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Van Jones, President Obama's so-called "green jobs czar," resigned. In order to limit the news coverage, and the damage to Obama, the resignation came in the dead of night over Labor Day weekend.
In his resignation statement Jones falsely claims he was smeared:
I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today.
On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide. [Emphasis added]
It was the truth about the radical extremist things Jones himself said and did that made it necessary for him to leave Obama's administration.
In 2004 Jones signed the "9/11 truther" statement which alleges government complicity in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. Jones is listed as signer number 46 -- "Van Jones, executive director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights." Popular Mechanics has scientifically debunked this now very tired myth perpetuated by the 9/11 Truther conspiracy mongers.
After his association with 9/11 truthers came to light Jones issued an unbelievable statement in which he asserted he did not agree with the 2004 Truther petition and it "does not reflect my views now or ever."
ABC's Jake Tapper reports about another Link between Jones and 9/11 Truther movement:
On Friday a 2002 document emerged in which Jones was on the "organizing committee" of a newspaper called WAR TIMES -- "A New, Biweekly, Tabloid Newspaper Opposing the 'War on Terrorism.'"
The WAR TIMES document asserts that the "world's most powerful nation has mercilessly bombed Afghanistan and is installing a neo-colonial government of its own choosing, although that country has never attacked the U.S. Millions of Afghans have been displaced and face starvation this winter. The administration has also green-lighted massive Israeli assaults on Palestine, and it threatens to attack Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, and other countries. The agenda seems clear: to remake the world in the rightwing image with little regard for human consequences."
WAR TIMES's announcement appeared with the announcement of a protest march demanding a congressional inquiry into whether and how much the Bush administration may have played a role in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
In the New York Times, Sarah Wheaton tried to downplay the fact that Jones was an admitted communist. She writes, "Jones’s involvement in the 1990s with a group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement [STORM] had prompted recent accusations by conservative critics that he associated with Communists. In fact, on November 2, 2005 Jones was quoted in the East Bay Express admitting he was a communist:
But in jail, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist." [Emphasis added]
According to the East Bay Times, STORM held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia. They protested police brutality and got arrested for crashing through police barricades.
More recently video was discovered of Jones calling Republicans a**holes.
In the following video report CNN covered those issues:
Even more of Jones' vile hate filled rants have surfaced that make Jones look as outrageous as Obama's hateful former spiritual adviser Jeremiah Wright and Obama's Terrorist associate Bill Ayers, including a hate-filled record album and a video of Jones calling President Bush a crackhead.
Van Jones was not smeared. He was ousted by the things he said and did.
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Dan and readers, for a professionally documented analysis on 9/11 Truth, read US Intelligence Examiner Fred Burk's article from September 5, 2009: False flag operations.
Allow me to remind us how professionals evaluate claims of fact. The 9/11 Truth Movement claims the government’s explanation of what happened is not credible. Ok; if we want a professional response, we ask for evidence to support that claim in four categories: physical, circumstantial, documentary, and testimony. Physical evidence is the strongest (aware that such evidence can be planted). We then compare the counter-government evidence with the government’s evidence and consider the most rational hypotheses supported by credible evidence and reject those falsified by credible evidence. All of us apply this scientific method to areas where we are competent.
For 9/11 Truth, their physical evidence is supported by over 800 architects and engineers at architects & engineers for 9/11 truth, there are over a thousand professionals who qualify as expert witnesses at Patriots Question 9/11, and peer-reviewed research published in mainstream technical journals is at Journal of 9/11 Studies.
Van Jones was not booted, if I read it right he is still a Czar, but he will left out of the Media line up! How can there be 33 Communist Marxist Socialist lenonists in the White house, almost all are on the FBI watch list most are tied to Bill Aryers the Underground Weatherman, almost all these were on Bushs watch list of subversirves most where on the FBI watch list, 4 that I know of have a arest records 2 where convicted for Domestic Terrorism. Who could these Terrorist commy thugs even get into the White house and who pays them what is their power?
It wasn't just his stance on 9/11. It was his hateful invective against whites. Whites are poisoners, he declared. Only white kids could do a Columbine. He targeted others, as well. Republicans are "as@h@@es," he told America. I don't care if he later apologized. Too late. He lacked an internal filter and babbled on, not realizing or not caring about the nation, the polarity, the crap. He was and is a divisive racist finger-pointer. He is reflective of the Obama administration. The public lacks trust in government like never before as a result.
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