I was astonished that Ventura discussed the Green Movement as a way of making money. Introducing that idea, that “idealism” is an industry, was what I introduced in my first book in 1976. Today you cannot believe how totally naive EVERYBODY was about that in 1976.

Left or right, everybody took it for granted that the only profit motive was in the military-industrial complex. The right accused the left of many things, but NEVER of greed.

A third of a century later, Ventura can use this concept of the Greens as a money and power force without any surprise on anybody’s part.

You would be astonished how this was greeted in 1976. As I said, it was the first time conservative commentators counted the NEA delegates to the Democratic Convention and saw them as financially interested in government decisions.

You could say that was my first mantra. The more I think about it now, the more I realize how similar it was to our mantra now. I was all by myself pushing it.

When the book came out, a lot of people, like the commentators at the conventions, were clearly aware of it for the first time. It was used all over the place. It was successful.

Then they went back to what they had been saying all along, exactly like the pros in the BNP or in the American movement forget our mantra.

It is one thing to be a professional and use the good old philosophy stuff, but something that hits hard can get you into trouble, precisely because it hits hard.

It is hard ball, and our side does not play hard ball. The left struck out at our New Right, a name they gave us to distinguish us from Buckley’s squishes, in a way they screamed about nobody else.

As I said, when our crowd came into Washington in 1981, the media didn’t know any of us. At the 1980 Republican Convention a network followed an old liberal Republican around as he said he didn’t know anybody.

But to the press, this just showed WE were out of step. Six months later, they still didn’t know people who were taking over.

If you watched Back to the Future you will see that they had a cafe there which had Reagan and Khomeini arguing. Today all we talk about is Iran and Afghanistan. When I got into Stormfront, all they talked about was Iran. Today nobody REMEMBERS Khomeini.

While the whole right devoted itself to Khomeini and the Permanent Meat Shortage, I concentrated on the basic point that the more someone talks about Idealism, the more it is a cover for a bid for power and money. Buckley kept arguing respectfully with the left, saying they were just too darned Idealistic.

He was wildly proud to be allowed to associate with liberal icons like John Kenneth Galbraith.

It doesn’t surprise me that it was Ventura who took my point on. He is a Minnesotan and a dedicated liberal. His Republican idol was Lowell Wicker, almost the last unabashed major liberal in the GOP. But he also got elected, so he knows what good staff work looks like. In a whole generation I hit this point so much that one wonders why my first book says such obvious things.

No one is allowed to ask it in the media, but I am sure a lot of people wonder how the Green can AFFORD those enormously expensive ships they send out against the Japanese.

Idealists for the poor don’t spent months and years in costly boats with radar fighting a naval cold war.

But the vast sums of money the left has are one of what I call Public Secrets. The left is supported entirely by huge money donations.

But no one will note the fact that Ventura did not get ANY of the unbelieving reaction I did in 1976 when I accused Buckley’s beloved liberals of going after power and money.

The ground has been sowed.

We are sowing ground now. When the crop comes up, it will be in an altered form and it will probably not be our professionals who reap the benefit. They will still be saying what they are saying now.

But when you get my age, you will get a lot more satisfaction from having planted the deep roots nobody races to you than in being one more repeater of lengthy doctrines everybody has heard a million times before.

In the real world, you can either have your name remembered or your IDEAS remembered. Very, very few can have both. I get the same satisfaction out of watching an offshoot like Ventura’s Green Conspiracy that others get from having their names mentioned.

Most people want to be called by thrilled people who are honored to know them. The one time my picture appeared on the front page of the New York Times, I got all sorts of call congratulating me. I honestly could not have cared less, but it was a thrill for THEM.

Here again, there is a tradeoff. You can have fame OR power. Power is INFLUENCING the way the world goes. If you don’t this stuff for a living it is very easy to confuse fame with power.

Money, fame and power tend to be described by the media as being in the same place. They report on fame, so they naturally try to make the famous powerful, just as a historian tries to trace everything to the Middle East where there are lots of record from dead civilizations.

I keep telling you that you should always ask WHY a piece of information was produced. In the professional media or in professional history, any place or any time, the least important motivation is abstract truth.

I am always a bit taken aback when people ask me about Obama. I answer “He’s black.”

I am even more perplexed when people can’t understand what I just said. There is absolutely nothing you can say that is specific to Obama. He is the mouthpiece of the old New England crowd that is in power now. He is the embodiment of the coat and tie well-spoken “Negro” of 1960s movies.

Take his reaction to the latest terrorist airplane incident. His response was that no one would be allowed to go to the toilet on any airplane within an hour of landing. That is like the response to mass shootings for decades, which was to demand gun control. Every mouthpiece said that.

And now the theme is that Obama has shown his Leadership by banning anyone from “pointing fingers.” On September 11 I stated flatly that not only would no one get fired for that screw-up, I predicted no one would get CRITICIZED. It was a far-out prediction at that point, but everybody has forgotten that.

In fact, if you read my articles on 9/11 and 9/12, you will see that I predicted that not only would no one be fired, I said that everyone in charge on 9/11 would get PROMOTED.

They have.

The doctrine of the Experts when they let a disaster happen is “No finger pointing,” No “blame game.”

For any group of experts, letting a disaster happen is the key to promotion. Sociologists had a tiny field going when they first said criminals were the only REAL victims. Since they dominated the campuses at our willing expense, the crime rate has gone out of sight.

How many sociologists have been fired?

None.

Criminology is a branch of sociology, so hundreds of thousands of sociology majors have been hired to deal with the crime crisis. No sociologist has ever been fired or even criticized for what he said before. Conservatives go out of their way to WORSHIP Intellectuals.

9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to the industry that caused it.

A disaster is the best thing experts can produce if there is No Finger Pointing. So Obama recites their mantra, like any other mouthpiece, and his only solution is, as always, to make rules that restrict citizens even more.

As I have so often pointed out, the only people who prevented that last airline bombing were the ordinary citizens who have to wear their pants around their hips and be barefoot.

None of this is new. Train wrecks killed larger percentage of Americans in 1868 than car crashes do now, and there is no comparison between the percentage who die today and the proportion that took trains back then. In Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain explained why the French death rate per mile on railroads was almost zero while the French trains were as safe as airline travel today.

In France, if trains crashed, a person was ALWAYS responsible. It was all finger-pointing. In America, Twain pointed out, the railway owners always settled for calling it a pure accident, no finger pointing.

In France rail employees were TERRIFIED of crashes. In America they had nothing to worry about. So there were a lot of crashes in America and almost none in France.

During World War II, too many parachutes were improperly packed, which meant death to the troops using them. Then a rule was passed that those who packed the chutes had to JUMP with a randomly selected chute they had packed on a regular basis.

The percentage of improperly packed chutes fell like a rock.

Or like the guy who packed it badly.

So don’t give me the bullshit about how security personnel really are about it so there is no need for finger pointing. Those parachute packers were pumped up with loyalty to the War Effort and were as worried about the welfare of the people who depended on their chutes as security people are, especially the Ivy League crowd that runs Intelligence and the Obama Administration.

But finger pointing, making them jump with their own chutes, got RESULTS that a group that avoids finger pointing cannot get.

Finger pointing works. And Obama’s only message is that he is black.

As the appointment of George Bush, Sr. demonstrated years ago, Intelligence Agencies have been run by career Ivy Leaguers since the Civil War. I have written her about how they have to bring in Irish and rednecks like Yours Truly when they have to DO something.

The head of the Cuba Desk of the Defense Intelligence Agency is STILL in prison for having been an agent of Castro from day one. Now who could have IMAGINED that a leftist Cuban Harvard graduate could possibly have had more loyalty to Castro than to Middle America?

So now terrorists are shooting helpless little SOLDIERS on bases and helpless little CIA operatives. Like the DIA Castro agent, no respectable conservative can declare any of this anything but startling. You won’t see anyone mention any connection outside of Whitakeronline.org.

On campus it is routine for professors to make it clear that they are liberals and Communists are just liberals in a hurry. It has been well known since the first Soviet Embassy came to the USA that practically its only job has been “recruiting.” “Recruiting, recruiting, recruiting,” the former “diplomats said when interviewed in the 80’s, “always recruiting.”

But according to the myth of Ghost Hunting McCarthyism, fifty years of concentrated recruiting did not succeed ONCE!

We do know as a matter of public record hat the Stasi turned EVERY SINGLE West German agent in the Democratic Republic of Germany. But no respectable conservative will ever asked, when this was mentioned, how it was that only Ghost Hunters would say that A SINGLE US government person was turned.

Of course our brief access to KGB files found the names McCarthy said would be on it. Naturally conservatives never make a point of that when liberals are present. Liberals select their “opponents” well.

When I was at the Voice of America, the Voice of the USSR was ever present. I expected it of course. There was a big media blitz about Soviet alcoholism. The reason they were allowed to talk about this very old phenomenon was that Gorbeczev himself was bitching about it.

It wasn’t exactly a secret. As a person who drank himself into recovery, I felt right at home in Eastern Europe and in Russia before and after the USSR. The ONLY thing that was plentiful was vodka.

While Gorbeczev and American media and even some respectable conservatives talked about runaway alcoholism in the USSR, no Russian under the Soviet version of free speech was allowed to deny it. But the New England crowd at the Voice of America certainly did. The bulleting board was FULL of objections to this slur on the “socialists economics.”

VOA got postcards with signatures from behind the Iron Curtain, praising our efforts. The New England crowd POSTED THEM ON THE BULLETIN BOARDS.

One was from Cambodia. I doubt there is even a record of his disappearance now. In fact, this is the only mention you will ever hear of the fact that he EXISTED.

No one today mentions how the Flower Children set up0 phone backs to inform parents of soldiers in Viet Nam that their son had been killed. The Love Generation, you know. No one knows how many East Germans who tried to escape over what is now that romantic Berlin Wall were arrested or shot from information the Love in Germany found out for them.

From the point of view of Traditional True Morality, leftist or rightist, you do not exist.

Those who call themselves Pro-Life aren’t. They have not the slightest interest in future generations. Their interest is total and it is concentrated on the moment the sperm hits the egg. St Paul stated flatly that there shouldn’t BE any future generations.

So if you are wondering what the early Christians thought we should do, now you know.

Our established religion today has come to a similar conclusion. Traditional Morality said we produced sin. Political Correctness says we produce carbon. But the conclusion is the same.

The official British government report which recommended childlessness for all whites added, that it was the best thing we could do for our grandchildren, which is standard rhetoric on environmentalist propaganda.

Somehow I felt that there was something oxymoronic in there.

But when it comes to what I call genetic morality, of which no present religion has any, there was the one case where I completely withdrew from any further discussion right here in our own seminar. I had quoted St. Paul’s’ advice to unmarried women. He said that it would be best if they, like him, never engaged in the sexual act at all.

But, said Paul, if a woman is not strong enough to do what she should and be totally sterile, marriage was the only alternative: “It is better to marry than to burn.”

By “burn,” no one knows whether he was referring to the flames of desire or the flames of Hell. But the Church inherited the concept of Zoroastrianism in its degenerate phase that all sex was sinful. In fact, the present Pope and John Paul have restated that doctrine.

I got a bit of a surprise when SEVERAL of our blog people stated flatly that St. Paul was simply restating Traditional Family Values. If his advice were followed, there would be as few traditional Families, or ANY families, as there would be if the British Government’s environmental sterility program were carried out.

When a discussion really slips off the edge of sanity it is best to leave quietly.