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- Close friend and adviser of President Barack Obama
Valerie Jarrett was born in November 1956 to American parents in Shiraz, Iran, where her father — a renowned physician — ran a children’s hospital. When Valerie was five, her family relocated to London for one year before settling in Chicago’s elite Hyde Park neighborhood in 1963.
Valerie Jarrett’s mother, Barbara Taylor Bowman, co-founded the Erickson Institute in Chicago and still serves on its Board of Trustees. Tom Ayers, the father of Bill Ayers, was a one-time fellow trustee of the Institute. According to WorldNet Daily’s Brad O’Leary, the Erickson board also included Bill Ayers’ wife, Bernadine Dohrn. For his part, Bill Ayers called Bowman “a neighbor and friend” in his 1997 book A Kind and Just Parent, noting that his neighbors also included Louis Farrakhan and “writer Barack Obama.”
Jarrett earned a B.A. in psychology from Stanford University in 1978, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981. In 1983 she married Dr. William Robert Jarrett, son of the Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett. Vernon Jarrett was a pioneering black journalist who wrote columns for The Chicago Defender extolling Communist poet Langston Hughes and lifelong Stalinists W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson. He freelanced at Kansas City’s The Call from 1954-58, then returned to Chicago to become the first nationally syndicated black columnist for the Chicago Tribune, and still later wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times. Mr. Jarrett once sat on a union publicity committee with Frank Marshall Davis, the Communist poet who occasionally counseled the young Barack Obama. When Vernon Jarrett died in 2004, he was saluted in the pages of People’s Weekly Worker, the house organ of the Communist Party USA.
Valerie Jarrett entered Chicago politics in 1987 as Deputy Corporation Counsel for Finance and Development in the administration of Harold Washington, the city’s first African-American mayor. Jarrett’s father-in-law, whom The Washington Post called “a key influence in [Harold] Washington’s decision to run for the Chicago mayoralty,” may have facilitated Valerie’s rise through Chicago’s political ranks.
Continue reading ‘Un-American Activities Report Afternoon Edition: Valerie Jarrett’
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The Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ) is a Washington, D.C.-based charity that promotes opposition to free-market capitalism, particularly in Latin America, under the cover of engaging in “education on human, environmental and worker rights.” AGJ underwrites and publicizes the activities of revolutionary Marxist movements from Nicaragua to Mexico and trains young activists to work toward its distinctly radical conception of “economic justice.”
AGJ’s mission can be traced to its president, Katherine Hoyt. Ms. Hoyt, who holds a Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University, is a longtime apologist and activist with the Nicaraguan revolutionary Marxist group, the Sandinista National Liberation Front. Hoyt has traveled widely in Latin America, spending eighteen years in the region, including sixteen in Nicaragua. Following the Sandinistas’ takeover of the country, Hoyt worked for the Sandinista dictatorship, becoming a translator for its national legislative body. Still a convinced believer in the Sandinistas’ cause, Hoyt has authored The Many Faces of Sandinista Democracy, making the case that the discredited and repressive Sandinista government was actually a model of “participatory democracy.”
Continue reading ‘Un-American Activities Report Morning Edition: Alliance for Global Justice’
Naval History – Nov. 22
1914 – The title “Director of Naval Aeronautics” is established.
Daily Navy Photo – Nov 22 2009
An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Wildcards of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23, delivers supplies to the guided-missile destroyer USS Sampson (DDG 102) during a replenishment as sea. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class David Mercil/Released)
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FYI for Monday
As most regular readers know, LML is moving to http://lmliberty.com Monday. It’s our own site, our own hosting and we did it of our own volition.
This sites comments will be closed at 7 PM tomorrow tonight.
I’m still keeping this site, and there will be an occasional post from time to time. Just in case there’s some technical issues on the new site, this one will be available as our backup.
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