nt taliete od cat ou'twa t vo etgske politics. so i didn't think for a while that it would ever happen but it has happened. bee now bear in tzipis

and fascist arrangement with the state was being threatened. that is what they think about the unions eye a sanglol t onh b e.avtheihand eyd rpti ch of ay thaihearof hei members to be totally corrupt. they have absolute contempt for the democratic process. they pick eft, d th gr w crvese thes and that is the bright spot. i think that obama has put fear inrdy icwh dend nia hee rpym, thstfndividual rights and who will hold onto those american values against the left. so i'm expectingig things to [aus iytl

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f an be learned to apply to troubled areas of the world. gevnd lctot over an hour. norciyby. tbhera o library and an event during national library week,which we are celebrating here ate cioflira gyoulaei we apld v lkomok mpa thtoaywil recording this event for future broadcasts. as we began, let me ask you to please if you have a cellp, ger anying ectni apiat.grilc tonight, i am especially honored to have two very loyal society library membe speak to us about their newboo,

eta"re hivty ee isbylifahe nk. karl meyer and shareen blair brysac have been members of this library since 1974. aus ums s,ch het f or er om i would like to take a moment to mention that the last time they spoke for us in 2008, they lked ab thir boo make, inion t reinrtt t sie yo the new book, "pax ethnica," has received early praise. the winnipeg fre press writes, nopeisn so ncil n ele bee headf ucttentng ffo ug. kirkus reviews calls it a good

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